Recent content by Pat Porter

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    Tips On Selling Eggs By The Road

    TOPChicken, I would suggest that you place your sign perpendicular to the road. It is difficult to read a sign that is parallel to your vehicle when you are wathcing the road ahead. And you should paint your info on both sides. Colored letters are easier to read when outlined in black.
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    What Breed of Chickens Do You Have?

    10 Black Langshans .. 7 pullets, 3 cockerels.
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    What Have You Learned About Poultry Since Joining BYC?

    What I appreciate most is learning about fermenting the chicken food. I read about it in a couple books but thought - yuck! But a day came when I could not find pellets and had to settle for crumbles and knew my hens would be insulted "We need pieces" beaking all the fines out of the dish...
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    Ripley, the 4 legged chicken!?

    A mythical creature ... like unicorns, pegasus. griffin, centaur.
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    TSC chicks keep dying despite ideal conditions

    I saw a notice from, I think, from McMurray Hatchery that they had received from USPS telling that shipments of live animals should be postponed due to longer than usual delivery times. I thought - How can that work for day-old chicks? You order them well in advance they hatch and are shipped...
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    Langshan Thread!!!

    She is going to be a pretty hen. :)
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    Langshan Thread!!!

    Agreed! Hello lady bird! But her sheen is not green. The sheen on a Langshan is green. So I wonder about her breed. Does she ever carry her tail high?
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    Thanks for adding me today!

    Thanks for the warm welcome, Everybody ... and Happy New Year!
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    Mystery Chicken Breed...Langshans? Copper Marans?

    Sorry about posting the original post twice - I'm new here and learning - or maybe not. - Pat
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    Mystery Chicken Breed...Langshans? Copper Marans?

    RrooKk, I think you probable have Langshans here, or , at least part Langshans. There are feathers in a line down the outside of the legs. I think I'm seeing those feathers on your birds. I know that is an important feature of Langshans. I have 16 7-month old Langshans. I got them from...
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    Thanks for adding me today!

    What a wonderful opportunity you provide! My name: Pat Porter. Officially joined today although I've been lurking for months. I live in Oregon just about 20 miles east of Portland in the Cottrell neighborhood. On June 2nd, I acquired my third flock of chickens, 16 Black Langshans day old chicks...
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