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    Best varieties of garlic you've grown in zone 9a

    Chop them up & add to stew...sorry it didn't work.
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    I have a 4 month old EE pullet that will be on the first sale post this fall because everyday I have to make her go out (she hides) and then I have to go out and bring her in. She'll run up and down along a 3' section of fence trying to get to the feeder and can't understand that one more foot...
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    lost a brown leghorn hen & 4 chicks to a snake (warning, dead hen pix)

    I have never seen a bull snake down here (South Louisiana).
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    lost a brown leghorn hen & 4 chicks to a snake (warning, dead hen pix)

    Might have been. I have actually never seen the movie but every year my gym does a special Memorial Day Murphy workout in honor of that. I think Murphy may have been the one who sacrificed himself. The name was just stuck in my mind from the planning for the event.
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    lost a brown leghorn hen & 4 chicks to a snake (warning, dead hen pix)

    Thank you all for the condolences. I usually have broody mamas & chicks in a pen inside the main coop but this hen was such a butthead (sorry to be speaking ill of the dead) that I couldn't put her with any other birds. This has been a crazy year for snakes, I usually see 2 or three all year but...
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    lost a brown leghorn hen & 4 chicks to a snake (warning, dead hen pix)

    This is what a snake (probably a rat snake) can do. This was a year old full-sized brown leghorn hen with 5 x 2 week old chicks. They were in a metal dog kennel with extra smaller wire around the lower 2 feet and a plastic tarp cover. This kennel is inside a fenced yard with 3 grown livestock...
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    My #1 reason to sell a pullet or hen is inability to get in the line-up! I have sold birds that cannot seem to figure out how to turn the corner and go to the gate area.
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    Buff breeds

    My minorcas have white earlobes.
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    I only feed mine in the evening. In the morning when I go to the pen, they all rush to the gate to go out to pasture. They have 100% access to the coop/nest boxes all day until feed time. In the evening I go in the coop and say "Out, Out!" and they all are trained to leave the pen while I put...
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    Review by 'alwaystj9' in article 'Broody Breaking ala aart'

    Eggcellent article and good pictures!
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    Day old McMurray Rare Assortment

    They didn't tell you what breeds on the shipping label? Mine had each breed and how many of each on the box label.
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    White vs. Brown leghorns

    Either Ideal or Mt.Healthy, not sure which, they were hatchlings.
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    Treated with corid and still has runny poop

    If you don't know how to run a fecal analysis, check and see if your vet can/will run one and how much it would cost. Or maybe you have a vet school nearby. I have fecals done at my vets for $25 or at LSU Vet school for $18. This will tell you if the problem is cocci, another worm or maybe you...
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    White vs. Brown leghorns

    I have had white leghorns off and on for years. Very active, incredibly productive and usually non-broody. I kind of quit buying them on purpose because they seem to be the #1 target for predators, especially night predators (It's no joke: white birds go first). Last year I bought a dozen brown...
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    Murray McMurray problems anyone else?

    I tried Murray McMurray for the first time this year as they had some breeds I couldn't find elsewhere. I placed the order in February and coordinated hatch dates for 3 different breeds: Anconas, Minorcas & Fayoumis. Ship date was in April. Chicks arrived 2nd day after hatch with 1 DOA...
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