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  1. beausonge

    Broody Hen Thread!

    I need an opinion. My chicken broodies are starting to come into their setting season. I have 3 that have already hatched 17 chicks and I have 2 more that are setting. I have at least 3 more due soon. Some friends have asked if I will let 2 of those set TURKEYS. At first I said yes but now I am...
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    Orust, Lavender Orpington, Shamo, Malay, Ayam Cemani, Barnyard Mix

    Will you be offering these throughout the spring? I need to wait on my Silkies to brood. Also I have not been on here in a while. Is there a way to save this post OR could you PM me so I can check back when my girls are ready? Thanks so much!
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I never get tired of pullet eggs!
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Awwwww.... I LOVE my Silkie broodies so much! Right now my two Silkies and an Araucana are raising six chicks between all of them. They get along with everybody and are such good Mommies! Your girls are really beautiful!
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    January 2016 Hatch-Come Join Me

    I don't candle until the 7th but am expecting low fertility due to the cold weather. I did check an egg by cracking prior to attempting this but...
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    January 2016 Hatch-Come Join Me

    I'm a little late posting. I started 11 black bantam Araucana eggs on Jan. 1st. I got a new incubator for Christmas but the temperature wouldn't stabilize. I have a Janoel8-48 that I thought was broken after I lent it to someone else. They were upset when I asked for it back and it wouldn't...
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    Comment by 'beausonge' in article 'Chicken little, the bravest little chicken alive!'

    Your daughter is AWESOME!
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    Sick? Lethargic chick, should I separate her?

    The Save-A-Chick is great but you are going to have to hold her and give it to her with an eyedropper. Poly-Vi-Sol WITHOUT iron (iron is poisonous to chickens) - give a drop or two every four hours can also help. Isolate her in a crate and if possible bring her in the house where it is warm and...
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    Bloody Piles. Stress or something else?

    That is a feed for starting baby chicks. It is perfectly fine to feed to adults. It has 18% protein instead of 16% protein like the layer feed. You will also have to give free fed calcium if they are laying aggs. The extra protein is good for them this time of year - what with molting and...
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    Bloody Piles. Stress or something else?

    Go to the feed store and get MEDICATED chick starter. It has amprolium in and you know they will ALL be getting it.
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    Wow .. this egg is tiny!

    Usually they don't have a yolk. My chickens on occasion lay "fart" eggs. They are tiny and have no yolks. I save them for a friend of mine. She lets them dry out in the frig and then uses them for decorations in her crafts. The blue/green egg layers are especially pretty because when they...
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    Pullet #1 actually has a very flat back. She is just missing pretty much all of her tail. This causes her back feathers to "fluff" up. I have been reading on this thread how hard it is to get rid of cushions. I was very happy when only one pullet had the beginnings of a cushion - she was...
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    Poor K #1 was our first victim. None of these have been handled before and we are used to handling 4 legged critters. He kept sinking so she kind of propped him up by the butt. When you put all of these on the ground their legs are properly placed according to the SOP illustration. Good...
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    We only had five pullets. They were all very, very nice. There was only one out of the five we put in the layer flock as she had the beginnings of a cushion; her frame narrowed towards her tail; and she had a poor disposition. The other four ALL had flat backs and a solid back frame all the...
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    Hi All, It has been a long time since I posted on here though I have been reading the posts regularly. I got some Partridge Plymouth Rock chicks from Dick Horstman for my friend's daughter. This last weekend they were 11 weeks old so we did our first "evaluation". We had no one to help us...
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    Colloncas, Huastecs, & Quechuas

    I have a pair of SPQs. Here are some pictures of them: IF you are interested in eggs from them, I can separate them out for you. Not sure which egg is hers - I suspect a tea colored egg but just don't know. All the rest in the pen are Araucanas and a couple of EEs and they lay blue or...
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    Quechua Thread

    I have a pair of Sweet Potato Quechua and the cockerel almost went to the stew pot. He is fine with people and he does not fight with the other cockerels and roosters. However, he injured two pullets yanking them by the tops of the heads and pulling them out from under the other cockerel. I...
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    Colloncas, Huastecs, & Quechuas

    An interesting article about fibromelanosis in chickens. http://tru.uni-sz.bg/ascitech/3_2013/001-Fibromelanosis%20in%20domestic%20chickens.pdf
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    Araucana thread anyone?

    See reply above...
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    Araucana thread anyone?

    I have two Broodie's setting on black and blue bantam to LF Araucanas eggs right now. The sire is CF oversized black bantam. My bluest egg layer is one of the broodies so I don't have any of hers. I might have something available when these hatch and mature. I am also selling my Colloncas to...
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