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    Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

    did a game fair last weekend we moved over $1700.00 in birds. this is the only pair i came home with. we never have been bantam types here. they were just so cute i could not pass mini me chickens are cool. they are fast and the free range flock of large breeds are mean to them, good thing they...
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    Best Free Range Chickens?

    please post pic of the rir in your flock for color . thank you
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    Official BYC Poll: How many chickens do you have?

    19 left in the new ones young of the year. 6 breeds with 10 color phases in flock. had more in the new flock but the red-tailed hawk,snake neighbors dog had a few along the way maybe 8 or so none lost to sickness or accidents.
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    Rowe Chicken Feed

    yes, they also make a small pellet. very easy to use in pvc feeder,less mess and waisted feed
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    Rowe Chicken Feed

    my uncle uses rowe feed. we live in ohio also. they custom mill a mix for better protein as in higher amount plus add blood meal i think. and a few extra things added to help with egg development thus increase hatch %. now with this being said his incubation/hatch is up 30% due to better/more...
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    white quail chick

    also as stated above it is true a double set of the gold gene will for sure kill 25% of the hatch.
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    white quail chick

    no not really! more of a mix of strains. all are variations of the basic type of Coturnix no matter what hue they are.you have a blood line of quail coturnix were the strain of color is not fixed as of yet. in a gene pool were a mutation shows up you must either select for the hue/trait or not...
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    need plans for a cabinet incubator

    for some reason i can NOT find the link did a search and so on. please post it thank you
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    new pen area for $13.00 and 7 lawn timbers

    yes i plan to expand this weekend,but for now they day run in this new area the barn behind the flypen is 20'x18' they have the run of it as well
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    43 day old chicks. ? is some a true breeds

    thanks for the help and reply new here so some of the acronym are new to me. what is rir,ees. these are picture from my cell phone and not very good. i will try to get better shots this weekend. maybe i need a link for common color phases of the Easter Egger chick line.
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    43 day old chicks. ? is some a true breeds

    today they are 43 days old dark hen on left side is fast and very hard to shoot i would like to breed her to this male shown further below Below is the cockerel i would like to breed the dark hen to. any info on these would be great thank you. i love the color pattern but ? the breeding...
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    new pen area for $13.00 and 7 lawn timbers

    need ideas for the hatcher and Brooder/nursery phase of this new venture. image tag screen shot low res art for net view made a trip to town today did a price check lumber the build a 20x20 fly pen area sub-divided into 8 pens 5' x 8' 6" x 8' tall each. central walk path 3'x20' lumber cost...
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    Comment by 'CatFishTony' in article 'Bens-Hens DIY Incubator'

    well done. nice use of your skills.
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