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    Help Selecting a Breed

    I show dogs - not interested in getting started showing something else - Yikes! So, no go on the showing off-spring idea. Hum.... this assortment idea is sounding more interesting. Right now I have 40 layers and 2 llamas pastured on about 1.3 acres. The chickens tend to roam into the...
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    Help Selecting a Breed

    Wow. There is a lot more the choose from than I thought. I've been eyeballing the Bourbon Red, but was curious to see what the folks here had to say. I'm interested in a hearty utility bird. An easy keeper on pasture. Something that will finish out in the 15 - 25 pound range. I dunno -...
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    Help Selecting a Breed

    Hello! We successfully pasture raised 5 turkeys last year, our "straight run" wound up with 4 toms, and 1 jenny. (She was the belle of the ball.) They finished out at 35, 36, 36, 37, and 18 pounds at 9 months... TOO BIG!! They were Broadbreasted Bronze. They lived quite happily with our...
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    Carmichael California Chicken Ordinance

    Carmichael California Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed any number kept in healthy and sanitary conditions Roosters Allowed Yes Permit Required No Coop Restrictions none found City/Organization Contact name Sacramento County Municipal...
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    Our chicken the mouser?

    It sounds like she ate it whole then. It's wasn't a very big mouse - field mouse sized. The whole family stood and watched with our mouths hanging open as she chased it down. It was crazy. The mouse dodging and darting, and the chicken bearing down on it. None of the rest of the flock was...
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    Our chicken the mouser?

    When we were moving the chicken tractor last week, we watched with bemusement as one of our younger pullets (a Red Sex Link - RRI x Delaware cross) ran down a field mouse that had taken up residence in/near the tractor, caught it, and took it off to presumably eat it. She was quite busy with it...
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    Weird egg

    When the girls were just getting started we generally had a double yolk about every other day. One day the egg was just ginormous!! Sure enough a triple yolker! My 9 year-old had fun frying it up for himself. The thing was huge - poor girl - not certain how she got it out.
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    The Chicken "Party" Light is working!

    Don't know about you guys but over in our coop right around the autumnal equinox egg production dropped off a cliff. We rapidly went from 7-8 to 3 eggs per day out of our 9 pullets (Feb chicks). We figured we probably needed to add some lights to the coop. Since we tractor our girls, and...
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    Total devastation

    Wow. That's really hard. Our dogs went through a flock of 30 meaties and stacked them like cord wood. Our 13-yo forgot to latch the gate. Grrrrr. He wiped out his savings paying for them. Today, our layers live behind electric poultry netting. We got the kind that's easy to move around...
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    Injured 3-week old - UPDATE: Elizabethan Collar sizing? (Pictures)

    Thanks. I think we'll give the collar a go over night and see what happens. I've cut it back so there's hardly any flare. The chick still can't scratch it's neck, but seems to have an easier time eating and drinking. I've seen it do both, so it's not going to starve overnight. My 8-yo did...
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    Injured 3-week old - UPDATE: Elizabethan Collar sizing? (Pictures)

    Well, I've not had chickens before, but I've had dogs for 25 years. My whelping box doubles as a very nice brooder. And the "palace" is an old dog crate. I've just sort of fallen into treating them like I'd treat a puppy. On the theory that all infants need the same basic stuff. You've not...
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    Injured 3-week old - UPDATE: Elizabethan Collar sizing? (Pictures)

    Yeah - I thought about wrapping it's feet to stop the scratching. But figured I wouldn't be able to come up with anything that couldn't be pecked off. After all, it's got nothing else to do. Hum, what if I made some fabric "pockets" and tied them to the legs? Sheez. I don't know if that'd...
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    Injured 3-week old - UPDATE: Elizabethan Collar sizing? (Pictures)

    Gosh Darn it! It's been scratching at it's neck, and it's a mess. Worse than yesterday. We tended it today, used antibiotic cream - with no "caine"s. I tried to fashion an Elizabethan Collar for it out of a 1 gal jug. (It's what I'd do if this were a dog.) It's back in the palace and...
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    Injured 3-week old - UPDATE: Elizabethan Collar sizing? (Pictures)

    Thanks for looking. Looks like it's a busy day in this forum. My 8-year-old son noticed an injured chick in the run today and came immediately to get me. This chick was definitely not injured last night when we put them to bed. So, the injury has occurred in the last 18 hours. This is what I...
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    meaties in pvc tractor (pics)

    We made this same tractor. I left off the square thing in the middle. On the plans it was called a "feeder". Say what? It didn't appear to add anything to the soundness of the structure, so I left it off. Haven't had any problems with it not being there. I did put in an extra door on the...
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