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    Dogs VS. Cats

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    (6)Pickled egg recipes

    Hey, I just got a chance to get online with my pickled eggs recipe that Sylviaanne wanted. It is actually my maternal grandmother's recipe. 1 can of beets, cooked and sliced 3/4 teaspoon salt (I use my own garden beets instead)...
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    NY chicken lover!!!!

    I have lots of snakes around, they hunt in my garden, under the plants (yay, snakes - git those pesky bugs and mouses!)...a few weeks ago, I found, in my coop, under the feeder, a four inch long section of snake body...survival of the smartest, apparently this snake was not too clever. Extra...
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    Sick pullet won't eat/ is lethargic

    Another disease with similar symptoms to Mareks is Avian Leukosis. My two-year-old hens have it. It's generally passed from carrier hen to chick, right in the egg. It's a virus. The chicks are therefore born with it. It manifests at 4-8 months of age, and there are no symptoms until 2-3 days...
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    Murray McMurray hatchery?

    I just got my first McMurray order, also arriving on Sunday. I got my robo call at 6 am Sunday, then at 9 the post office called. The chicks were at the main hub post office, and they had a guy loading them in his car as we spoke, who would deliver them TO OUT HOUSE as soon as he finished...
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    hen had avian leukosis...I have questions...new chicks coming THIS WEEK! Help, please!

    I have three hens and a roo, four years old, gold sex links. I have six Dorkings, about a year and a half old. The Dorkings were dying young and quickly. I sent the latest one out for necropsy, preliminary report came back today: Avian Leukosis. I understand it's a virus, so no vaccine...
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    electric poultry fences, and combining different breeds/ages

    Hey, all I have two coops, both occupied at present. They are adjacent, they share a fence. For various reasons I don't want to combine my current flocks. One of the flocks was supposed to be my self sustaining dual purpose birds, until my roo died suddenly in November. NOw, of course, if I...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Quote: I've had similar quitters in the incubator. of my first 21 eggs, I got 2 hatched, but attributed that to shipping. then so far of the first 12 of my own eggs, again i got 2. better percentage, but still... then of the next dozen, so far i have 4 still going. 1 is in the hatcher now...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Ok, folks, I'm puzzled, disappointed, aggravated, and worried. Help! Here's the deal: A year ago I ordered 25 Dorkings from SandHill. I was sent 26 chicks. One died at 3 days. At about six months, I took 13 cockerels to be processed, keeping one cockerel and all eleven pullets. One pullet was an...
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    cage bird diet question

    Quote: Wow, thanks so much. I'll pass that info on, and am glad to have it for my own information.
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    Any Australian Shepherd owner here?

    I have two Black Tri males. One is almost nine and has had seizures since 4 months of age. Still, he has three Rally titles and a couple legs of agility (I stopped running him in trials from fear he'd have a seizure on top of the A frame someday). My other one is six and a half and has two...
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    cage bird diet question

    Hey, A friend of mine has recently begun caring for some cage birds owned by her sister. There are parakeets, doves, pigeons, and I think a cockatiel or two. It seems they've been getting seed of some sort, and have never had any grit. Is this possible? I gave my friend some of my chicken grit...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Hey, y'all, Last September, I got 25 Dorkings from Sand Hill. After sending the extra boys off to the freezer, I had eleven pullets and my one roo. In May, one pullet died. In July, another died. Yesterday, I went out to find my roo dead. No apparent cause of death on any of them. No blood, no...
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    How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens? - OLD

    My first laying flock will be four next spring, two summers ago we raised a flock of Rangers for meat, last fall I got a batch of dual purpose chicks and the roosters went into the freezer last winter. I might suggest this poll would be better timed if it were taken in the spring; most people...
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    is Dumor (dumour) a good feed brand?

    Quote: Partly it depends on how active he is - many senior foods assume that older dogs are less active, and that's not always true. That being said, I have six dogs ranging in size from 55 lbs to 130 lbs and in age from 15 months to 9 years. They eat Purina One Lamb and Rice and do very well...
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