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    The Craigslist Life: A rant, a joke, and a few observations on the human condition.

    It's bird selling season again so once more into the Craig's Life. Five e-mails came in over the course of one night. All of them from different individuals expressing interest in buying the sex-link and Leghorn pullets I had available. Dutifully answered all five e-mails including calling...
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    Sorry about taking so long to reply but I just came across your post. Here's a link to a gallery of step-by-step photos of the way I build my tractors. It's not a 100% complete photo set, but the best I can offer at the moment...
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    How many Eggs did you Sell today?

    Been holding steady at more-or-less 30 dozen a week for several months now. We're as big as we care to get so we're going to try to stay right where we are.
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    Chicken Poll for Small Business

    Six layer tractors Three grow-out tractors. A rooster pen A fixed (static) henyard. Not sure how many total birds I have at the moment. Call it 100 or thereabouts. We sell table eggs and started pullets.
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    Blue eggs a virus?

    The link to the Virology Blog the PopSci article was developed from: http://www.virology.ws/2013/09/11/a-retrovirus-makes-chicken-eggshells-blue/ As I am reading this a retrovirus originally inserted the gene that causes blue eggshells. The gene is then reproduced as chromosomes divide in the...
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    Olive eggers from this group?

    An EE rooster over a Production Red or Barred Rock hen will likely give you a daughter that will lay moderate to dark green eggs. At least at the beginning of the lay cycle. Towards the end they'll grow lighter as any olive egger will.
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    NEW! Just Seen On TV! Plant Based Powdered Eggs... EEEWWW.

    There have been recipes for egg substitutes around for years. You can find many with a simple Google search. Nothing new about any of this. Some folks have egg allergies. Others have philosophical problems with eating eggs. Egg substitutes give them a way to prepare recipes where eggs serve...
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    Do buzzards take chickens?

    Uncommon for a vulture (buzzard) to take live prey. But they can definitely be attracted to a chicken carcass left behind by the predator that killed it.
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    How long before my Amercaunas & Welsummers start laying?

    Generally between 20-24 weeks. Commercial birds typically between 18-20 weeks.
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    Feed Mix

    Straight layer feed, no corn, offer the grit and/or oyster shell on the side so they can get it when they want it. Layer feed is a balanced feed. If you mix a lot of corn into it you will make it an unbalanced feed. If you just want to give them corn/scratch feed then half of a hand full per...
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    Food types and when to feed

    This isn't a complicated issue. Chickens are pretty forgiving when it comes to feed (within reason). Basically it's like this: Chick starter from hatch to about 8-10 weeks. Grower from about 8-10 weeks until you find the first eggs. Starter/grower (a combined feed many mills make) from...
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    Why are my hens so chunky?

    If they are free-ranging all day and are laying well I would not worry about it. They're just healthy. Keep the cracked corn to no more than half a hand full per bird in the morning. Otherwise they are the way they are supposed to be.
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    What kind of a chicken person are you? With a poll.

    I'm probably in the minority on this board in that I keep my birds for only practical reasons. I suspect that most folks would answer yes to at least two of the three categories.
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    How long is a moult?

    Is he in with a flock of hens and what precisely are you feeding them?
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    Will it hurt my girls if I feed them the starter for two more weeks?

    You could feed them starter forever if you want to. I've known several old-timers over the years never fed their birds anything but 21% chick starter and they seem to do well. That said though it is more protein than older birds really need and it is more expensive so you can move over to...
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