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    Hi everyone --- my name is Oaknim and I'm half-Korean and the first born, which means I get the Korean name (my brother and sister have "American" names). Anyways, I live on 4 acres in Kansas and run a farm animal rescue with my husband, Josh. We have two children, an 18 month-old Holy terror...
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    Who REALLY loves their chickens?!?!?!

    Oh you're not crazy (nor alone)! I kiss my chickens, cuddle them, pet them, sing to them, talk to them (like they talk back), host little chicken parties and so on. And if and when they die, they get a funeral and a flower or bush planted over them in rememberance. So up the crazy scale - I...
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    dogs and flies

    I spray ours daily with a mixture of DE, lemongrass oil, lavender oil, and thyme oil. They smell good and it keeps all insects away. ~ Oaknim
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    Open coop with live in dog

    We had a skunk incident three days ago and much to my chagrin, the dogs killed the poor thing. It was in with the ducks and geese and I tried to scare it away, but it only wanted to fight me. So I ran like the dickens and locked everyone up, hoping he'd go find somewhere else to snack...
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    Lost my shadow and it hurts. (Sorry this message is so long!)

    Hugs to you sweetie! I know how you feel - when one of our chicken killer dogs murdered my little Ancona that we named Minorca (that's what we were told she was) I went on a screaming/crying fit for a couple of hours. I loved her dearly, she was very tiny compared to everyone else and they all...
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    Just sharing my pics

    Pretty babies and a pretty yard, too! I have a barred rock that is about two years old, but she's still my baby. I cuddle her everyday! I like your big black blob. ~ Oaknim
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    For those who think spelling is important!!!

    This is killing me - I'm forever being called a nerd from my friends because I'm always (jokingly) correcting their grammar and punctuation. It's my mother's fault, she'd make me practice spelling/English for hours, all while tapping my wrist with the syllables. Augh! Now, I'm quite obnoxious...
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    Our very first hawk.....didn't last too long~

    Wow 4H Mom, thanks for almost killing me this beautiful Sunday morning... Soooo glad ChickenDuck is okay and give that kitty a kiss for me! Our barn cat (Barn Kitty) likes to snuggle up in the nest boxes, which gets him a chicken cussing from the girls, but he used to actually curl up with...
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    Fertilized Eggs... Edible?

    That's funny. One time, our head roo laid himself an "egg" right after he walked out of the coop and DH goes, "Holy crap! I think Big Daddy laid an egg!" So I smirked and said, "Go get it!" And just as he sunk his fingers into it I yelled, "It's poop you idiot!" Purty funny shtuff... ~ Oaknim
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    The best duck

    I know that Pekins can't fly and I've heard that Campbells aren't that swell at taking off either, but I'm not one hundred percent on that one - they're also good egg layers. My Pekins waddle around and spend a lot of time swimming or lying down in the grass, no flying, they're too pudgy. I...
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    Fertilized Eggs... Edible?

    You're too much, missouridave. And you had me going at first...I was looking at the screen going, "WHAT?!" I think I'm going to be mean and tell my friends' kids that you can bury a fertilized egg and grow a chicken tree...hmmm...where's that dang smiley twiddling it's evil mustasche?! ~ Oaknim
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    Fertilized Eggs... Edible?

    Um...I can't honestly say. It probably depends on the hens and roosters. I think the rule of thumb is 8-12 hens per rooster for large breeds and 12-16 hens per rooster for smaller breeds. Something along those lines. But we have 4 roos that share 12 hens at the moment. I know that three of...
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    `cock eggs' part deux

    That's a hilarious picture. It makes me think that the male told the female to go look at what was on the feeder and she either says, "What do you think I am? An Ostrich?!" or "I'm not eating this crap!" ~ Oaknim
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    Fertilized Eggs... Edible?

    As long as you collect eggs daily, I highly doubt you'll open up an egg with a baby inside. People who eat our eggs haven't said that they detect a difference between fertilized and unfertilized. An old farm friend of mine says she has to pick out the "rooster snot" from fertilized eggs...
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    *SOB* Raid tonight! Murder Mystery!!! 6 wounded alive so far found

    When our chickens were attacked, our head rooster did his best to protect them and he lost his entire tail - literally - it was ripped off whole - with the skin AND bone - and some of his wing feathers and nis neck feathers. I'm thinking that he eventually gave up on trying to fight the dogs...
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