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    Eastern Shore (Delmarva) -- You out there?

    Welcome to the world of chickens
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    What bushes can I plant in my run that are safe and hardwearing?

    I have a couple of cedar trees that I keep cut down to bush size and a crap apple tree that I keep at about 6 feet since my run is completely covered.
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    Can modenas live with chickens?

    I have all the birds listed in my profile (except the cockatoo) together. They have a very large flight pen but they roost together and I have never had any issues with them. I have even allowed the pigeons and Seramas to hatch out young with out any problem.
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    Where did they go?

    When I was younger there were so many ring neck pheasants in the north east primarly Pennsylvania that you saw them every where you went. Now there is none. Does anyone know what happened to them. I am thinking of raising some but want to know why the wild ones disappeared first. I also noticed...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I had two broody Seramas sharing a nest and apparently two other laying in the same nest. I generally do not bother them at all when they are sitting. Yesterday the hens got off the nest and had 6 fluffy butts so I took the rest of the eggs out and candled them. By the way there was about 25...
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    Nipple waterers for chicks

    There are a lot of poultry houses in our area ( like Perdue) and they have been using nipple drinkers for a while now and do not seem to have any problems with them on a large scale operation. I use one in my one pen and the chickens do not seem to have any problems, but if you give them the...
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    Ringneck Pheasant info page *warning lots of PICS*

    I was raised in SE PA and we always had pheasants everywhere but they seem to have vanished does anyone no why. Also I now live on the Eastern Shore on MD where ther are no pheasants but it sounds like the right habitat for them. It is marshy and wooded with ditches running through all the farm...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Hi all, I have been away for awhile because my wife took sick with cancer and past away in June. I usually let my hens do all the hatching, but I thought my grand children might enjoy watching some chicks hatch. So I bought one of those little 19.99 incubators that comes with quail eggs and a...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    My broody hen usually only sticks with her chicks about 3 to4 weeks and then she lets them go on their own, and they seem todo fine.
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    ~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

    Can anyone tell me why my 1 1/2 year old roo is letting his tail go to the side. He seems healthy.
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    My Serama was suppose to hatch this coming Sunday, but when I checked her last night she had left the nest and had two little fuzzy butts following her around. Tried to get pictures but she kept getting between me and the chicks.
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    Eastern Shore (Delmarva) -- You out there?

    Does anyone on the Eastern Shore have Pigeons?
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I had my first 2 broodies and left them both in with the flock. Between the 2 they hacth 8 and the others did bother them. the little ones will be 3 weeks tomorrow and the one hen has four more eggs already.
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    How many here are actual backyarders vs. Farmers?

    i am a backyarder live in a small town with 3/4 acre, there are corn fields behind our property, but we are in the town limits.
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    Trouble selling Seramas?

    I got my Seramas for a hobby and do not intend to sell them. The Serama is a pet chicken or a show bird and with the economy the way it is a lot of people are looking for chickens they can use. Maybe if there were more shows around the country it would be worth raising birds strictly for show...
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