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Originally Posted by Flaming Chicken 

I'll trade for cream legbars.  Already looking at coops on craigslist.  I thought I was done .

I'm afraid we are never done...

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Originally Posted by FlyRobinFly 

Say Carol, I may have some Silkies that will need new homes in a few months.

 

Just paying the enabling forward!

Thanks!  Feeling the love. 

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Originally Posted by FlyRobinFly 

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Originally Posted by Cloverleaf Farm 

Cute chicks!  But I'd get them off that newspaper asap...it's way too slick, and you're likely to end up with some spraddle leg to deal with...

Gah! I had read somewhere that they should be on newspaper the first couple days to *avoid* spraddle leg. Rats! Thanks Cloverleaf.

I do have soft white shavings that I brooded all my other chicks on.

  Yep - slippery = spraddle. 

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Originally Posted by FlyRobinFly 

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Originally Posted by Cloverleaf Farm 

Cute chicks!  But I'd get them off that newspaper asap...it's way too slick, and you're likely to end up with some spraddle leg to deal with...

Gah! I had read somewhere that they should be on newspaper the first couple days to *avoid* spraddle leg. Rats! Thanks Cloverleaf.

I do have soft white shavings that I brooded all my other chicks on.

Even paper towels would be fine since they're grippy and not slick. HTH! (I did mine on paper towels for the first week so they could learn to eat the feed and not the shavings, then switched to shavings)

I sent an email to three of my friends BUT I should have asked on here

 My chickens can get under the barn. when we had two ducks they too could get under the barn but had no contact with the chickens under there. they had their seperate runs. I haven't had the ducks for over three months. I want to let a new group of chickens use the duck run. My concern is that maybe the duck poop will be a health hazard to the chickens? anybody know for sure??  I can't really get under there to clean it out. the ducks were outside in the day but would go under the barn at night

Thanks for any idea's

WOW...I get busy for a few days and come back to 584 posts.  Yah....I think I will just jump in now and not try to play catch up.

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Originally Posted by VelvettFog 

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

Wow, thanks for the awesome offer! I will remember that :)  How does one go about transporting a couple dozen fat and full grown birds for the slaughter?

Zip tie their little feet together, and put a small black hood over their heads so they cannot see :)

that's one way to do it - actually close to what a friend does. He uses empty feed sacks (not the plastic ones, the woven ones) and just stick the birds in those.

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Originally Posted by drumstick diva 

Early 50's our neighborhood in Chicago still had the milk delivered by a guy in a horse drawn wagon. What a treat for a city kid, wow, a real horse.   Okay, way past my bedtime - setting the stage for another crabby spell  Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Last time I was back in Scotland (12 years ago) milk was STILL delivered daily. I remember being wakened every morning by the crunching of boots on the gravel outside the bedroom window as he cam up to put the bottles on the doorstep.

Funny thing, they have started to deliver fresh milk and eggs round here, but it's a tad pricey!

When I was little, we had a rag-and-bone man who had a horse drawn cart. He would come each week and we would give him all our "junk" (rags and bones!) and once he gave my sister a little chick and some goslings. Funny thing though, they disappeared round Christmas.

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Originally Posted by Chickielady 

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Originally Posted by cflaming 

I was gonna say, if Kim qualifies as an old codger...I hate to think what that qualifies me for.  Hopefully, I don't fart dust. 

Farting dust can be a good thing, verses the alternative.   

They say you shouldn't hold the farts in or they travel up your spine and into your brain and that's where S*'****E ideas come from.

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Originally Posted by RonB 

I sent an email to three of my friends BUT I should have asked on here

 My chickens can get under the barn. when we had two ducks they too could get under the barn but had no contact with the chickens under there. they had their seperate runs. I haven't had the ducks for over three months. I want to let a new group of chickens use the duck run. My concern is that maybe the duck poop will be a health hazard to the chickens? anybody know for sure??  I can't really get under there to clean it out. the ducks were outside in the day but would go under the barn at night

 

Thanks for any idea's

Ron, we keep all our birds together and have done for some years. no problems yet!