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    Chicken math prevailed!

    gotcha ;)
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    Comment by 'Melbeforeyou' in article 'How To Clip Trim The Feather Wings Of Your Chicken To Prevent Flight'

    no clipping wings on any bird does not hurt them, feels a lot like when you get your hair cut (nothing at all). .. oops someone already said that haha. As long as you dont clip the blood quills in the feather you are fine.
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    Comment by 'Melbeforeyou' in article 'How To Clip Trim The Feather Wings Of Your Chicken To Prevent Flight'

    Yes you can, as a matter of fact a lot of people do to keep them on the property or in an enclosure.
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    Chicken Whisperer

    Chicken Whisperer
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    Chicken math prevailed!

    Why would you cull them? I have had "meat birds" as pets, and they turned out to be the best pet chickens there was, along with being a good extra large egg layer.
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    Any help guessing breed and sex? part 2

    Alabama
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    Any help guessing breed and sex? part 2

    It seems that you have a pretty common group here, imo i see buff orps, rir, maybe a wyndott or 2 a polish or may be a Cream crested legbar, a barred rock or plymoth barred. But, I am surely not the breed specialist here haha.
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    Any help guessing breed and sex? part 2

    They are not that rare here, they have them at the poultry auction all the time, place is swimming with Araucana :)
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    Taking a Chicken for a Walk

    Oh OK interesting i'll take a look thanks :)
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    Taking a Chicken for a Walk

    So you are training therapy birds? :)
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    Prolapsed Drake Penis, I think (pics)

    It almost looks like a parasite. Definitely gross that is for sure.
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    Prolapsed Drake Penis, I think (pics)

    I'll be honest here, I have no idea what that is. It almost looks like a sac of blood and/or puss and blood, but I am no vet, but it looks like just a growth of infection. Again not sure. And i don't blame you for not wanting to mess with it anymore. But i would give it a few days, if it doesn't...
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    Taking a Chicken for a Walk

    I thought i saw the game in him. :)
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    Taking a Chicken for a Walk

    Interesting. I guess i never really had a "special technique" when it comes to training chickens, they just seem to want to do it. I have either gotten lucky with the birds i have trained or, i just have a special bond with them in general. I do know that the people at the poultry auction call...
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    Taking a Chicken for a Walk

    Wow he has a very good recall :) and his name is Tap? :) cute. Well you got yourself a good chicken :) how old is he btw? and what breed is he?
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