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    Bands (or marking) for baby chicks

    Mine are Wyandottes and they are very active and Interactive. Are there any kind of markers that are safe and non-toxic?
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    Bands (or marking) for baby chicks

    I tried those, got the 1/4" and 3/8". I just tried putting the 1/4" on 5 day old chicks. The size was right, but they were immediately biting everybody else's bands, the bands stretched as the banded chick tried to run, and with another biting and holding on to the band, they'd trip and fall...
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    TudyBOT's Random Quiz Questions

    If you are Tudy you are flat. If you were Three-D you would be more believable.
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    BYC's Random Funny Posting Thread! Hosts Mike & Sally

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    C&S Farmers Helper Ultra Kibble Crackle Berries

    These two products were long time favorites of my chickens. I called the the company, they acknowledged that those were very popular but they have discontinued all production and has no plans/intention of resuming. I'm quite disappointed. 😰
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    in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

    I'll bite.
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    BYC's Random Funny Posting Thread! Hosts Mike & Sally

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    Broody Prairie Bluebell ?

    Old thread, but... we have two Prairie Bluebells, one year old. One never goes broody. The other one lays up a storm for a four or five weeks and then goes hard core broody. She's on her fourth round of that routine now. If I try to hard to break her of it, she sulks and won't start laying for a...
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    What breed is she? Perhaps Australorp?

    She started laying beautiful blue eggs. Prairie Bluebell she is.
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    Flystrike - Check Those Vents In This Heat

    We had superb results by spraying cold water on them with a large syringe. The worms fled, the eggs were flushed right out. You don't want to soak your chicken in cold water, that's a shock, but a small directed spray of cold water shocks the worms and gives a bit of pain relief to the chicken.
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    Flystrike - Check Those Vents In This Heat

    Good news! One comment- be careful about using tweezers to remove the maggots, especially if they are alive. They bite on to the skin and tissue and hold on, so while removing the maggots you can unintentionally pull and tear the tissue, causing more damage.
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    Fly strike treatment with Cold Water, fast results

    I want to emphasize- we used a large (1" diameter) syringe and flushed the wound with cool water; you don't want to bathe or soak the chicken in cold water. It worked extremely well. We checked again every couple of hours, and by evening there was no sign of maggots or eggs. She was eating...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte gender help

    And these three are Silver Laced Wyandottes pullets at 5 months.
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte gender help

    These are Columbian Wyandottes at 5-1/2 months, a roo and two pullets. I say yours is a pullet.
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    What breed is she? Perhaps Australorp?

    Same feather color, body build, leg color... that one looks a bit younger and has darker eyes, but very close. I think we have our answer, thanks everybody!
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