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    Is it safe to use lime in the chicken coop?

    After reading the posts on Stall Dry, I stopped by my local Feed and Farm store to see if they carried it and they did. I picked up two 40# bags at $10.99 each. That seemed pretty reasonable if it works as well as everyone says. I spred some on the wood floor, under the roosts, of my 8 X 12 coop...
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    Selling eggs Questions <not selling...yet ;) >

    I sell my eggs for $2.50 a dozen to friends, neighbors, co-workers and to customers that shop at the grocery store where I work. I advertise totally by word of mouth and if someone seems interested or has never had fresh eggs before I give them 1/2 a dozen for free to get them hooked. I usually...
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    children and roosters

    If your roo is starting to show aggressive behavior towards anyone and especially your small children I would re-home him. Mature roos can inflict serious damage, not to mention cause your little ones to become very afraid of all chickens. I had a roo who suddenly jumped on or attacked anyone...
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    chicks right eye won't open

    Great news! My little silkies eye is now open and "she's" seeing fine!!!
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    chicks right eye won't open

    The chick is in a heated brooder with 4 other chicks and has been eating, drinking, and pooping just fine. It's eye is not swollen, red or draining. The lid just seems to be sealed shut.
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    chicks right eye won't open

    I bought a two day old silky banty from a feed and farm store last night. When I got it home I noticed that it's right eye was halfway closed. Today it's completely closed and won't open. I washed it gently to see if that would help, but it only seemed to hurt the baby. I'm wondering if I should...
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    Candling eggs under a broody and mean broodies

    My GLCW would growl, scream and try to take my hand off when I would check her eggs, so I would just put on leather gloves and I was fine. I discovered that after the chicks hatched she was a wonderful and very protective mother to them, so I just figured she was that way from start to finish...
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    Coop questions

    I live in Rathdrum, Id. and our winters are colder than yours. My 8 X 12 coop is insulated and home to 23 layers and 2 roos, but they also have access to a very large fenced chicken yard. I have roof ventilation and two screened windows that I can open if needed for air in the winter to keep any...
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    Fertile Rooster?

    My Cuckoo Maran Roo was fertile at 5 months old. I let some of my broody hens hatch out some of his fertilized eggs and they were healthy strong chicks. He was the only roo I had at the time, so I knew he was the only one who could have gotten the job done!
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    *Test egg lives!!!*

    Hey, I work at Safeway in Idaho and have never heard of our store selling fertile eggs. How did you get ahold of one? What kind of egg is it? Organic? Brown?
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    The perfect mix of chicks. Which Roo?

    I had a cuckoo maran roo who turned mean towards both me and my DH. I had to carry a broom whenever I entered the coop or yard. I was willing to let him get away with that until a week before Thanksgiving when he shredded the back of one on my hens and left her for dead, then attacked my DH when...
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    Who's Got Frizzles?

    Here's my little white banty frizzle the day after hatching her foster baby.
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    New moms with new babies!

    I bought my GL Cochin from Ideal as a new chick in early March and what a broody hen she became! She would allow other hens to lay in the box with her and then would immediately steal their eggs and cover them. I found 14 eggs under her one day! I allowed her to brood three. She was also an...
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    New moms with new babies!

    Here is a pic of my 5 month old frizzle and 5 month old golden laced cochin with their new babies. The frizzle hatched out a buff rock/cuckoo maran mix. The gl cochin hatched out 2 cuckoo marans and 1 ameraucana/cuckoo mix.
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    A 7 month old Broody Buff Orphington?

    I had a 5 month old frizzle and 2 golden laced cochins go broody and they refused to leave their nesting boxes, so I let them hatch out some babies and they were wonderful attentive mamas. I put the mamas back in with the rest of the grown-ups, after a week, and put the babies in the brooder...
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