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    Comment by '1zooman12' in item 'Silkie'

    Silkie hens are about the best of mothers for chicks. After she hatches her own 6 or so chicks you can add chicks which have hatched in synchrony just pop a brace of 18 eggs of any preferred bread in the incubator. The two groups should hatch within 24 hours of each other. Add the incubator...
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    Hello from Northern California!!

    Hello Gita, and any of you Nor Cal folks, I address you Gita as you seem to be online now according to your latest thread. Do any of you you of anybody in the northern California region who would hatch (broody or incubator) a brace of about 2 dozen eggs on shares? Half are White Silkies and...
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Folks who believe that there is a gain to be made by fermenting chicken feed are ignorant of fundamental chemistry. This evaluation is fundamental and the evidence is empirical. Give it up for you are wasting great sums of your own resources and finances if using this practice; and while you...
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    Alert, egg laying hen can't stand up. What could be wrong?

    Hello Jessica, The symptoms you describe, while very clear cut, are tough to define since we have not one clue as to the cause. Many states, and counties therein, have an agricultural research laboratory strictly for barnyard fowl. Also there is usually an Agricultural Extension Service...
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    6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

    If the US Army issued eggs yours would be the haplotype, I'm betting! Olive drab for sure. Still, it is green enough to go well with ham. So, you might call it a Dr. Suess egg… Sorry about your losses; predation? I missed that part of the communication. What did you mean by the expression...
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    California - Northern

    Will somebody in the BYC hierarchy look into this problem, please? Up until about 4 days ago, I have been receiving in my e-mail Inbox the latest activities such as California Northern and other threads in which I am interested and to which I have been contributing to threads in which members...
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    California - Northern

    Hi Gang, again, Chris (caychris) is my good friend and partner in a chicken research venture. (And that is my incubator he is sabotaging!) (LOL) Wish him all sorts of good luck and sympathize or empathize as is your want. He will need all the moral support he can get! He's a great chap...
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    California - Northern

    Hi All, It looks like a prolapse adorned with a bit of coop poop. (Could not pass up the pun!) Okay, let's get serious. In large animals we treat such with a coke bottle filled with ice water. The we dip the thing in water and then dust it with sugar. This gadget is then used to shove the...
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    California - Northern

    Oh h2oratt… You are one of the misnomerists I see. Read the label. When we mispronounce a word we often misspell it. So there is no such thing as Vetricyn; and I'll bet you are mispronouncing it too. It is ve ti re cyn, as in Vetericyn. Four syllables and NOT three. Help us call a halt to...
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    California - Northern

    Hi h2oratt and Audio51, and interested others, A slight clarification if you will permit it. There is no such thing as the 3 syllable Vetricyn. The product has 4 syllables Vetericyn as in Ve - te - ri - cyn. I think this mispronunciation comes about as an offspring of the 6 syllable word...
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    California - Northern

    Although I was a vet tech for some time back in the late 50s and early 60s from reading the labels I can tell you good folks the following: Vetericyn, pron. ve te ri cyn, and NOT ve tri cyn, is a topical agent comprised of one active ingredient, Hypochlorous Acid. It is a weak acid and is...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Hello JR Nash, Yes I have a favorite incubator; two favorites in fact: 1) small - the Chinese Silky, best incubator and momma of them all and 2) large: the Polish, also a great incubator and momma too. These do not need plugging in to a wall receptacle, fine tuning and you dare not mist them...
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    Delawares from kathyinmo

    Hello Leslie, Certainly you jest about all the preventive havoc you would invoke to keep away the predator types. You could have been General Sherman's adjutant as he marched through Georgia (LOL). Seriously, wouldn't a day duty dog be enough? Bringing the pooch in after all the vulnerables...
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    California - Northern

    I cannot personally affirm this because I have never had turkeys except for the politician who moved to a house adjoining my ranch in the rear. Since his feathers are not entirely visible, he does not count in this thesis. (LOL!) Speaking of neighbors, I did have one tell me that in...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Hi Folks, That broad breasted bird of Red Nugget, no matter what it really is, is definitely no Leghorn. I'm with Ralphie on this one; most likely a Cornish Cross monster of some sort. I don't understand why we are prone to so much speculation when a few more weeks, maybe 6 or so, will prove...
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