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    Laying Egg with no shell

    Got my first one of these today! I was quite excited to find this rarity. I'd only read about them before. I think it's one of the young pullets just getting old enough to lay for the first time. Just like a human going through puberty and trying to make sense of the changes in their body I...
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    Central California Local Urban Chicken Keepers (CCLUCK) in Fresno Meeting Schedule

    Looks like they're focusing their efforts locally and less online. Do a web search for CCLUCK to find other avenues to keep up with their activities.
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    Texas

    Quote: I think people freak out on this too much. 1) Plants won't pick up and pull something like salmonella up from the soil through the plant and deposit it into a tomato. It's more if you drop a tomato onto the ground it could get contaminated, but just like most other things you should...
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    Texas

    I believe I read that chickens only process about 50% of what they consume. So chicken poo still has many of the nutrients and protein remaining. I have the same problem with my own dogs sometimes eating chicken poo, but not always. We're trying to slim them down based on vet recommendation so...
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    Texas

    I believe federal law applies in this case. So like smoking weed in Colorado or Washington state is legal (with age, etc. limits), the feds can still arrest and prosecute you.
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    Texas

    Well it's only 3 hours each way to Abilene, TX. You can get Privett Hatchery chicks from our local ACCO Feed shop pretty much year-round. They have chicks coming in at least weekly this time of year and they'll try to order what you request if the hatchery can supply it any given week. Right now...
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    Texas

    Quote: Already bought it and watched it last week. It's available for early release on iTunes store. We've lost or the kids destroyed so many DVD's that I won't buy DVD's any more. We buy things we want on iTunes and watch it via AppleTV set top box. Good movie. Really don't like waiting...
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    Texas

    This is actually why I keep an OPEN, UNSECURED guess wifi network. 1) available for guests. 2) if/when authorities come knock knock you can demonstrate that the network is open and available to anyone, so there's NO WAY TO PROVE YOU OR OR FAMILY DID ANYTHING NAUGHTY. However, if you have a...
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    Texas

    Thanks! We have two boys, ages 14 and 8. We'd tried for a few years (even some fertility stuff) then kinda given up on it and mentally laid it in God's hands. Then low-and-behold a surprise pregnancy! So we're going to get a girl, and my wife is self-surprised at how delighted she is. We'd said...
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    Texas

    Sorry to hear about all the recent losses. We experienced a couple massacres too these last couple months. We'd broken our dogs of the impulse to kill our chickens and they'd been free-roaming together in our backyard for months. Then visitors came with a little yappy dog who immediately started...
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    Texas

    There seems to be a gazillion IP cameras. I got one off eBay last fall for about $80 to my door. They seem to have gone up a bit or I'm just not seeing the same seller I got mine from. There are other places besides eBay too. Mine isn't weather-proof. I specifically chose an "indoor" model...
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    Texas

    Lol, yea. It may even be something you can reach from the internet. Try chickens.kiehle.com We set it up when we got the auto-door opener before traveling out of state for Christmas. We were concerned if the coop door didn't open the birds would be crowded and unable to get food and water...
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    Texas

    I can only speak for my own experience and what I believe to be correct from my researching. Others are invited to post their thoughts. In my case my Silkies go broody whenever they feel like it. Last summer 1 went broody 3 times. First time we broke her of it, next time after 2 weeks of...
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    Texas

    Is she just hanging out in the coop scratching around and acting like a chicken or has she decided to go broody and stays sitting on a nest? In my flock I've noticed the lowest pecking order hen does get pecked at the back of the neck by other birds. It annoys me but she regrew all the feathers...
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    Texas

    I finally got a used tractor about a year ago. Can't honestly say I need it, but man I hate digging. Just loathe it. Wife was certainly skeptical, but has come a long way since the tractor allows me to get yards and yards of chopped mulch loaded up at the city recycle center for $6/yard and then...
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