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    Looking for Silver Laced Wyandotte breeding stock

    Thanks! I posted to the Northern California thread. Now to see if anyone responds. I'm not on FB but will ask a friend to check for me.
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    California - Northern

    Well, now that I posted, I'm getting later posts, so maybe someone will see this and have some encouraging news for me.
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    California - Northern

    I see no one has commented on the Nor Cal thread in many years, at least not that's showing up. I'm in Santa Rosa, an hour north of San Francisco. I am looking for someone who has breeding quality Silver laced Wyandottes, eggs or chicks, available next spring. I have been unhappy with the stock...
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    Looking for Silver Laced Wyandotte breeding stock

    I've been raising SLW for over 20 years, but lost much of my stock to predators a few years back. I've attempted to replace them with chicks from various hatcheries, but the quality of the birds leaves something to be desired. Many are small, not the well bred, full bodied birds I'm used to. Is...
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    Chickens vs. Barn Cats - Looking for Suggestions

    My 4 barn cats hang out in the poultry yard even though I've tried (and tried...) to get them to hang out and eat in the hay shed. So, I feed them in the poultry yard early in the morning before the cat food gobbling chickens are released from their coops, and again in the evening once the...
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    How to get chickens to eat turmeric

    I use about 1 rounded teaspoon daily, mixed into the feed as described, for about 20 layer hens and 7 turkeys. I also add ground pepper to the mix, about a teaspoon, as this is said to help make the turmeric more available when ingested.
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    What eats guts of chicken entering from behind?

    I had this same question last season, but my hens were left otherwise intact - just the guts were gone. I lost 6 or 7 hens this way over a period of several months. It turned out to be a cannibal hen in my flock - I caught her in the act. Since she was removed, it has not recurred.
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    Ended Cutest Couples Photo Contest—Poultry Edition—2025 Valentine's Day Contest Series

    Lola and Trough.
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    Ended Cutest Couples Photo Contest—"Other Critter" Edition—2025 Valentine's Day Contest Series

    Lace and Milo
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    Ended Cutest Couples Photo Contest—"Other Critter" Edition—2025 Valentine's Day Contest Series

    Gracie the Quarter Horse and J.R. the Red Angus.
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    Ended Cutest Couples Photo Contest—"Other Critter" Edition—2025 Valentine's Day Contest Series

    Hunter the Rat Terrier and Gracie the Chiweenie.
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    Ended Cutest Couples Photo Contest—"Other Critter" Edition—2025 Valentine's Day Contest Series

    My red Angus steers, Heckle and Jeckle.
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    Comment by 'chickyturkeyemulady' in article 'Top 10 Best Egg Producing Chicken Breeds'

    I have a bunch of Leghorn cross hens that are really good layers...BUT they are the problem children of my poultry yard! They have a tendency to escape their yard every chance they get, raid the vegetable beds, and make nests out under bushes in the pastures that they eventually disappear to and...
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    Emu Egg Hatch-along

    Lucky you! I have 3 geriatric emus now, aged 24 (Dookie - male, hatched and raised at home), 25 (Ianna - female, acquired at age 1 year) and 33 (Earl - male, acquired at age 12 years). In his younger years Earl was a great emu dad and raised several broods. Sadly he lost his mate Princess to a...
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    I just amputated my chickens wing today...

    Thanks for posting this. In 30 years of having chickens, I never had to do this, but I just amputated the left wing on one of my year and a half old blue egg layers. She was attacked by a hawk last week. I had cleaned up the injury site and put the wing in a sling, but later found the wing was...
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