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    looking to buy chickens

    hello, I'm glad to have heard from you thanks. can you tell me do you know the sexes of your birds? we bought 10 pullet BR's and he swore they were hens and we now have 8 roosters. that we dont need. but would be interested in several of your different breeds, but I need positive hens. check...
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    Help - chicken mites

    yes it sounds like mites. and these are bad for ur chickens. if left untreated can cause death. same as chicken lice. but mites r more of a reddish, if you leave your coop dark and go in with a flash light you'll see little grayish ones run from the light thats their babies(mites). best...
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    looking to buy chickens

    I'm looking to buy 8-10 barred rock HENS. also I'm looking for a couple or so of the new jersey giants, & a couple RIR, young but old enough to know for sure the sex. see that happend we bought 10 pullet hens from a traders fair and as time goes we had one that passed and now we can plainly hear...
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    When do yours go in the coop at night?

    Quote: hello well we have many chickens and the one you've got roostin on your motorcycle trailer u need to put him the coop untill he'll do in or she will to by itself or other wise thats were your chicken should roost at nite, if your having trouble gettin them all in it took my husband 3...
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    ANY STEEL WORKERS OUT THERE???

    Quote: I'm truely sorry about your news, life is ruff enough with a job and is very hard on a family, I may not be much help but my husband works in a steel factory called PDF, but we in Indiana,Brazil small town but in just our little town we have 3 or 4 steel fab shops and Terre Haute,In...
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    have to get rid of my chickens

    I would love to take your chickens, my hubby & I are wanting more. we have a coop that will house up to 50 birds. and were short a few. we live in Indiana and we have heat lights we keep on our birds at night. so before 11am we have 4-6 eggs and then by the end of the day we usually get 6-8 by...
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    how much space per chicken

    I have a 5 month old barred rock hen, she has developed a swallon eye, well around it and it makes her eye kinda closed, none of the rest of the flock pick on her. she eats drinks and roams all day, till nap time. so I heard Terramycin is good for eye infections, which I believe she has so could...
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