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    curled toes

    I have a couple hens that have toes bent completely in half on the side of their feet. What may have caused this? I don't recall them having this issue when they were chicks so is this some sort of deficiency or did they get broken and never healed?
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    Stopped Laying

    I have a small flock of Welsummer. They had been laying roughly an egg a day per each bird but now they have stopped and it's been around 2 months or so. I thought they were molting at first since we had been finding feathers everywhere, but they had never really looked bald or anything. I...
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    What Sex are my Birchen Marans and Barnevelders?

    one of my marans seems to be a bit runty and has been getting picked on and feathers pulled out by the others, had it separated for a few days until I moved them all into my other coop so they'd have more room, but it still seems to get picked on and tries to hang out in places the others can't...
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    Finally!

    After 3 possums, 3 cats (same one twice), a couple of failed attempts, buying a bigger trap, then another failed attempt to craftiness. I decided I was just going to have to do it the old fashion way and sit in wait with a shotgun. As I was walking out the door to stake my spot I finally came...
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    Please don't say "Rooster"

    Hen, no rooster feathering.
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    Help! I am freaking out!

    sadly I only wished they would spray my neighborhood, but I'm outside of city limits. everytime I go outside I get at least 20 bites in 5 mins, they're REALLY bad this year even with all the drought.
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    How to humanly euthanize baby chicks (Almost one month).

    get someone else to do it? my friend who also has chickens, had one that went lame and had some issues, he couldn't do it either so asked me to, but I never did it since they kept saying "maybe it will be ok" it eventually died a couple weeks later anyways =( I was just going to shoot it since...
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    What Sex are my Birchen Marans and Barnevelders?

    Yup I'm slowly making my way through the Barnie thread....250 pages is alot of work to catch up on lol....better than the marans page, think that is like 2500 pages!
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    What Sex are my Birchen Marans and Barnevelders?

    A guy named Doug on the outskirts of the Nashville area raises Marans and Barnevelders and a few other breeds, I know he was working on and hoping to offer Jubilee Orpingtons by next year. I'm not sure if he's on this site or not, he claims to be one of the few breeders of Blue Laced Barnies...
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    What Sex are my Birchen Marans and Barnevelders?

    Well going to update the pics of my Barnevelders, at this point I'm guessing 1 cockerel and 2 pullets, and I believe one of my pullets may turn out to be a double laced blue. Cockerel Pullet? Blue Laced? And Pullet? Turning into a fun learning experience since I've never gotten my...
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    How much do you sell a dozen eggs for and how much for a two year old hen?

    Wow, yet another cost factor for not living in Cali lol.
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    How much do you sell a dozen eggs for and how much for a two year old hen?

    I've always sold my eggs for $3/doz as well just due to it being an even number, but it's pretty much about standard price around here if not about $2.50/doz. Plus I don't really have a huge surplus of eggs yet anyways, more than I eat sure, but not really enough to make any sort of money off...
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    What Sex are my Birchen Marans and Barnevelders?

    yes I'm having a bit of a predator crisis myself these past couple of months. I originally started my flock with 2 buff orpingtons, 2 golden-laced wyandottes, and a black cochin roo (and several guineas but they ran away like the 2nd day I let them range and I can't say I'm really all that sad...
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    What Sex are my Birchen Marans and Barnevelders?

    well sadly looking at them today I'm fairly certain 2 of the barnies are roo's, they are getting bigger combs and are pink, and also their legs are noticeably thicker, verdict is still out on the 3rd one, so looks like I have at least 5 roo's out of 7 chicks
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    What Sex are my Birchen Marans and Barnevelders?

    your post that isn't showing up anymore was what I was talking about, hen = yellow, pink = roo etc
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