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    Sponsored Post Free Sample of Zyfend® A! – comment with photo of your chickens!

    Meal worms are yummy! Parasitic worms are ewwwww!
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    Will a broody hen accept incubator hatched chicks?

    I have a clutch of eggs in the incubator due to hatch this Sunday (April 24th). My standard Cochin hen has gone broody this week, would it be possible to get her to raise the incubator hatched chicks? What would be the best way to introduce them? The hen raised a clutch of chicks for me last...
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    Can a bantam roo breed a full sized hen?

    Here He is, not real tiny just a bit smaller.
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    Can a bantam roo breed a full sized hen?

    That little rascal! Live and learn, thank you.
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    Can a bantam roo breed a full sized hen?

    Hi all! I've just had a hatch with a surprise in it, a black chick. Dad is supposed to be my Rhode Island Red roo,the moms are Speckled Sussex and Buff Orpington. So far, I've got 1 dark gold chick, 3 gold chicks with dark brown markings, a black chick, and two unhatched eggs. I have an Old...
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    New Mexico

    Can anyone tell me if the monthly poultry swap meet is still going on in Edgewood, and when the next one is? Afraid I've got too many Roos.
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    Ended Contest #7 Most Striking Domestic MALE Fowl Contest 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Samson is gororgeous! You don't have any problems with the chickens and turkeys mingling?
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    Ended Contest #7 Most Striking Domestic MALE Fowl Contest 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Lucky 1 year old Old English Game Bantam He is not very cooperative and ran into the bushes before I got two more good pics of him.
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    Mystery Predator. Can anyone help me identify?

    I may have too, there's a confirmed case of rabies (in a Fox) in the county.
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    Mystery Predator. Can anyone help me identify?

    My 9 year old is convinced it was a chupecapra. That's enough tv for you, my dear.
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    What Breed are my chickens?

    Does #2 always look that much darker than the #1's,or is that just because she's inside?
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    New Mexico

    Hello, anybody in the Socorro area have a new Banty chick or two to sell? I have a lonely orphan, just pitiful having one tiny chick in the brooder all by his lonesome.
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    Mystery Predator. Can anyone help me identify?

    WARNING: This post is not for the squeamish. Will a raccoon eat most of the body as well as the head? I just found my OEG Banty, who was brooding a clutch, eaten. Couldn't find the head, did find the feet with thigh and leg bones, and the spine, and feathers, and the intestines. Two eggs...
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    eggs starting to hatch !!!! I have some questions

    I must have miscounted the days because two have hatched tonight, that I'm aware of (I am at work). Anybody in the desert sw have any tips on getting the humidity up that high, I have it full of water plus some wet sponges and I am only up to 60 percent. And a vaporizer going.
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    eggs starting to hatch !!!! I have some questions

    Sorry about the repeat posts, I got several "unknown errors" and then multiple posts.
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