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    RIR roo with white shanks!?!

    They are just a bit lighter than the rir with the yellow shanks. If they are the production reds, I would get better results with the yellow shanks, right? Or more consistent results...
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    RIR roo with white shanks!?!

    I picked up some RIR roos with the idea of using a couple of them for this years breeding. Two have yellow shanks and two have shite shanks, are the white shanked roos production reds, or would anyone have some ideas? I am weeding out any with crooked toes or any other physical abnormality...
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    great laying gold stars and now, no shells or soft ones

    They do get calcium free choice, I do feed screenings from the grain elevator. Maybe I should put some of the calcium in their feed on a daily basis! We let them out to free range every morning, they may not be/well evidence points to the fact they aren't getting enuf calcium! Hmmm, I'll be...
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    Montana

    Just browsing around and thought I would see if anyone from Mt. I'm in Wibaux, almost into ND
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    great laying gold stars and now, no shells or soft ones

    Last year we got some 'gold stars' for their eggs, they were fantastic last fall. Lots of dbl yolk eggs! I was quite impressed. But I got to thinking, with them laying so many eggs, will their calcium levels get depleted at an earlier age? I had two eggs from them this morning, one had no...
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    Buff orp w/ yellow shanks

    Hey, Question for ya... I brought home a new rooster yesterday, a buff orp , looking at him this morniong, I realized he may not be an orp, he has yellow shanks....then again, maybe I am wrong, I thought they all had white shanks?!?!? Any enlightenment would be apppreciated!
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    bug spurs

    Thanks, good pics. I saw another thread where they pop them off, not as topugha job as I thought it might be!! Thanks again...
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    bug spurs

    we have a RI rooster with spurs almost an inch and a quarter long, can they be trimmed and how short? Some of the hens seem to be really roughed up, bare skinned on their backs.......... thanks
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    better layers??

    Thanks for the info. According to the 'pet' place, the reds give approx. 5/week and the buffs 3/week! Our bufs were giving us more than just 3/week, they were doing good and giving 5-7 eggs a week, we've been really tickled with them. Some people South of town are goiing on an extended...
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    better layers??

    We have some buff orps right now,we are abut to get some RI reds, ...does anyone know which would come out on top as the better layers? or where I might find the info on this?
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    DE and clay

    We have some clay soil in our area, is there any difference between that and store bought DE?
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    We have a cover model!!

    neat to read this, I got my copy in the mail and I was awestruck!! Showed my wife, a beautiful bird! I have the buffs, would sure be neat to have some blues, if they would breed true for the color.... good job!
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    broody - again?

    Hey, we have some buff orp hens, one of them went broody before we got a rooster. Will she go broody again, if so, how often will, or can they go broody?
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    temp. and correlation of pullets to cockerals

    Hi, does anyone know or has anyone tested to see if there is any correlation between a specific temp and the % of pullets to cockerals? I saw a story on the discovery channel about how alligators or crocs, when tending their nests, if allowing the temps to get too hot, the babies will be a...
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