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    How To Humanely Euthanize A Chicken..

    I remember when I was a little kid, I was out making a snow fort. I was out there for a long time, and I got really sleepy. When your body temp drops, you get sleepy. I laid down to sleep (would have died) and just then my mom realized she couldn't see me any more from the kitchen window...
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    Strangest and Silliest Chicken Names?

    I also had a big turkey we named "Turkulese" and he had this really nasty wife, she must have been jealous, mean all the time, so we named her "Mrs. Peckerhead" eta: look on my blog for my story about my rabbit "Bunnificent" - he truly was.
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    Strangest and Silliest Chicken Names?

    We always seem to get a house chicken, one that either hatches late or gets nursed in the house and just decides that by the back door is where they live. Or worse, insist on coming back in. We usually set up a station for them, like a stool inverted with a paper towel in the center, not that...
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    Crested Wood Partridge

    They also like to fly up and perch at night, preferring a tree or something with cover, and I forgot to say that they talk to you all the time, like trills or soft whistles, you can pretty much judge their moods any time.
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    Crested Wood Partridge

    In this instance, both the father and the mother raise the babies, it's recommended that you have some button quail chicks if there's no mother and father around, because they have to be taught to eat and scratch. If you haven't raised these before, I can tell you from experience that there is...
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    What species of quail is this?

    Crested Wood Partridges, Roulroul from their latin name, something like roullus roulroul. Great Birds.
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    It worked!! Coop security alarm went off last night and....

    I just need to find one that can ignore my 3 cats!
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    Lost almost my whole flock of button quail * PICS ADDED * ( not gross

    I have 4 cats, and if you have chickens, they usually teach the cats pretty well. It usually applies right on thru to your other birds. No cat has ever messed with a baby here. omg i hate raccoons. They leave parts.
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    Lost almost my whole flock of button quail * PICS ADDED * ( not gross

    I lost 2 of my buttons last night, and a silkie that slept up by the house, time to get my raccoon trap out. I don't know if cats kill as ugly as raccoons do, but I am now going out with hardware cloth, to line the bottom couple of feet of the cage outside. The raccoons and the cats, I would...
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    Can a broody duck hatch a chicken egg?

    Yes, the 10 day extra span the duck eggs take to hatch is way too much for the chikn baby, much less the less resilience of the chick than the duck, and luckily for him/her, we don't have a swim bucket out because of the chickens...the duck flies to a pond behind our house, usually for that. If...
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    Can a broody duck hatch a chicken egg?

    I have a muscovy duck that just hatched a chicken! I don't know what she will do, leave with it in time to feed it or what, but I was considering taking it and putting it in the brooder, but what if she leaves her eggs?? THEN i was considering taking the eggs and putting them in the incubator...
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