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  1. Kate in CT

    Looking for Blue Orpingtons & Black Orpingtons . . .

    No worries about thread jacking . . . The more info we get, the more likely we all are to get the birds we want!
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    Looking for Blue Orpingtons & Black Orpingtons . . .

    Hi, Tony. I'm in East Hampton.
  3. Kate in CT

    Looking for Blue Orpingtons & Black Orpingtons . . .

    MJChickens, Thanks for letting me know you have eggs, but I am NOT set up to incubate! I do have a friend who may be interested though, so I'll past the info along! Thanks
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    Looking for Blue Orpingtons & Black Orpingtons . . .

    I'm looking for anyone breeding black and/or blue Orpingtons in the CT, western MA, RI area. Not looking for show birds . . .I have a small backyard flock with 3 buff orps. I love their personalities and want to add the other Orpington colors to my flock. Any and all help is appreciated...
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    We have a visitor...

    I've always been afraid to use poison to kill rats/mice because I'm afraid of what could happen if something else eats the poisoned vermin. I've checked and I've yet to find a company which guarantees no secondary toxicity. Because of that, I've always used snap traps. Just my two cents...
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    I need brooder ideas ....

    I don't raise chicks on any great scale, but I saw a post where someone said the trough (?) used as a brooder got too hot when it was covered. I used an old screen door to cover my last brooder box. It worked out really well. We weighted down the screen because I was paranoid about varmints...
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    fruit stops the laying of eggs up to 6 months...

    My girls eat fruit all the time . . .they love watermelon in the summer. In fact, many people on the forum suggest feeding icy cold watermelon as a way to cool off birds in the summer. I've given them all kinds of berries (and they've tried to help themselves from our strawberry bed before we...
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    Chicken chores today!

    Wow . . .never thought I'd be jealous reading a list of chores! At the moment, mine mostly involve SNOW. As in, clear the driveway AGAIN, shovel a path to the coop. My birds have been inside for the last few days; when I walked out to the coop this afternoon there was a "welcoming" committee...
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    Wolfhounds

    Just want to throw my two cents in . . . and share 20+ years of experience with sighthounds. Sighthounds (which include Irish Wolfhounds, Borzoi (Russian Wolfhounds), Deerhounds, Whippets, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Salukis, Basenjis, and Greyhounds) are bred to hunt by sight. This means any...
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    Do your chickens wander into the road?? HELP ME

    Harold the hen is our friendliest (and nosiest) BO. She and her cohorts have a couple of "spa" spots in the front yard, but they don't seem inclined to go out in the road. We live on a highly travelled state highway. It's not uncommon to have tractor trailers blow by at 50+ mph. I'm sure...
  11. Kate in CT

    Nooo :( Silverwing

    So sorry . . .for your loss and for your friends' lack of sympathy. Pets come in all shapes and sizes-and we love them no matter what they are.
  12. Kate in CT

    What Special Treat or Yummy Did Your Flock Get Today?

    Today they will get the broccoli plants I'm pulling out of the garden . . .a couple of cooked ears of corn that didn't get eaten . . .and probably some leftover cube steak (but the dogs have dibs).
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    Rooster is picking on my hens

    Wendell (the rooster) is absolutely a peach with the blonde girls . . .he'll actually be in the front yard with the BO's while the other 9 are way out back. He's just over a year old, isn't that too old to be just a bratty kid? I don't know if I'd rehome him because I don't want him to hurt...
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    Rooster is picking on my hens

    I have a mixed flock: 3 Buff Orpington, 6 Partridge Rocks, 2 Columbian Wyandotte, 1 Partridge Cochin, and a mutt rooster. The BO's are the oldest by a couple of months, I'm not sure how old the roooster is-he was a gift-but he is probably younger than the BO's, but older than the other nine...
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    What are your rooster's names?

    Currently, we have a mutt rooster named Wendell. (Would you believe he was a gift from our neighbors?) Wendell is incredibly nasty and on his way out (as soon as I get up the nerve to eliminate him). When I was kid, we had a big beauiful BR roo we named King Tut. However, his name was...
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