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    california - CENTRAL COAST

    It's seemed that way to me too this year. But then again, it could just be that it's taking me longer to 'germinate' this year over last and not the seeds...lol !!! Every season I find I'm planting a little less too. This year I didn't even plant any vegetables, just some flowers that I'm...
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    Puller or roo?

    I'd have to agree with Junebuggena in that your chicken is a pullet. Tail feather direction is not a good indicator at that age (or really at any age for that matter). Rather, you need to look at the shape of the tail feathers individually and not the direction they appear to be growing at the...
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    california - CENTRAL COAST

    And "HI" to you too csaylorchickens... !!! What's on your mind?
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    no crow collars

    Unfortunately, after literally countless attempts at adjusting the 'no crow collar' for tightness and placement (not to mention the fact that I tried it on three different roos), I've come to the upsetting realization that nothing short of a complete and total laryngectomy will EVER keep a...
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    American(Buff, Blue, Lavander,etc.)goose thread! Post pics!

    Thanks @Miss Lydia for appreciating my stories. You know, if that silly little thing called 'life' didn't always demand so much of my time and attention, I always thought that I would have liked to have been a writer...oh well...to dream the impossible dream...
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    American(Buff, Blue, Lavander,etc.)goose thread! Post pics!

    Hi Everyone !!! I haven't been on this site for quite some time now, let alone post anything about my babies, so I guess now's as good a time as any to play catch up! Babies...well they sure aren't babies anymore in the physical sense, but they'll always be 'babies' where it matters most...in...
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    nesting box drama!

    The lineup to use the current 'favorite' nest box at my house is so long and dreary looking that I was thinking of installing one of those 'take a number' machines like they used to have at the butcher shop downtown, until I realized that all I'd be doing is moving the line from one place to...
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    Pekin Duck Club!

    @Pekin1999 ... ...I also had a Cayuga drake that terrorized the poor females in the flock...and good number of the males too !!! In the duck world, they're very open-minded about things like that and especially when young, they tend not to be too terribly concerned with...
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    GOOSE BREEDING THREAD - for breeding, incubating, hatching and rearing.

    Carrosaur...Yes, they are both American Buffs that I got last May as day olds from Metzer's Farms. Gabi laid well over 40 eggs in this, her first season. She even started laying them in her nest a few days before she stopped laying completely...lol !!! I'm hoping that come next year she'll...
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    GOOSE BREEDING THREAD - for breeding, incubating, hatching and rearing.

    Quote: So True !!! But if you build the individual houses all by yourself like I do, it sure is a lot more work (and money !!!), but in the end it's definitely worth the extra effort. Here are a few pictures of my 'babies' that I took yesterday. I gave them a new, ultra-deluxe (compared...
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    GOOSE BREEDING THREAD - for breeding, incubating, hatching and rearing.

    My two American Buff geese free range all day with about a dozen or so hens of various size and they tend to tolerate the chickens much more than than they tend to befriend them. In other words, so long as the chickens know that the geese are the bosses of the yard and not to interrupt them or...
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    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Thank you all for your consoling sentiments !!! As for the question of how it got in...the only thing I can think of is that about a week ago I started putting our geese away a lot later than usual because it stays light here so much longer now and consequently, the chickens get locked up later...
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    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Heard a small cry coming from the coop last night around 1:00am. Sounded all most like a human baby with a slight case of hiccups. Listened at the back door for a minute or two until I heard it again to be sure it really was the chickens. The next time was much louder and I bolted through the...
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    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Rebrascora...it's always hard to lose a pet, even more so when it's a favored one. And I, too, am sorry for your loss and will tip my hat at sunset to her, paying homage to her memory... -kim-
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    What do you wish you'd done differently with your duck housing?

    @pigcoon ... ...The reason you normally put down landscape cloth before you lay down your river rock (or whatever), is so the weeds won't be able to grow up through your rocks. If you get a thick enough brand of cloth it truly acts as an inpentatrable barrier between the earth...
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