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  1. Altairsky

    Hens attacking while rooster mates

    Wow... My flock must be made of saints. The other night I was baffled to see that my bachelor flock and my main flock merged and they were all roosting together. They're so peaceful I don't have the urge to cull the extra males anymore.
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    Chinese Skullcap root extract for Marek's

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/viable-treatment-for-mareks-disease.1583131/ This is the most information there is on this forum. As for science, I used to believe in official science. After 2020 I learned the hard way that official science is corrupted and full of ****. Not my...
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    Chinese Skullcap root extract for Marek's

    No idea about the powder, I'd use pills, they're easier to dose and administer to an animal.
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    Tree/Shrub for chickens in yard

    Yes, edible for humans or edible for birds, or edible for whatever creature is edible for chickens. It's all good.
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    Tree/Shrub for chickens in yard

    Just make an orchard. Chickens love all type of fruits! Planting non edible trees is a waste of space IMHO.
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    it's both a blessing and a curse, because I have a prefab coop that should fit 9 chickens, this means it can fit 4, and currently I have 20 chickens XD none of which is laying eggs right now 🤣
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    This is her today. Kiwi, the angry pancake
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    I've learned, in years of research, that literally everything is carcinogenic. If something isn't carcinogenic, it's just because it wasn't researched enough!
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Kiwi egg #5 is at 99% a quitter - probably quit on day 13-14! I assigned @BoundlessLove egg #4 which looks really good at candling! No idea about the marans eggs, I didn't even try those ones, but in the worst case scenario Kiwi will have one baby. What matters is that she didn't sit for...
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    Supplementing with wheat germ oil?

    It makes no sense to me to feed wheat germ oil to chickens. These oils are sold already rancid if not refrigerated. Feed them whole oily seeds instead like hemp or Flax.
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    #1 - olive egger @jxp Diddums #2 - olive egger @Ikslo Banana #3 - olive egger @thecatumbrella Fig #4 - araucana #5 - araucana @BoundlessLove Olive Yew She hatched from Peach eggs, every chick from Peach is always bantam. Update on Peach batch! 4 days ago I found a bloody poop probably from one...
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    Does anyone use soy/corn-free feed?

    For what I can remember from school, soy is the only legume that has protein the same quality of meat. I don't know if there are other rarer legumes that have the same profile, I'll look it up. But peas for example are missing some essential amino acids. However if you pair peas (or other...
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Feel free to chose a number! I'll keep everything in this same topic.
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    Does anyone use soy/corn-free feed?

    It's quite easy to avoid eating soy directly if you avoid all ultra processed food... However it's impossible to avoid indirect soy because that's what most meat animals eat. If you go vegan though, avoiding indirect soy is feasible... But again, good luck getting a decent aminoacidic profile...
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    I need to take a picture when I take her out of the nest. She looks like a freaking rabid frittella
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    LOL no worries! There was one in a million chances 🤣 Should do some lottery I guess!
  17. Altairsky

    Show me your weirdest looking chicken mutt

    What a lovely Zebra finch! Yeah finches are definitely welcome in this thread too. I love them as much as I love chickens.
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    Show me your weirdest looking chicken mutt

    As title say, if you hatched some mixed breeds that look somehow weird or odd, or something that you don't see everywhere, post a picture here! Rules: - only birds with adult feathering - no pure breeds - has to be a bird - any bird - Here is my oddball Kiwi. Rumpless, with both beard and...
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Caprese and Ammos are both girls, this crossing can be feather sexed. For everyone else we need to wait a little more! Caruso better stay closer to her mother because she's so disobedient that if she doesn't win a darwin award really soon I'm gonna be surprised.
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Let's go with Olive Yew, because cinzia is the name of a woman my father had an affair with, lol. Now all women's names that ends in "...zia" give me the cringes 🤣
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