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    Need to disburse flock in East TN... unexpected job change.

    I currently have two "flocks" of chickens that I need to rehome. All individuals have been obtained from NPIP hatcheries as either 1-day olds or hatching eggs, with the exception of one"home-grown" backyard mix. I have a mix of breeds, but all are something with the exception of the one...
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    Metzer Farms - Rave

    Hoping to be a happy Metzer farms customer soon! Back in March I had placed an order for a Sebastopol pair, for the May 31 hatch (wanted to get one of the last dates because had a lot going on with sick family members). Got a call that they didn't have the numbers laying that they expected, so...
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    Neighbor's Dogs attack - your opinion??

    ...but my goodness is he a lovebug. An indoor, dumb and happy lovebug. (I tried to ignore him, but he spent two nights on the back deck crying. **sigh**) There is also a feral part-Maine coon that roams the neighborhood (rural/agricultural), and spends a lot of time on my property it...
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    Unorthodox (and slow) egg-eating cure

    Quote: Love it!
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    24HR Sale LF Lavender Ameraucana Eggs PURE!!

    You have absolutely beautiful birds, and if I didn't already have eggies in the incubator, I would be sorely sorely tempted. I did have one question since you are answering questions for newbies... what is the typical age that one culls birds when breeding for quality? (i.e., in terms of...
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    I Need Shrinkwrap/Detached Aircell help...

    Hope you get a response.... I am interested as well. I feel that I lost most of my first hatch to issues related to this on shipped eggs... they made it all to lockdown. Then, not so much... plus one genuinely shrinkwrapped chick. Just put my second batch of shipped eggs in the incubator...
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    Anyone up to set their eggs on Valentine's day with me?

    Set the two that were the last eggs laid by my buff orp hens that were killed by the raccoon... one has popped his way out already, kicking and cheeping (totally like his dad... my alpha roo). The other, nothing. I candled before lockdown, and both were active and good. So I may be raising a...
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    Starting about 18 BCM eggs tonight. March 24th /25th hatch

    My Pumpkin Hulsey baby was a roo... he was killed by a raccoon while still young (it jumped 8 feet out of a tree onto the top of the coop, and squeezed through a tiny inch vent hole). Because of him, I totally fell in love with the breed. I was keeping him in a flock with some older birds once...
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    Starting about 18 BCM eggs tonight. March 24th /25th hatch

    Got mine in the mail today... will let them sit overnight to settle and pop them in tomorrow for a March 25 hopeful hatch. I didn't have a successful hatch last time with shipped eggs, so I'm hoping this will be better (in reality, it was my first incubation EVER, so the problem was likely not...
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    Culling, what do you do?

    Long-stewing chicken and wild rice soup? Okay, somewhat joking, but somewhat serious. I generally keep dual purpose breeds, and do have plans to raise meat birds too. But I recently had to cull an extra (mis-sexed) aggressive rooster of a small breed not normally considered as a meat breed...
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    Anyone up to set their eggs on Valentine's day with me?

    Still have two of two... candled today briefly and they are going strong. Can't wait!!!
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    I HATE pullet eggs!!

    Pickled eggs... I know they exist, but I have never tried them (either making or eating). I'm willing to try anything once. Anyone have a good recipe they'd be willing to share?
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    I HATE pullet eggs!!

    I have a small contingent of "customers" (I'm backyard scale). I have actually had a few people get really excited about pullet eggs. Mostly people who had relatives with farms growing up and fondly recall that their mothers/grandmothers loved baking with them when they could get their hands...
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    After 0 % hatch rate-- Trying again

    Best of luck to you... my first hatch was not so great too. I set 17... I got 4 hatches,plus one I helped because I was just so desperate at that point I figured why not (would die without help, might still die with help and did, but I tried). All of my losses were late incubation ones... it...
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    Chickens feeding other chickens?

    It was incredibly sweet! It resulted in a lot of weird responses though when I excitedly called some of my friends to tell them the story. "I just watched Lady Gaga feed a hen egg salad!" "You... what?"
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    Chickens feeding other chickens?

    Saw the funnest behaviour today, not sure if this is typical? I brought out some egg salad kitchen scraps for my birds, but didn't have enough to divide it into two bowls for the two sides of my coop (it has a chicken wire divider down the center so I can keep two groups separate). So I had to...
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    Anyone up to set their eggs on Valentine's day with me?

    I'm dropping in late to the party. I set two eggs on February 14th. I had a raccoon climb the elm tree above my coop, drop 8 feet onto the top, squeeze through a tiny vent hole along the rafters under the tin roof (literally just a couple inches, and far under the overhang... he shredded...
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    "Chicken Retirement Home"

    Quote: Hey now... not true. This woman names her notable chickens (the ones that aren't named "EPU #1, 2, etc"... Egg Producing Unit)... but Baron the rooster may be going to freezer camp sooner rather than later (he even attacks the 80 lb weimaraner). And while I really am fond of my hens...
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    When did you get your first eggs

    In my older of my two age cohort "flocks," I had a Dominique pullet who ironically was the runt of the "litter" start laying on the cusp of 16/17 weeks (she's noticeably smaller than the others, but not overly so). She has been laying almost every day since. The other Dominiques and Orpingtons...
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    Mixing breeds in the coop..

    ...me around burbling to me. Even when I put them up for the night, sometimes she'll stand by me next to the coop door like, "Yeah, you round those chickens up for the night!" "Um, sweetie, you're a chicken too and need to go in for the night too *picks up chicken and places in coop with rest*".
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