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    Backyard Brahmas!!

    Back in March when I got my order from Murry McM my free exotic chick turned out to be a Dark Brahma. One our daughters named her "Moth" because as a chick our daughter said that she had the coloring of a Moth! Now here we are about 4 1/2 months later & we've got this super big, gargantuan...
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    Comment by 'bigscottk' in item 'Red Sex Link'

    They don't make egg cartons big enough for 105 gram eggs! Tell your girls to lay you a dozen or so of those at county & state fair time! Grand Champion eggs for sure!!!
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    Food: Love, So-So, & Blah!

    Pumpkin? when our kids carved their pumpkins this year I took all of the scraps out to our girls. They picked through everything & ONLY ate the seeds. Guess I'll have to take them a pumpkin pie with Cool whip!
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    Review by '' on item 'Red Sex Link'

    Our friends are blown away by how huge the eggs are that our Red Sex Links lay! You can't buy that big of an egg in the store & good luck trying to find a carton to hold the eggs! Our girls are 3 1/2 years old & still going strong! Very docile too! Not sure why people say they don't tolerate the...
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    Food: Love, So-So, & Blah!

    Thought this might be kinda fun! Here are my lists of foods my chickens love, are so-so on, & turn their beaks up on. Keep in mind we're on a shoestring budget so our girls get lots of scraps & such. Interested to see others lists! LOVE! 1: Any creepy, crawly critter! 2: Hot dogs! Battle...
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    GIGANTIG eggs from 3 1/2 Year Old Red Sex Links!

    Chuckling here too. Yea, our older girls are my pets too! I'm not sure who's spoiled more... Me by my wife or our older girls by me! I've got some pretty high quality cat food I bout at Petsmart for our Manx cat. I'll have to try hand feeding that to our older girls & see if they don't plump up...
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    GIGANTIG eggs from 3 1/2 Year Old Red Sex Links!

    What do you think about el cheapo dog food? Not much in it besides corn, fat, & a little meat & bone meal. Cheap too! I could crush the big chunks up a little so they could eat it. Hmmm...???
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    GIGANTIG eggs from 3 1/2 Year Old Red Sex Links!

    Thanks! Interestingly enough we've got a couple of small breed dogs & we keep their feed bowl by the door that goes out to the back yard. When I let those girls run around the back yard & I open the back door they make a mad dash into the house for the dog food bowl which we keep stocked with...
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    GIGANTIG eggs from 3 1/2 Year Old Red Sex Links!

    This spring I bought some new chicks because I figured I wouldn't get many more eggs out of my Red Sex Links which are now 3 1/2 years old. Guess I was wrong & glad of it! I'm still getting a 75+% laying rate out of the old girls which wouldn't be all that great except for the fact they lay some...
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    Girls Won't Shut Up!

    "Ah man! "Teeth!" You "Beaked" me to the punch line!!!"
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    Girls Won't Shut Up!

    I tried bubble gun & it didn't work. Now they blow all of their squawking into one big bubble & when the bubble pops it all comes out at once really loud in one big cacophony!!!
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    Girls Won't Shut Up!

    I purchased 10 new chicks to supplement my 3 year old Red Sex Links this spring. I bought 5 Barred Rocks & 5 Buff Orpingtons. Here's my problem, The Red Sex Links are sweet wonderful old girls who barely make a peep. The Buff Orpingtons are probably the quietest chicken I've ever seen. However...
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    How to tell if an egg is good....

    Does it matter if you use cold water or warm water? I just went out & found 40 eggs & I thought that we only had 5-6 girls laying. We've got 9 more girls that should be close to start laying but I didn't think they were ready yet. We've been steadily getting 4 eggs per day out of the nesting...
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