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    POLISH THREAD Talk about your Polish and post pics of your Polish

    The Earl's mom is a RIR and some how he's getting a muff...??? Not sure how but I like it!
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    POLISH THREAD Talk about your Polish and post pics of your Polish

    This is Lord Godiva And his son Earl of Jackson Creek
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    Dog killed my chickens, I killed the dog

    My very first 4-h project was a banty hen Miss Cluck. I had her in a small coop in the back yard for over 2 years. I would sit in her house and do my home work after school every day. One day I came home and some dog had torn threw the chicken wire on her run and all i had left of my best friend...
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    I'm such I proud chick ma I have to share!

    and one more... the youngest live in my living room!
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    I'm such I proud chick ma I have to share!

    I have been trying my hand at hatching this year and loving it! I have a chocolate laced? polish roo I call Lord Gadiva who has been mixing it up with my buff o some rir and my Jersey G's This is Lucy at 7 weeks! And these lil cutties are two weeks old!
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    Oregon Fall Poultry Swap - October 22 - Corvallis @ the Fairgrounds!!!

    Quote: I'm glad you'll be joining us!! I would say bring your hatching eggs if you have some because there will be a lot of local traffic as well as people from the swap so you never know what people will be wanting. As far as preordering eggs from someone on the swap thread, probably a good...
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    Am I the only weirdo here that doesn't like to touch or hold the

    I like to hold my chick but at about 3 to 4 months I'm not in to trying to pick them up and I don't like them pecking anywhere near me... I had a very not cool uncle who gave me a very healthy fear of large brids I don't do geese or turkeys at all! I thought raising my own would make it better...
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    Watermelon and baby chicks

    Quote: my ckickens love watermelon but will not under any circumstances eat carrots Mine will run for you if they think your going to give a carrot to one of the horses... They want all the carrots!
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    It's official, I have crossed over to the dark side...

    Today I bought a larger tote which is what I've been using as a brooder with a heat lamp over the top, but I needed the bigger one as I wanted more time for the chicks to be in the house (studio with no full floor to ceiling walls) before I took them out to the small coop that is inside the big...
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    3 week old chicks outside overnight? UPDATE on orig. post

    If you do put them outside I have found that 11 is the magic number for a heat lamp (at least here in Oregon) anymore and someone always seems to get squeshed to death under the chick pile... it's a very sad way to lose a chick but mine have been outside since they were 3 weeks old to make...
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    Watermelon and baby chicks

    I found out last night my two week old babies do NOT like brussel sprout leaves... They live in my living room right now cause I hatched to many to far apart and I don't want fighting so I have been giving them my trimings from dinner and so far they like every thing but the brussels
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    Broke in another rifle. (a bit of blood)

    We have a new bob cat out for my chickens last year I lost a few before we finally got the bad kitty with the 12 gauge and soon there will be another one joining this one in the ground. this was last years.
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    How rat proof is hardware cloth?

    Are you saying that rats will eat chickens??? Or just worried about the chicken food? Or them eating the eggs? We put Bite Bar outside the coop where the chickens can't get to it and posion them so that we don't have a problem with them. It works on Oregon rats:/
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    Housecats and chickens?

    My barn cats run from my hens even the chicks now that the roo has decided that they are indeed his! I might add he's a better mouser then the cats too! Always bringing his girls a mouse to eat.
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    Ugh. My rooster's rear is infected- there are maggots! What do I do?

    I would try that and you may need to use tweezers to get all the maggots out and then flush it out with the betadine again.
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