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    Transporting set eggs?

    I have a question for you all. There is a seller local to me that sells goose eggs. I told her I wanted to get some from her, but it would have to be next week. She told me that she had 4 ready to go, but I responded that I was busy this weekend. I told her to go ahead and sell those and I'd...
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    Rotating garden/ chicken run

    Thank you for your responses. 4 the birds - Thanks for the pictures as it really helps me visualize how this setup works. We are looking at having a minimum of a half acre garden next year. There is a local restaurant that is very interested in purchasing any excess, so we will likely...
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    Rotating garden/ chicken run

    After coming back to this site from a long hiatus of chicken ownership, I am trying to find information about rotating a garden with chickens. My intent is to make a 1 acre fenced chicken run that is divided down the middle. Chickens can be run on one half while the other half is planted out...
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    Will underground fence keep in a LGD?

    My pyr comes from working lines but is a pet. I am sure an underground fence would not work on her. Punishment does not phase her in the slightest. She has been the hardest to train of my dogs, very "independent" and not interested in following commands unless she decides its worth her time...
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    Getting a Great Dane... *He is home now*

    Hi! I just had to log in and say how much I love my Dane. She's so friendly and good with kids, if a little overactive for a 95 lb dog. I feed her Blue Buffalo, as do many of the owners in my local dane rescue. There is something more human about danes than most other breeds of dog, in my...
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    white breasted nuthatch

    I don't mean to incite anyone with this but here goes. Most birds (big exception is carrion-eating raptors) have an underdeveloped sense of smell, so handling the eggs is not going to deter the mother. It is a myth that birds will not return to nests that have been touched by humans, most...
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    Adopted hen needs a name!

    The three fairies in Sleeping Beauty are Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. So I vote Merryweather.
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    My first baby goats!!

    Quote: The OP said that the chicken coop is approximately 30 sqft. So it is roughly 4x7 or 5x6. If the building was 15x15 it would have 225 sqft, plenty of room to split up 8 chickens and 2 goats. Personally, I would build a secondary structure for the goats, and remember to build it...
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    Could I keep a llama with our three horses?

    Growing up we had three llamas, and the male was by baby. He would come up on one side and drape his neck around yours and purr in your ear. He was such a sweetheart; I will definitely have llamas again. However, I don't know that I will keep them with horses, because my darling was killed...
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    Time to try to make my easier...So sick of SWEEPING!!

    We have a Dyson and the thing is a godsend! We have a great dane that sheds more than everything else combined, but it is quick and easy to run the vacuum around and get it taken care of. We got the Animal model, and it doesn't have the ball, because I read several reviews of those models...
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    Sexlinked Silkies??

    chicklady63, Do you see a higher mortality rate among fertilized eggs that you incubate at the lower temperature than those at a standard temperature? In mammals, males are the weaker sex and are more likely to die prior to adulthood. But in birds the females are theoretically the weaker sex...
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    Sexlinked Silkies??

    Well, most of these guys get culled at some point or another, don't they? The ratio of chicks is 50/50, but most people don't keep their flocks at this. If I am willing to pay 3-4x the price for a sexed female and leave the breeder with her brother (assuming a 50/50 ratio) I guess I am...
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    Sexlinked Silkies??

    I was just wondering if anyone has attempted to make a cross like this. People are ALWAYS looking for silkie pullets, and this would be one way to guarantee sex upon hatching. Now I know that the offspring would not be a standard color, but for us cityfolk who can't have roosters this would be...
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    Help with Burleson, TX city ordinances

    We just moved to the neighborhood about nine months ago, and have never really met our neighbors. We are on a corner lot so we really only have two attached neighbors. I have never even seen the people behind us, but we do see the ones beside us come and go. We actually had a little...
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    Help with Burleson, TX city ordinances

    I am trying to muddle through all of this jargon to determine how illegal it would be for me to get chickens. The local ordinances say that you cannot keep fowl within 100 feet of an occupied building, but this is for land zoned for agriculture. Our house is actually a single family dwelling...
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