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  1. My Chickens 18

    My Chickens 18

    Current Chickens New Chicken I bought a 10 week old Welsummer bantam pullet from the city farm where I work on 5/7/08. She came home with me on the bus (which caused some interesting conversations) and seems to be pretty tame due to the fact that she has grown up with small children screaming...
  2. Greyscale Rainbows Coop

    Greyscale Rainbows Coop

    UNDER CONTRUCTION (THE PAGE, NOT THE COOP!) These pictures were not taken when the coop was originally built, but when the coop was taken to pieces to be sprayed with insecticide (we got red mite) in June 2008. The coop was originally built in 2004 for around £100 ($200) although I'm sure...
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    Albuquerque: a model of urban chicken enlightenment

    Quote: So far as I know they don't; it would take a sick and perverse mind to actually come up with that. However, being a person with a sick and perverse mind I could imagine people sewing little numbered jerseys for their hens, lining up opposite a finish line with a bunch of crickets...
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    Poulty Breed Game

    D'Uccle
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    Nutritional information at it's best

    Psst . . . the English speak English and have lower diabetes rates
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    Poulty Breed Game

    Mille Fleur
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    I love my Mother- BUT...

    I dread the day that my grandparents die. Not just because I am very close to them, but because they have a massive house - 4 storeys, 2/3 large rooms on each plus up two four mini rooms on each floor, plus a mini room inbetween each storey. A total of 19 rooms. Add to this the fact that at 80...
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    Good Morning!!The Much Ado About Mornings Thread!!Good Morning!!

    This morning I was awoken by the doorbell at 8am (I'm on summer holidays) only to find that it was the man from ParcelForce who still hasn't grasped the concept that 3 ******* Close is not the same as 3 ******* Cross Road, even if ******* Close is almost impossible to find - we are always...
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    Are there any other pilots here?

    Quote: The Soaring Society of America tells me that there are 3 gliding clubs in SC, at Jefferson, Ridgeland and Spartanburg. www.glider.org (at Jefferson, various options from $75) http://www.carolinasoaring.org/ (at Spartanburg, flights are $75 and last 25-30 minutes depending on the...
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    About my clothesline...

    I just hang my clothes up on hangers and then hook them over the doorframe of the 3rd bedroom - we rarely go in there so it works perfectly. There truly is no real need for a dryer unless you live in a really tiny house with no room to swing a cat. Our washer is about 25 years old - we got it...
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    Would everyone please......

    Just spotted this . . . when you say that reproduction related things are banned . . . does that mean that if I wanted to ask a question about "treading" by chickens, that would be banned? Please remember that I lot of young chicken people are on here because we DON'T have any other people in...
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    Do I have a Bantam ?

    I got my Lily from a farm where it became quite obvious that the old man had more chickens (he said 300+) than he could cope with. From what I could see and what he told me, he had LF Marans, Araucanas and Leghorns. I had gone there with the intention of buying a LF araucana hen. I bought what I...
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    welsummer hen

    I have one pullet at the moment, and I used to have a hen until the fox got her She was no louder than any of the others (a Light Sussex and a Wyandotte), she never got ill, and she was my best layer. All round brilliant bird
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    Feed question> Help??

    It probably won't do them any harm, but next time you go, insist on proper grower feed. I'm also paying the equivalent of $15 for 20kg (44lbs) but this is the world where petrol is £1.18 ($2.36) a litre so $8.93 a gallon - high fuel prices lead to an increase in the cost of just about...
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    Is it cheaper to buy chicken at the market or raise it?

    It will cost you more to raise it, especially if you are comparing it to chicken raised in a broiler shed (boo, hiss). However, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that it was raised in as cruelty-free way as possible, and I have heard (I'm a vegetarian) that meat from your own chickens...
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