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    Lookin' for a Welsummer Cockerel or Rooster

    Looking for a Welsummer cockerel or rooster for my 8 welsummer hennies. Prefer npip. Im in Southwest Ohio. Must be a pure welsummer, no mixes please.
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    European Starlings for Sale

    A pic
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    European Starlings for Sale

    I think I can’t sell these guys because I caught them wild As adults hogging up all my chicken feed. What to do! I have about 10 adults and I don’t want to kill them but they are pooping up my chickens water and eating all thier food!
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    Incubator fell during hatch HELP!

    The last one with the membrane, would be good to read up the Article section on Assited hatching on this site. For a quick rundown, Dont assist as long as the membrane has veins. On exposed membrane, but bacitracin or neosporin (with NO pain relief additive in it) to wet the membrane so you can...
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    Topic of the Week - When Do Pullets Begin Laying?

    My welsummer pullets officially stopped being freeloaders today! I got two eggs at 15 weeks from my 12 pullets. :wee One was a (small) brown double yolker, and the other was a nice speckled egg. The clues were the past week or so they were starting to squat for me when I went in their run, and...
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    Topic of the Week - When Do Pullets Begin Laying?

    I have 12 welsummer pullets and a few of them are starting to do the sqaut when I come in the coop run, so I have the nest box ready with the ceramic egg in them to show them where to lay. They hatched in late January so are just about 3.5 months old now. Many of them have gotten very bright red...
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    Who is against no-crow collars?

    I live on acreage where Roos are allowed and want to keep them behind my house so I can easily access/ Enjoi them. I won’t do a crow collar, it seems so unnatural. Roosters are such handsome creatures and were created to crow! However right behind my house means I’m in hearing range on neighbors...
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    Who is against no-crow collars?

    Chickens kill bugs 🤔
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Leghorn

    I think this is the Exchequer leghorn color..they are mottled. Very hard to find in the states! (I have looked)..seem to be very popular in Europe
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    Grocery store eggs series 2021

    What an awesome thread and great outcome! Thanks for sharing this journey!
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    Chick getting weak, stopped eating

    Thanks I’ll try that, but he didn’t even try to eat scrambled egg I just tried to give it. Hard to get him to open his beak at all, but he did drink for me earlier.
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    Chick getting weak, stopped eating

    I have a chick about 5 days old I noticed had pasty but this morning so I cleaned it up and put him back in the brooder. (He was staying under the hot plate).This afternoon his bootie is clear but his head was hanging down and he was sitting with his wings down and butt in the air under the...
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    CHICKS HATCHING! NEED ADVICE! URGENTLY!

    Glad if I could help! Post pics when they hatch! Praying all went/goes well!
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    January 2021 Hatch-A-Long

    Overdue for an update.. Most of the 2nd batch of 14 eggs hatched out on Tuesday . One was a late quitter, and two needed a partial assist. So 13 out of 14 eggs that went to lockdown hatched! ~92% hatch rate... not bad for eggs that went to 7 different postal facilities on their way to me before...
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    CHICKS HATCHING! NEED ADVICE! URGENTLY!

    The paper towel in the tub looks like its under water. Can you soak it in hot water, wring it out and crumple it up, then and place it back in the bin? The surface area of the paper towel crumpled up is what generates more humidity. Yes, the membranes in the pipped eggs may dry out and cause...
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