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  1. veganloraine

    Sexing 7 week old Cornish crosses. Please help!

    I didn't hatch them, a kindergarten class did. As a vegan, which my username should have given indication to, I will treat them as more than just a product and find good forever homes for them. It's not their fault their bodies have been so grossly manipulated. I have an adult hen of the same...
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    Sexing 7 week old Cornish crosses. Please help!

    This is a picture of three of the seven taken last week. You can see that they are at different stages of development, even though they hatched at the same time. The one on the left is clearly a rooster as he's already starting fights. Oh boy. The one on the left is clearly a hen. The one is the...
  3. veganloraine

    Sexing 7 week old Cornish crosses. Please help!

    I took in 7 Cornish crosses who were the unwilling participants in a kindergarten hatching project. I have forever homes lined up for them, but only if they are hens, not roosters. At 7 weeks old they have all their feathers and are the size of my Longhorn cross. Two of the pullets have tiny...
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    Exactly how noisy is a rooster?

    That was great advice! Thank you.
  5. veganloraine

    Exactly how noisy is a rooster?

    In June I took in 7 "broiler" chicks that were the unwilling participants in a kindergarten hatching project. I had a forever home lined up willing to take all seven, but it fell through. The poults are now 9 weeks old and I'm pretty sure that at least one is male, with three other possible...
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    Egg bound hen mystery

    Thank you so much for the info! She definitely doesn't have any of the clinical signs of being egg bound, other than the droopy bottom and messy stools. It's the beginning of her fourth day of no egg. I don't believe she has egg yolk peritonitis only because my other hen who was also at the vet...
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    Egg bound hen mystery

    On Monday I noticed that my 3 year old Leghorn mix(?), ex-battery hen's back end was down - not penguin posed, but holding lower than her back. Feeling around her bottom I could feel an egg near her vent. I feared she may be egg bound, so I brought her inside and gave her a warm bath and gently...
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    2 Little Chicks in Southern Ontario

    Advice, please. A neighbour girl bought two chicks at last Sunday's Fall Fair. She was keeping them in a taco box in her bedroom until she realized yesterday that they might need more. So, I have 2 one week old chicks in a dog crate under a heat lamp in my hallway. I also have 4 three year old...
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    Hen with possible (??) egg laying problem. Help!

    I just went out and she's laid a proper egg!! She's up and eating too! So happy!!!!! That was really scary.
  10. veganloraine

    Hen with possible (??) egg laying problem. Help!

    Their lives are pretty stress-free in that they can run around wherever the like with access to cool, muddy shade or sunny grass, as well as good soil to dust in. They eat what they like and no changes have been made to their routines or living conditions. However, it went from being really cold...
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    Hen with possible (??) egg laying problem. Help!

    I have a 2 year old ex-battery hen. She is, I believe, a White Leghorn. We've had her for a year. She is a free running hen and is fed a high quality feed, food scraps, and whatever bugs and plants she enjoys from the gardens. For the last month her eggs have had thinner and thinner shells...
  12. veganloraine

    Vegetarians ( and Vegans ) Thread!!!

    Bends to agendas and monetary forces? Would that be the agendas of produce growers because I know if I see one more "Broccoli: It's What's for Dinner" ad or hear one more "Got Asparagus" commercial I know I'm going to scream. Sheesh. Seriously, can you name one health care organization that...
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    Vegetarians ( and Vegans ) Thread!!!

    Very true!
  14. veganloraine

    Battery Hen Thread!

    So happy I found this thread!! Friends and I rescued 130 battery hens in May. We kept 6 and delivered the rest to sanctuaries around Ontario. There's a photo of four of them the day they were rescued and a picture of them in the factory. They were "spent" hens at only 12 months of age and were...
  15. veganloraine

    Vegetarians ( and Vegans ) Thread!!!

    The China Study is the biggest, most comprehensive nutritional study ever conducted. The study spans over twenty years and compare the standard American diet, or SAD (do you know how much I love that, haha) with the diets of those living in 65 counties in China (where they consume very little...
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    Vegetarians ( and Vegans ) Thread!!!

    There are a billion reasons to go vegan. It's infinately better for the environemnt (less use of land, water, energy and fewer CO2 emissisions). It's better for our health (fewer incidences of heart disease, diabetes, cancer - especially breast, ovarian, prostate and colon cancers) and for our...
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    Vegetarians ( and Vegans ) Thread!!!

    Hi Silkiemomma9! We're vegans with chickens too. "So, you don't eat meat, fish, eggs, milk...Wait don't you have chickens"? Too funny. I have vegan children, but only two of them. They're amazing kids. Very healthy, but so kind as well. Thanks for the website. I'm always looking online for new...
  18. veganloraine

    Ventilation vs Drafts

    Thank you. I know the coop needs ventilation, but wasn't sure how to go about it. My husband seems really opposed to adding any ventilation at all and I needed some proof to show him. Although, the best/worst proof now seems to be the frostbite on the combs. I think he's conflicted with no to...
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    Ventilation vs Drafts

    The coop is not dark nor smelly. It has two large windows and we change the straw and shavings daily. It's lovely and a billion times better than the tiny cage they shared in a windowless barn with 50,000 other chickens. They're just claustrophobic from intensive confinement. The water freezes...
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    Ventilation vs Drafts

    In May I rescued 6 ex-battery hens (one since passed away). My dh built them a really nice coop (approx 5wx8lx4h). It's an insulated, draft-free coop with glass pane windows, perches, three nesting boxes and some floor space covered in shavings to walk around on. It has no ventilation holes, but...
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