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    Thank you

    I would like to thank everyone who was a part of me being on here. Thank you for all advice, suggestions, letting me also add to other peoples' posts, and so much for those who sold such sweet chickens to me. I am no longer able to have chickens or any sort of poultry. My heart condition is...
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    Thank you and goodbye

    Thank you for letting me be a part of this group. I know I haven't written a lot of things, but I have done a lot of reading and learning and enjoying. Now comes the time for me to say 'goodbye' to everyone. I do not have chickens anymore and am not able to ever have them again. My health has...
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    Two free bantam hens in central Illinois

    If you are still interested in the banties, this weekend would be fine. Did you want to come where we live to get them or have my husband meet you in the parking lot of a store in Peoria. I am sorry I didn't reply until now. I've been having some heart and lung issues the past few days. I...
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    Two free bantam hens in central Illinois

    I don't know for sure if they are Japanese bantams or not. I originally had a male and female white w black tail and their entire hatch produced 5 males. I offered to trade some of them for another couple hens. All I have left are the two hens I was given in trade. They are both brownish. I...
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    Two bantam hens to give away (central Illinois, close to Peoria)

    I don't know for sure if they are Japanese bantams or not. I originally had a male and female white w black tail and their entire hatch produced 5 males. I offered to trade some of them for another couple hens. All I have left are the two hens I was given in trade. They are both brownish...
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    What is good to feed?

    I just got a dozen keets a few days ago, they are 12 weeks old. I have no idea what they were being fed. The man had emergency happen and had to get rid of everything he was raising, right away. I would like to know what is good to feed. Regular chick starter or game bird starter? I can't...
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    I have a question about watering garden

    We grew some tomatoes last year and they were awful tasting. We had three different kinds, so it wasn't the kind of tomato. We used our well water to water the plants, when we didn't get rain. Our well water is not drinkable. It has large amounts of iron and sulphur, but it also has methane gas...
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    How to help adult Guinea get used to new home

    The only other poultry I have are a few japanese black tail white bantams. My original roo and hen. She hatched out five chicks last spring. A poultry raiser came by for us and let us know what the chicks were - all five turned out to be male. She said she would take all of them and arrange to...
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    How to help adult Guinea get used to new home

    I always put them in fenced in area inside the barn (shelters them from weather). I usually turn them loose one at a time or maybe two at a time when an extra slips out. Have wire across the top of the fence and under it, so basically a box of wire. Heavy duty hardware cloth. So they can all...
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    How to help adult Guinea get used to new home

    We have racoons, fox, ermine/weasels, coyotes, etc. Try killing them, but so darn many of them. Neighbor behind us shoots them year around and still they are all over. We actually put down two layers if chicken wire, two layers of hardware cloth, and three layers of chain link fencing on...
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    How to help adult Guinea get used to new home

    I have only three guineas left from my original flock (16 from summer of 2020, until just a couple months ago). I have found some adult guineas for sale. I know guineas stay where they were raised and you have to 'adjust' them to new homes. I always keep 10-12 week old ones in small fenced...
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    Are Japanese Bantams hard to breed and get chicks?

    Every website that has info on Japanese Bantams all say it is very rare to have chicks out of them. However I have two Black Tail Japanese, and they had six chicks hatch this spring and we found another five chicks (newly hatched) this morning. My main question is: are they really hard to breed...
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    No corn for warm weather

    Does anyone have a recipe or directions of how to make up scratch (scratchings) without any corn in it? I want to keep giving my chickens some scratchings as treats, but with warm weather arriving, I don't want corn in it. I've always been told corn creates body heat (even with horses and...
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    Opossum

    Are possums a danger to chickens and other poultry? I know how bad raccoons, fox, weasel, etc are, but have read differing opinions about possums. We saw a big possum in the barn and close to chicken house a couple days ago. Before we have it ''removed'', I want to know if it really is a danger...
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    TSC chicks keep dying despite ideal conditions

    I imagine that this is probably dumb question: is there any chance the new brooder heat source is coated with teflon or in the family of teflon? Seems like a lot of manufactures of heating things have a tendency to put that on the heaters to ''help them stay clean or clean easier". Bad thing is...
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