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    Bald butts on half my flock...

    Thanks for the tips. I will go and sit with them tomorrow after cleaning to see it I can figure out the fully feathered bully. Also going to see what's available for pest control. Even if the culprits aren't parasites, it wouldn't hurt anyway. Set up a camera, too. I'm curious anyway as to what...
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    Bald butts on half my flock...

    One of the girls does have some blood. The rest of them are "clean." I did a healthy round of diatomaceous earth a few weeks ago, but a lot of rain. Wouldn't hurt to reapply, huh? I'll talk to my feed store about more aggressive measures. I don't have a game cam, but I do have a go-pro. My...
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    Bald butts on half my flock...

    This is Audrey Hepburn. This is her butt. Half of my flock looks like this. I just got done working a stretch of 7 shifts where I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark. I do my best with the girls when these shift rotations happen. Anyway, day off today and I am shocked at what I'm...
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    Can't find affordable sprouting seeds

    I found a seed company and talked to the owner. They move and bag seed from farmers and a lot ends up on the floor. They sweep it into bins and end up composting much of it. It's usually mixed seed: millet, oats, and wheat mostly. We came to an agreement. I shovel the seed into bags and they...
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    Being held and non laying

    I am by no means an expert. My family raised birds when I was a kid (pheasants, quail, chuckers, Canada geese, ducks, turkeys, and pea fowl... Haha no chickens) but I have been away from the farm scene for a long time. This spring I got some chicks. I didn't spend as much time with them when...
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    Hello from the icebox of the nation!

    Are you in International Falls? I live just east of Ranier! It's my first season raising chickens. You've raised them before here? We should get together sometime and chat chicken.
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    Colorful Egg Package. What did I get?

    Great read! Thanks for the info!
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    Colorful Egg Package. What did I get?

    That's why I call them roasters! They were all two or three days old when I got them, little puffballs. Got them all at the same time.
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    Colorful Egg Package. What did I get?

    Yes, my own little dinosaurs.
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    Coop is done! Chickens are in it!

    Coop is done! Chickens are in it!
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    Colorful Egg Package. What did I get?

    Hello BYC! My first flock and first post! My chicken lady had a snag in her incubator so I bought a "Colorful Egg Package" from Stomberg's Hatchery on the fly. I told them I wasn't picky but wanted cold hardy birds since I live in Northern Minnesota (I can literally see Canada from my house)...
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    Waiting for my chickens and ducks... And for the world to thaw...

    Waiting for my chickens and ducks... And for the world to thaw...
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