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    please help me identify these baby chicks

    What are the different possibilities? The top 2 could be many breeds, but the 3rd looks like it has stripes down the back like an easter egger or ameracauna. The white could be a white leghorn. Once they get real feathers, it will be much easier to tell.
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    Why not spoil them?

    "Beekissed" from here taught us all years ago to ferment our feed for our chickens. I use various feeds; right now it is milo, oats, corn, and black sunflower seeds. Cover with water and add a glug of apple cider vinegar for overnite ferment or let it sit for 3 days to make its own "vinegar"...
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    Parasite eradication

    I use lots of 7 dust on the floor of my coop and broom it into the cracks and crevices as well as in the nesting boxes. then I additionally add some diatomaceous earth to the nesting boxes as well. In six years I've never had mites. Of course I put wood shavings on top of it and the one thing I...
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    HELP hens abdomen swollen and not sure if she’s egg bound

    Well it's been more than a month since you wrote this. I'm guessing she has died by now. I had a hen that developed an enlarged abdomen on both sides over a long period of time without acting at all different except no eggs. I gave her 2 kinds of antibiotic to no avail. I gave up taking chickens...
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    Pop Quiz!!! Barred pattern with brown parches, large comb and funky head feathers!!

    The crest looks like a crested cream legbar allright, but they normally have large combs that flop over sorta Veronica Lake style, so he might be a girl.
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    To wash or not to wash eggs? That is the ?

    Hi, I have not posted for years. Chickens will not become egg eaters. If the shells are thin and their weight breaks an egg, they will eat it. People around the world do not refrigerate eggs. They will keep for many weeks. If you doubt it, mark one with a date and check it 5 weeks later...
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