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    Whats your carbon footprint?

    Well, I did both of those... First of all, I have a family of 7 (Me and my three kids and my DH and his two kids - only needed one more boy to make the brady bunch, lol) and we eat meat every day - though much of it we grow ourselves... and we have plans to make us pretty self-sufficient...
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    Lights, Winter and egg laying

    Hi there, the kinds of chickens I have should all be listed in my signature - save me from typing it again! I'll have to check whether any of them are good winter layers. Thanks, Becky
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    Lights, Winter and egg laying

    Hi there! I just read through this whole post... came on to look for hints on why my chickies aren't laying, I'm averaging 2-4 eggs a day out of 6 71/2-mo old WLH's and 18 assorted 6 1/2-mo old hens (and a 2 yr old banty and a few roosters) The banty's haven't laid in over a week. One WLH...
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    Pigeons for sale in NY

    2 adults, not sure on ages, tags say 2007, male and female. Excellent breeding pair. Their first set of eggs, now a male and female 3 months old. This is the female, the male was flying around. And their single egg, now 3 weeks old. I'm not sure what 'breed' they are; I bought them...
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    If you have different breeds,

    I have a bunch of different breeds, and I've noticed with mine that some do and some don't. The brown leg horns keep pretty much to themselves, a little group always hanging together. And now that they're pretty good sized, my permanant chickens want nothing to do with any of the meat...
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    Fed up with water founts

    I just got a basic metal 3-gal waterer from Agway the other day. It's the double layer one, that you pull off the top and it still looks like a metal bucket with a handle. It's got a rubber seal on the inside that only opens when the top part is all the way on. So far I love it, it lasts my...
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    What is this white hen?

    That is a white leghorn - pullet by the looks of it - looks just like my 6 girls who are aobut 9-10 weeks old.
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    An insight into pigeon behavior?

    Well, here's what I did. First I tried putting them in a make-shift cage in the shed next to the chicken coop. They got out.... took a few hours to persuade them out of the darn tree! lol So tried putting them in with the chickens. Very unhappy pigeons! And very peck-happy chickens. So...
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    An insight into pigeon behavior?

    Any ideas?
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    **White Leghorn Contest** ENDED!! Results Soon

    It can't decide whether it wants to rain or not... so I brought one of my leghorns in the house! lol She's about 9 weeks old.
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    Do your kids have chores?

    I haven't read all the posts yet, but just wanted to add my two cents, for what it's worth. Between my fiance and I we have five kids (12, 11 and 5 yo girls and 9 and 10 yo boys). Chores are madatory in my house too. We started out paying $20/each per month (cept the 5yo who got $10). This...
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    An insight into pigeon behavior?

    I have two adult pigeons, rollers. Their first set of babies are about 2 months old and they just hatched another egg 2 days ago. I did have them all together, was going to seperate them when the eggs were laid but didn't b/c the young ones were helping sit on the eggs. Now I've just...
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    Is it safe?

    That's a good idea! I want to know if it's safe too!! I've got six 6-week old white LH's that I can't tell apart and 4 younger brown ones that I can't either!! What have you got?
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    Help! Rickets?

    Poop is good, mostly brown with a little green tint. I don't take the feeder away per se, it's just empty by morning (everyone gets fed once a day, in the evening). Just FYI, I have 27 chicks in one very big rabbit cage, 12 of which are cornish roasters, the rest a variety of layer chicks and...
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    Going on a short vacation, what to do?

    I wouldn't think so. I just had to go away for three nights for a training for work and had someone come over once a day to feed/water/check on everybody. I have 6 5-week old chickens out in the coop. They usually finish their water every 24 hrs or so... maybe it would depend on the size of...
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