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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest 9/9/2013 - Picture by LittleMissPurdy

    Congrats! I really liked yours and it was fitting. :D
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest 9/9/2013 - Picture by LittleMissPurdy

    "I didn't know we're having chicken nuggets for dinner?!"
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    Which is the best bedding to use for my baby chicks??

    I like to use aspen shavings. It doesn't have the chemicals that are released from getting wet, like the others do. It's also low dust and low smell (I raise reptiles too and this is what many snake breeders use for bedding). The sand idea sounds like a good deal too.
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    OLD BREEDS AZERBAIJAN MARANDI (GARA MARAND)

    Very cool looking breed! Wish we could get them here in the US. They look similar to the Breda.
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    Did my chickens kill each other?

    I would agree that it was a predator. I know that when a raccoon was trying to reach through the chain link in one of my chicken pens, it scared them enough for them to actually leave their roosts in the middle of the night and run around (which is what the raccoon wanted); then the raccoon was...
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    Sex- linked Information

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    Chicken moral question

    I have no idea where my previous post went, is this a forum that deletes stuff if they don't like it? If it breaks the rules, yes. Posts can be deleted and warnings or violation notices are sent out. Post that quote a deleted post are also deleted. Review the BYC Terms of Service here...
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    Sex- linked Information

    Jmac, it looks like that would work. If I understand it correctly, any males with double gold genes and a female with a dominant Silver gene would work; I think. I never really paid attention to sex-linking until I have been making a point to study this myself recently, but my dark cornish male...
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    Chicken moral question

    Quote: I'd never even think about shooting a neighbor's dog where I live. We all get along but then again, I'd bring it back to that person's place and talk to them about it and they'd just try harder to contain their dog. I would try any measures necessary to take care of my own chickens, in...
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    Chicken moral question

    Yinepu, that is why I stated "laws differ upon where you are located". Also, like I said, it would be unheard of, where I live. In my area pets get out all of the time. ALL (literally) of the neighbors are friendly and work together. Once, my dog broke off of his zip line on the 4th of July due...
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    November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

    I'm with you on the early October hatch date. I have a group of hatching eggs that I bought after searching the hatching eggs for sale thread for a while, before deciding what we wanted to try for. Most of them will be a surprise for my 11 year old son on his birthday in October. He's in 4H and...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    If it helps, for the longest time I thought my hens weren't laying and it ended up being a rat that would go into the pen and steal the eggs. We caught it in the act one afternoon and had to leave traps (it actually ended up being 3 rats).
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest 9/9/2013 - Picture by LittleMissPurdy

    "Poor Norman pood his feathers, as he was chosen by the chick council to be pushed out of the coop and sacrificed to the large fuzz God."
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    Chicken tractor Wire floor?

    For my chicken tractors, I made them 8' x 4' and used a heavy duty staple gun to staple metal chicken wire around the sides and top of the coop and left the bottom of the coop open completely for full access to the grass. I move them daily so they have fresh grass, bugs and weeds every day.
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    What breed do you have that is your best free ranger?

    Quote: From my experience, my fayoumis DO go over to the neighbor's yards and roam quite a ways away; but on the other hand they are so quick and observant that they never get caught by predators (or, at least mine do not). If something spooks them, they come back home in a flash (and they...
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