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    8wk old blue jersey giants m or f?

    I do hope they are all pullets! Mary
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    10 week old Easter Eggers-pullet or roo?

    If either develop pointy hackle feathers, along with a brighter comb, they are cockerels. Nothing obvious, at least not yet. It's hard to see pointy hackle feathers on photos, given the coloring present. Our male EEs were pretty obvious by ten weeks though. Mary
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    Horses!

    Fantastic! So impressive, and great to find the perfect horse so fast. I gave up riding when my 'steady eddy' mare died, and I had sweet young things, green broke, athletic, and the ground gets harder every year, at least for me. Mary
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    Horses!

    I'm so sorry, it was time, but still very sad. One of my mares, age 25, has this same incisor issue, and I've been very reluctant to have the surgery done, in part because of the aftercare necessary, and because she's eating fine, in fact, on the 'large' side just on pasture. And the cost...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Today the air quality and temperatures were finally in the 'do things outside' range, so got a few things going out there. Tomorrow, hope for more good weather, and more progress. I moved our bantam EE rooster and his five hens to the separate coop area tonight, looking for maybe some chicks...
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    Ethical Discussion- Should I Add Birds to my Flock?

    I wouldn't add birds not with this disease in your flock. Additions will stress your current birds, and extra stress isn't good for them either. Bringing healthy chicks home to expose them to this, not ethical IMO. I agree about separating your cockerels, they won't be all that helpful, and...
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    Im looking for my chicks new food

    Agree completely! Look at mill dates on each bag, and buy what's fresh where you shop. Here it's Flock Raiser, best price over Nutrena, and the store who has Kalmbach stores it outside in an open shed, not safe from weather or rodents. Mary
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    I'm going on an adventure!

    Don't buy windows! Securely attach hardware cloth over window openings, MANY window openings, and then sheet vinyl over the windward sides in winter, at most. Heat is your major weather problem, more open is best in your climate. Wide roof overhangs protect water from entering window openings...
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    Help! What do I feed my mixed flock??!

    Agree, and check the mill date on the bag, it's best fed within two months of it's mill date. Mary
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    Topic of the Week - Dogs and Chickens

    I don't think that canine and poultry roundworms are the same, so not an issue. Tapeworms of any species have very complicated life cycles, often involving two or three species. The critter who eats a tapeworm segment will develop cystic lesions in their muscles and tissues, and if eaten by...
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    Food storage

    Yuck! Don't love feed infested with any insects, grosses me out. Long ago lived in an army base on Okinawa, semi-tropical, and had critters in food often. Not good memories about that... Do check the mill date on each bag of fed, so you aren't buying somethin that you can't feed within a...
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    Adding oyster shells

    We also always have it out there in a feeder, and chicks may try some, but don't really eat much until they are laying eggs. Mary
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    We have our first egg!!!

    Welcome, and congratulations! That first, madly expensive egg, is the best. Mary
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    Oh no! Molt already in August?

    Molting? You bet! And twenty hens, some old but still five eggs so far today. Feathers everywhere too! Mary
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    8wk old blue jersey giants m or f?

    It's early yet, but the two lighter colored birds have bigger more red combs, so I think they are cockerels, and the darker bird is a pullet. Best guess right now... Mary
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