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    food pecking

    Any advice on how to keep chickens from digging and pecking all their food out of the feeder? They're wasting a bunch!!
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    Bantam breed with frequently layed, easy to peel eggs?

    This may sound strange! I keep bantams just for the ability to make small, "popper", sized deviled eggs. I have Japanese bantams (whose eggs peel much easier than my other standard breeds), but don't lay very often. I am looking for advice on a bantam sized bird that frequently lays small...
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    Can silkies get along with other chickens?

    Or will the others beat them up too bad? I have standard EE's, standard Barred Rocks, a standard light brahma, and Japanese bantams. I want to increase my # of bantams, but don't know if silkies are the way to go. I am thinking about them because they are easy to get and they should lay much...
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    My chicken has no feathers over her boobies, I need help!

    This might not be very helpful seeing that she's not broody if she's still laying, but my Japanese bantam hens go broody quite regularly. I always kick them off the nest and take the eggs, but they will keep trying for a week or so. Usually by day three they are featherless on their lower...
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    Dead chicken/another sick - vet thinks Marek's

    The irony is that the only person I have ever given birds to is the vet who is doing the diagnosis. She has 4 birds from me. It's a good thing for me; she has a vested interest in figuring out what's going on at my place.
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    Dead chicken/another sick - vet thinks Marek's

    Talked to the vet again and she thinks it's Marek's. From what I read that's bad news for my flock. All the online resources I've found says there is no treatment. Does anyone know of anything I can do to help the remainder of my flock?
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    Dead chicken/another sick - vet thinks Marek's

    Quote: They eat normal layer pellets along with table scraps. They do pick at my garden vegetables, and do sometimes eat tomatoes and pumpkins that don't look that good to me; but they all do it. I'm really not sure what it could be if it is bad food. I am still getting 5-7 eggs a day out...
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    Dead chicken/another sick - vet thinks Marek's

    I had a 5 month old pullet die this past week and now a 6 month old cockerel is showing the same symptoms. They have lost a lot of weight despite continuing to eat. They have lost some motor function (they won’t fly up to roost, if set on their side they will have trouble standing). I took...
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    Food importance?

    Local feedstores don't carry turkey feed; only NONmedicated gamebird feed. What is more important, the medication in the chick starter or the protein in the gamebird starter? Which feed should I be starting with if these are my only options?
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    oleander

    I've noticed that my chickens will pick at anything green that grows or falls in the run when they are locked in, but when they get their free range time they are much more particular about what plants they eat. From your post it sounds like they could only access it while free ranging. If...
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    pale comb and small bugs

    Have a small flock of 16 chickens. One barred rock hen's comb and face are pale compared to the other chickens. She acts normal other than that. Checked her out last night and foud a few (not a bunch) very small bugs crawling around in the feathers just above her feet. I didn't find any...
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    incubation question

    Thank you both. That was very helpful!
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    incubation question

    I know that guineas take a week longer to incubate than chickens, but do some of the developmental milestones occur at the same times? Can I candle at day 10 to check for development the same as with chickens?
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    dewormer question

    It was recommended to me to deworm my laying chickens with "safeguard". This is a equine dewormer and a gave each chicken a very small dose. Afterward I saw a warning on the label that the product is not to be used on horses intended for food. The chickens are not going to be food, but their...
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    Guinea keets f/s Indiana~assorted colors

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