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    Its Happening

    there is a little beak pecking out a hole in my first egg
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    Its Happening

    So around midnight is when I first heard them. Its 10 now. It sounds like scratching going on in there and chirping. I finally understand when everyone else was sharing their joy of hearing the first PIP, i could only imagine what it was. You should have seen me. I was so excited, that when I...
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    Its Happening

    Okay friends, I know you have heard this a million times but I have tried for a year to incubate some eggs. I first a giant homemade one that was given to me that makes a better bator for plants than chicks as I never got one hatch. I got a I think its called a Little Man and couldnt get the...
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    My duck eggs smell swampy

    Now this is going to sound really silly, but my duck eggs smell swampy and they lay with my chickens whose eggs smell fine. My kids dont want to eat them because of the smell. Let me rephrase, the shell smells swampy not the inside. Is there a way to clean them to get rid of the smell. I will be...
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    Ordering chickens for a 12 year old boy in 4h

    Hey guys, Its been along time since i have logged on. Wow I have had my chickens for over 2 years now. I have a had several varieties and I know what I like. My son who is 12 joined 4H this year with Poultry. I told him in spring time i would order him a couple of chicks of his choice to start...
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    Rooster Psychology

    I used to paint mine's nails. He was the laughing flock of the yard. (I think it was the handling though). The girls avoided his shiny nails and then he only had me to be friends with. He then took his aggresion out on the girls by over sexing them. I then found him a home where he could be...
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    My home grown fryers are way to tough, ideas?

    This is probably a silly post but I am wondering why the fryers we have grown from babies and now are in the freezer are so tough. Every single one that we have cooked have been so hard to eat. The store bought chicken is not that way. I am cooking the same exact way. What could I be doing wrong...
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    article on a hatchery with poor treatment of chicks.

    By Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor. Chicago-based Mercy for...
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    What on eath are these?

    Those babies are absolutely beautiful. Too bad, like with most babies, they couldnt stay that way.
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    Huge Rattlesnake!!!!

    I suppose I need some help with my issues with snakes, but they gave me the chills and body shakes even looking at dead ones. I pray that the rest of your chickens remain safe.
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    Huge Rattlesnake!!!!

    ACK!!!! I hate rattle snakes. When my brother and I were young my mom lived in Forsyth Montana. That was our first incounter with rattle snakes. They give me the heebeegeebees. We grew up in Washington where the snakes in the yard were our friends. Now let me tell you, I have never taken ballet...
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    Tansy

    I was curious if Tansy is toxic to goats as it is to Horses, would any of you know that?
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    My Rouen Drake....Green feathers are turning brown???!!! WHY?

    Thanks for posting this, you saved me from having too. I just got 3 Rouens from a friend and they were hatched out at the same time. The two males were both green headed and now only one is green and the other brown. You can see a faint green in patches but very little. Was really starting to...
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    Oh no!!! I've discovered a poultry trading group in my area...

    You are too funny. I understand the feeling though. It reminds me of the commercial "Open, Open, Open" really early in the morning. Good luck
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    I was told...

    She doesnt remember, that is why I have this great group of brains to ask.
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