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    Strange calcium deposit on egg shell

    I'm having a similar issue with just 1 of 12 hens, she lays eggs with brittle shell that have calcium lumps on the top. The other 12 are laying fine eggs. The hen in question is an easter egger.
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    WHAT KIND OF "PEOPLE" FOOD CAN CHICKENS EAT?

    Let's all calm down and discuss this over a chocolate cake!
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    WHAT KIND OF "PEOPLE" FOOD CAN CHICKENS EAT?

    You know... 87% of statistics are just made up on the spot! My girls get whatever scraps are around. Who the heck has spare chocolate just laying around? Silliness!
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    Do cats kill chickens?

    I agree 100% although i'm not one of those nauseating self-hating humans. When it is a wild species, of COURSE it is our duty to find a better way. I would shoot myself before I'd shoot a bobcat or a fox, or a lynx or a bear... That being said. I will shoot a house cat without even thinking...
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    Do cats kill chickens?

    Cats are very bad for any ecosystem, they are vicious killers who are relentless and are responsible for many species going endangered or even extinct. I say if there's no collar on the thing, shoot it right between the eyes. If there is a collar on it, trap it and deliver the trap to the...
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    Calling on urbanites - anyone free range the flock?

    If my cat is any indication... you shouldn't have a problem. The chickens routinely face off with the cat and the cat always loses. If you have chicks, it is an entirely different story, and considering the havoc stray cats wreak on native birds, lizards and snakes, it's no bad thing to send...
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    Should we add a rooster to our flock?

    you *totally* don't understand chicken mating. o.....m.....g.....
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    Why not Grouse?

    Here in SW Colorado we see a lot of Dusky Grouse. Some people call them "tree chickens." They kinda look like chickens.. hell, they certainly TASTE like chickens. I know that our chickens in the coop have come down from the Jungle Fowl, but wonder, has anyone tried to breed Grouse into some...
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    New BYC death on slow connections, slow computers; site crashes and hangs web browser...

    The security stuff is really quite simple too. Things are turned off, ports are closed, and software doesn't just automatically execute (think Microsoft Outlook) Mac OSX does have some sort of copy protection.. but if you're in some of those dark alleys of the internet, I'm sure you can...
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    New BYC death on slow connections, slow computers; site crashes and hangs web browser...

    Give it a whirll... That website will give you a good headstart. I don't get into the PC vs. Mac thing because it's silly, but MacOSX is really the nicest operating system I've ever used. It has the stability and security of Unix and the good looks and charm of MacOS. While computer...
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    New BYC death on slow connections, slow computers; site crashes and hangs web browser...

    That is the beauty of a Hackintosh... you can run Mac OSX on most PC hardware, however, there are some specifics and a little fenagling to be done. It's a great project though! http://www.hackintosh.com/
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    I want to See Your Flowers! (Caution, pic heavy!)

    Coriflora hirsutissima Iris missouriensis Toxicoscordion venonosum (Lovely name, don't eat it.)
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    New BYC death on slow connections, slow computers; site crashes and hangs web browser...

    You do know that Mac OSX is just a pretty version of Unix (BSD Flavor) which is the OS upon which Linux is based, right? You can have *nix + Photoshop all day long.
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    Ameraucana or Easter Egger?

    You see why I married this woman?!? I wanted to name them all "Arthur" after Arthur Digby Sellers.
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    New BYC death on slow connections, slow computers; site crashes and hangs web browser...

    I just wanted to chime in with something other than a snarky video... I have a first generation Mac Pro built in late 2007. It has a medicore graphics card as it used to be a server, and is powered by 2 dual-core Xeons. I use a semi dated version of Mac OS (10.6.8) and Google Chrome. My...
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