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    BLRW joke - now 11 weeks old, is it a boy??! (answer in post #82)

    Quote: Depends on the parentage.....but I'll call it "Hybrid Vigour" and stick with pullet. Maybe she's better fed, maybe she took hormones while ya weren't looking?
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    BLRW joke - now 11 weeks old, is it a boy??! (answer in post #82)

    Quote: I think the first egg should settle it......these people are literally giving their money away. Lol. So if it's a pullet you'll call it "O'Hara" for short? (Dry)
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    BLRW joke - now 11 weeks old, is it a boy??! (answer in post #82)

    Quote: I'll accept your $5 and put $20 on it as a pullet. (Grin) It will take another year to get it's best feathering colours, no sickle feathers. A Wyandotte cockerel would have them by now. If it's not a recognised colour there then previous comments apply re. crossing, wrong egg went...
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    I have a preadator

    Quote: Obviously, different predator behaviours over in the US. I used to wonder, as a kid, why I'd find a whole stack of chooks with their heads off, uneaten. Apparently, the female fox will drink the blood of younger poultry, to aid in raising her young. This whole discussion has been a...
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    I have a preadator

    Quote: What are Phoenixes? I saw the pick, the rooster looked really cool. You say u found them dead.....heads off, injuries, half eaten? I've had poultry die for reasons other than predators. Snake bite or poisoning because they ate the leaves of a bulb that was super toxic. I also noticed...
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    I have a preadator

    Quote: So you think it's oner them nasty human critters? Lol! Happens here occasionally, especially with people who win at Shows. The Club publishes the Winning Entries.......they disappear from the person's coops a while after that. I did very well with a hen at one Club Show (3 trophies...
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    BLRW joke - now 11 weeks old, is it a boy??! (answer in post #82)

    Quote: What's BLRW? W = Wyandotte, right? It has a small, pullet-like rosecomb (as we call it here, our pure bred Wyandottes have a different Standard for Show Quality birds).....I'd say pullet with some very interesting colouring. I agree about the throwback gene, maybe the breeder's stock is...
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    how to control flies in run

    Quote: That thing is brilliant! Might build one myself. Yes, husbands can be useful, eh? I'd put it well away from the coops so the flies are attracted to it, rather than near the coops (if possible). And there are a lot of flies in that thing. After I started doing this there was a...
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    I have a preadator

    Quote: Sorry to hear about that....took the hen and the eggs!!!!! We don't really have anything in Western Australia that could do that except a person. Can u narrow it down by posting a list of the predators in your area that could do this? Not a cougar, is it? If it is an animal taking them...
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    how to control flies in run

    Quote: Hi, just wondered what DE is. I use flypapers and a bottle trap: large plastic bottle with lid on, burn hole for flie to enter 2/3 way up, put in a coupla inches of water with something like cow or pig manure. Flies go in, eventually drown. Plus I use deep litter (mixed grain straw)...
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    Free Legal Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It

    Quote: LOL. We're generally as easy-going lot....if there is a way of resolving a dispute where neither party really gets burnt badly.......I mean, in the case below, that person could have been up for big bucks if his dog injured someone badly. The rangers did him a favour. Dogs can be quite...
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    AI ...so how much is enough?

    Quote: really funny story.. hahahahahaahah Traffa, it's not that they aren't into the hens... it's that there is too many feathers blocking their right of passion so, unless I wack off of the cush feathers, all their efforst are for nothing BB, I was doing this first thing in the...
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    Free Legal Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It

    Quote: Personally, I don't think registration is necessary. In Western Australia, especially in Perth (pop. ca 1mill), the various local councils/shires have rules about how much poultry you can keep. You know, this council says only 6 hens, another 12. The most popular animals people have to...
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    Free Legal Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It

    Quote: Looks like a major topic alright. Just a story from Oz. Emu breeding was all the rage 10-15 years ago. On a suburban street corner in Perth a Council Ranger spied half a dozen emus in someone's backyard. Knocks on the door...."Sir....you can't keep emus here." The bloke...
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    AI ...so how much is enough?

    Quote: Not sure but I used a quite different method that appears to help fertility. I remove the rooster each night from the breeding pens and put him in a catbox in a shed or even inside. The first thing on his mind each morning was to tread the hen.....80-90% fertility. Luck or the way ta...
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