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    Neighbor dogs

    I agree with you. I just started reading this thread because of my neighbor dogs. My neighbor got these puppies a year ago, now that they're older, they are letting them run loose. I've never said anything till Friday I found the boxer staring into my chicken run/coop. So I walked them home...
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    Marek's vaccination complication

    Realsis, thank you for your concern. The chick did not make it, it died during the night. I kept praying it was just temporarily in shock, or a temporary side effect, but it wasn't. What's puzzling is that when I read the symptoms of Mareks, the paralysis, a stiff leg, that's how the chick...
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    Marek's vaccination complication

    Yes, we mixed a couple of cc's of dilutant into the little freezed-dried vaccine, and then poured that mix into the 1000 ml bottle of dilultant, then drew up .2ml of that for the injection. The vaccine was ordered from the nearest supplier I can find, took only a day to be delivered. It was...
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    Marek's vaccination complication

    Correctiion, we used a small insulin syringe.
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    Marek's vaccination complication

    Our broody hen has just hatched 3 chicks in the past 48-24 hours. We just gave one chick the mareks vaccination and it went all wrong. I gently held the chick while my husband gave the injection, .2 ml subderal using a very small needle (a TB needle/syringe) as we saw in a youtube video...
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    Consolidated Kansas

    I'm in Topeka. Willing to try Bantams, don't know if they'll beat up my buffs
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    Consolidated Kansas

    I have a broody buff, but no roo. Would like to try to let her hatch some babies. Does anyone have any spare fertilized buff eggs? I know it doesn't have to be buffs, but I just got rid of a mean RIR and barr rock hen, and a crazy americana rooster that just kept bullying and beating up my...
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    wanting fertized bantoms or buff eggs

    Hello, everyone. I'm more of a reader than a poster. Wondering if anyone knows where I can get a couple of banty or buff eggs to put underneath my broody buff. She's not budging so I figured why not give it a try. I'd be willing to drive within 2 hours distance from Topeka to pick up. I...
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Need help. I have an aggressive rhode island red hen, 1 1/2 y.o., who keeps bullying a younger buff orph. I have only 4 hens, and whenever I try to put the hens together, the RI red goes after this poor buff, jumps on her and plucks her feathers out. The poor buff is afraid to come off her...
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    Comment by 'LJack' in article 'The Definite Guide To Roosters'

    We have 2 hens, each about a year and a half old - a Barred Rock and a Rhode Island Red. They were raised together and get along well. This spring, we got 2 Buff hens, a black sex link hen, and what we thought was an Ameracuna hen. Turns out, she was a he - a roo. The 4 were raised together...
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    Mealworm farming

    Awesome idea! I used to buy a small container of live mealy worms from the local wild bird feed store for about $8 for 50-100, but lately been buying dried ones from Lowes lately. I feed my chickens lots of raisens and veg scrapes, and got the worms for the blue birds winterizing here, but the...
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Please disregard my last remark, thought Ivy was your chicken. That's what I get for multitasking
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Ivy is beautiful! What kind of chicken is she?
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Chookschick, How are your silkies with other breeds? My son would like to add 1-2 to our small stock, but I'm afraid our older barr rock hen who's the dominate one will pick on them being a smaller bird. She good with out RI Red, but seemed to have bullied our buff (not sure if it's because...
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Tweety, Where are you ordering your chicks from? I live in Topeka, got a barr rock, rhode island red and buff orph from TSC last spring. My buff just died today, so I'm thinking about adding a couple more this spring. Not going back to TSC, they've been really rude. I have a friend who...
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