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    Our King and Queens coop/run.

    It's beautiful! May I ask for your paint/stain colors?
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    Polish Temperament/General Intelligence?

    Pretty girl, your Hattie. My friend had a buff Polish rooster. Spike was his name. Stalking me, his game. He was obsessed with me - would hide behind trash cans eying me, then move up on me hiding behind statuary and such on the way up. My friend thought that my blonde ponytail was...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    Oh the Golden Cuckoos are so pretty! Do you have photos? I believe I have 2 White Cochins, 2 BCM's (feathered legs), 2 (blue) Cuckoo Marans (feathered legs) and then I'm not sure. I have two more light grey chicks with clean, blue legs (Andalusians?) and another med/dark silver chick...
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    Urgent! How do I keep my 4 chooks in suburbia safe from a nearby snake?

    We're having a tropical storm coming in shortly, so I ran out in the rain this morning to secure the door on the pullet's coop to run, was coming back around the outside of their little coop and almost stepped on that same kind of snake. He'd obviously been trying to get in to my little 6 week...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    Leave the review! He truly is stunning.
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    Bad news... One of the little Exchequers is having leg issues today. There's a little bump, which could be a break and the joint is flat which may be a slipped tendon. I tried getting the tendon back in place. Didn't seem to help. I've splinted the leg and hobbled it. It's in a rubbermaid...
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    Impacted crop or sour crop?

    I'm glad she's doing better. I can't imagine how attached you must be to one another. I hope just one of mine lives to be 11. I think the antibiotics were a ruse. I walked into the office knowing she was impacted and needed surgery. I'd been dealing with it for a week already. The vet...
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    Impacted crop or sour crop?

    Could she have eaten anything strange? My Speckled Sussex, Betty, once took to eating sand from her dust bath. I didn't know that at the time. All I knew was that she had a hugely impacted crop. Took her to the vet who put her on antibiotics (?) and I tried every remedy I could find, but I...
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    Urgent! How do I keep my 4 chooks in suburbia safe from a nearby snake?

    Absolutely. Snakes are great climbers. They'll go right over the top of your fencing. I found the one below under a riser outside of coop a few weeks ago. Banded water snake. Non-venomous, but I don't want them around. They can kill chicks and will obviously steal eggs. We relocated it...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    She's gorgeous!!! Thank you so much! I hope mine are half as pretty. You have no idea how tempted I was to get a little roo with the pullets. I kept trying to sell my husband on the idea... No deal, but if one of the 5 turns out to be a roo, I won't be upset. Lovely! If I could have a...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    I suppose, although I would have thought they'd be banded after being sexed but before going into their little bins, you know? Then they'd just get pulled from the bins - banded - to fill the assortment orders after the specific orders had been fulfilled. I have no idea. I'm very confused...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    I know. I read that when I ordered, however I contacted Meyer yesterday to ask if the normally banded birds would be banded in the rare breed assortment and was told - direct quote "They can be banded, but they aren't always banded with assortments" So, I could have anything. ETA: I only...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    Gorgeous!!!!! Oh boy. Was she beautiful, though? Gosh, I can't imagine. I have an EE named Sarah that honks incessantly and both of my roosters (Black Copper and Blue Cuckoo) crow 24/7, but I can't imagine a screamer. My Blue Copper hen is very sweet and quiet. Thinking about it, I've never...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    Yes! I just stand over the brooder watching them... They're little nuggets. What's really nice is that with my last two batches from the re-seller I was getting them on the Sunday following their Monday hatch, so they were almost a week old and really didn't like being handled. I got these...
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    Was a nail biter, but my order from Meyer arrived this afternoon

    I'm so sorry about your Brahma. I had actually wanted to buy a Buff Brahma from Meyer, but they were sold out. They're so beautiful. We have a weather gauge in our backyard. Last week, it went up to 100, but the humidity is so high here (it was around 70%), that our "feels like" was 127...
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