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    Deep Litter Method VS Poop boards OR in addition to?

    Just another take on this. I used to use shavings in the chicken house and remove all shavings and manure once a season but I found it got too dirty. I have now about 35 chickens, a goose, three ducks and 5 turkeys and find the manure load to be too much. When I installed the chicken house 15...
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    Substrate for run that houses ducks and chickens?

    I have had many birds all together, chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, in a 40x40 foot pen for almost 30 years. It was for many of those years a dirt pen but over time the manure was concentrating as I had no real way to remove it and every time it rained it became a murky swamp. I solved...
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    Beltsville Small White Turkey

    I live near West Chester, PA and also am looking for Beltsville white. I, too, don't need 15 (current minimum) turkeys from McMurray but maybe we can split an order later this spring? I just lost my fabulous, eleven year old, blind (cataracts) Tom who was a white mini. One of the best pets ever.
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    day-old chick with "curled feet" (last attempt before culling... )

    I hatched 17 mixed breed chicks over a course of five days in the incubator. The very last needed help out of the egg as the membrane was tough - evidently too little humidity. The chick had a curled foot. At about a week of age, I pulled it out of the others into isolation and set its foot...
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    New Member in Chester County, PA

    Thank you
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    New Member in Chester County, PA

    I am a new member in Unionville, Pennsylvania. I've had backyard chickens strictly as pets for 20+ years. On a small parcel of land, I have four horses, vast numbers of chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys (used to do fancy pigeons until visitation by the Red-Tails), three dogs, one cat...
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