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    Disbudding Goats

    thanks for the help everyone that replied to my question.
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    Disbudding Goats

    i have the paste to dehorn the kids that i have and i was wondering if they are supposed to fall off when i put the past on or if is supposed to fall off within a week? if anyone has used paste on there kids and have experience could you give me some tips on it.
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    Do you need to worm if no signs are present?

    If your eggs are coming out covered in poop then your chickens have worms. DE works really well i only put it in there food for three days every two months and it protects them and keeps the eggs clean. As well DE works well to get rid of lice and mites, which can kill chickens. For that you...
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    why did you start keeping chickens

    Well I'm sixteen-years old but when i got my first chick i was only three and i went to my papa's and he had chickens and pheasants and quail and ducks. I love animals so much that he let me take one of his chicks but i didn't really know how to take care of it and we lived in the city so it...
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    Merging two flocks - looking for tips

    i had four at the begining they were about three months old and my friend gave me four more and they were only one month old. It turned out that two from my first group wre roosters and that one of the little ones was a rooster as well. I put the little ones in a cage that they could only be...
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    19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

    i got my first egg today!!!!!!!! and this is the girl that layed it her name is Pepper
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    19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

    my four girls are 20 weeks and my other four are 10 weeks. the older ones sometimes jump in the nesting box and then jump back out bt the younger ones are the ones that are sleeping in them they are full of poop and they all also peck and eat the wood shavings that are in the nesting boxes. I...
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    not laying eggs

    they are Brahma/Chantecler mixes maybe that is why they look like that for a long time i thought that one of them was a rooster but it never grew spurs or really long tail feathers so i guess the two white ones are hens
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    not laying eggs

    thanks so much still waiting on the eggs but they should start coming soon the girls have gotten interested in the boxes the one lays in it now
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    what breed are these chicks/pullets

    yes the two brown ones have feathers on there legs but the white ones don't. also one of the brown ones has some coloured feathers and is "chubbier" then the other brown one.
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    what breed are these chicks/pullets

    My friend went to the fur and feather show in the spring they bought 14 chicks and was planing on keeping them in there garage. So he gave me four of them. They are two months old in this picture. he had so many that he does not remember what all the kinds were so if someone could please...
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    not laying eggs

    I have four hens that are six months old and four pullets that are three months old. two of the four older ones have red faces and one of my hens will stay in the coop all day long if I let her but she wont sit in the nesting boxes i put golf balls in the nesting boxes to encourage her to sit on...
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    introducing new chickens

    I have 4 chanticleer/Brahma mixed chickens. They are 4 months old. my friend had to many and needed to get rid of some so i said i would take them. he gave me 4 chickens two of them are Rhode island red and the other two I'm not sure but they are pure white. they are a month old. yesterday i let...
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    Brahma/Chantecler mix

    So I got these four pullets at the fir and feather show in town and they said that they were Brahma/Chantecler mixes. Two of them are white and two of them are black they all have feathers on there legs and feet. Are they actually a mix of these to breeds or did they just say that they were? And...
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    letting chickens out of the run

    alright thanks I guess I wont do it then cause I only have four chickens and i dont want to risk losing any of them! Thanks i think I'll set up a pen in the back feild to keep them safe if I need to take them out of the run.
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