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    Favorite *Clean* Chicken Waterer?

    oooops! Forgot to mention that our birds were adults when we introduced it and it took them all of 5 minutes to figure it out. I took each bird and tapped its beak against the nipple to get it wet and they understood. Birds will also copy each other so, once a couple of birds get it, the rest...
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    Favorite *Clean* Chicken Waterer?

    Sooooo.....To add my two cents. We have vertical nipples inserted into the bottom of a pail that has a lid. The pail is hung outside in their run. We have only a few birds so this set-up works for us. The vertical nipples were inexpensive, available at our feed store, and have very few...
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    Red Wigglers? Scraps? Other goodies?

    Some one once recommended to us that you should only give scraps/suppliments/treats in the afternoon so that they have had the bulk of their daily food from a ballanced source in the morning. This seems like good sense to me. We have also found recently that, by supplimenting too much with...
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    Homemade corn, wheat, and soy free layer feed

    Thank you for posting the link. It contains exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
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    Feed questions...

    My husband isn't crazy about the whole meal worm thing, so I just keep it away from him. He knows they are there, but..........out of sight out of mind. They are easy and inexpensive and allow me to use lower protien layer pellets and to suppliment with scraps and garden veggies.
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    Our Guide to Colour and Pattern Genetics in Geese.

    Wow! It finally makes sense! I have been reading references to color genetics in birds but couldn't understand them. I was trying to apply what I already knew about human genetics to those references with very confusing results. In particular, I couldn't make any sense out of your Buff...
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    Goose Incubation & Hatching Guide - Completed!!!!

    Quote: Good for you to do your homework, will you be keeping the chickens and ducks after they hatch? and Some of the birds will be going home with various families who either already have flocks or were preparing to start one, and the rest are going to a local farm that has supplied some...
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    Goose Incubation & Hatching Guide - Completed!!!!

    Thank you Soooooo much for all this information. It has been more extensive and thorough than anything else I have found, either on line or in print. I am about to lead a school group in a mass incubation and hatching of chicken and duck eggs and I know nothing! I have never incubated eggs...
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    Sex-links - all of the fun, non-technical stuff

    Quote: Your birds are cute. I love how much personality they can have. I have the opportunity to chicken(and goat)-sit next week for friends who are going to be away and the kids and I are looking forward to it. I am especially looking forward to getting a better idea of the day-to-day...
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    Canadians check in here....

    HI All! I'm on Vancouver Island in BC and preparing to hatch our first chickens! Anyone else in the central Island area?
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    Sex-links - all of the fun, non-technical stuff

    Quote: Your Darla sounds like a sweety. I hope we are so fortunate with our birds! Eventually I would like to add a Maran to the flock just for the dark eggs. That and an EE, of course. I think it will be fun for the kids to collect eggs in a range of colors. One day, I will choose breeds...
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    Sex-links - all of the fun, non-technical stuff

    Quote: Ahhhh. Ok. I should probably stop obsessing about this and just pick one. I need to move on with getting the yard ready to build a coop. I just found two wood doors at the re-store that will be perfect for the Coop-That-Has-Yet-To-Be-Designed. (That is not to mention building and...
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    Sex-links - all of the fun, non-technical stuff

    Quote: My experience has been the Reds are friendlier. I also believe they are more productive - start laying earlier, lay more consistently, and lay larger eggs. But there is wide variation in sex links, depending on the parentage; as draye pointed out there are several combinations that will...
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    Sex-links - all of the fun, non-technical stuff

    Quote: The offspring of Sexlink to Sexlink will not hatch out sexlink. You will need a red rooster (Rhode Island Red or NewHampshire) and silver based hens ( Delaware, Silver Penciled Rocks, Silver LAced Wyandottes, etc. Try yhis link...
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    Guess what my suprise chick is from McMurray....................

    Thanks so much for letting us know. I was beginning to worry that I wouldn't find out the answer!
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