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  1. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: I feed very little scratch since I knew corn was heating. It also makes the yolks a pretty dark color. Oats are great but will make very pale yolks. Some egg buyers want the dark yolks. I just want cool birds right now. They are eating half as much of their layer pellets since...
  2. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: Thank you that was awesome! I do wet inside if it's dry air but on really humid days I wet outside and only a tiny bit inside the coop. I too have a couple of burlap feed bags that I sprinkle down but they don't stay wet long. They sure do cool the air though, gotta figure out a way...
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    old*cowboy : Just got in from Blanchard. Had a good time and picked up some nice Bantam leghorns in white. And a dozen NN chicks. I bought one of those cages Michael spoke of and like he said, they went high. BUT it was still cheaper than I could make a 6 compartment cage built that nice. It...
  4. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: Starting eggs under a broody hen with all the heat will probably not be a pleasant experience. When air temps are over 105, the eggs just cook. Exploding eggs make for a smelly mess. Hens in a nest box can get too hot also. I agree. Being a novice I let my Cochin, Henny Penny, sit...
  5. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: My babies stand in the cool spray but the adults don't. They come to stand in the water puddles in the shaded mud though. I don't have ANY trees near the coop but tiny ones that don't shade yet. Have 2 Maples tho and they'll grow pretty fast hopefully, but not enough for this year...
  6. vegetarianchick

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    ...busy cooling the coop all week and now record heat today. I hung a digital external thermometer knee high off the ground in the coop and it's 105* in there right now even with the box fan running on high. The chickens are out back in the covered shaded pen that I keep wet every hour. I...
  7. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: A huge trend in Hair stlyes now is to put long saddle or hackle feathers in your hair. - not alot, (I just got a visual of a woman looking something like a polish!) just one or two. I have seen both Barred Rock and Creel in women's hair. Stylists put them in like hair extensions...
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    Quote: --I can relate to that --I'm on a fixed income got to have my cool air on the days we've been having lately hope we get a break soon. I bought Energy Star window air conditioners and they REALLY save on the bill if you run them on the economy feature, which just means that when the...
  9. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: LOL. We thought 4 would be a good number to start with. Just enough eggs for our family and not overwhelming. Plus, the coop we are working on (all materials we already have) will fit 4. Just trying to decide on the breeds, I am thinking 4 is not enough, but we will continue to...
  10. vegetarianchick

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    Kassaundra I love your easter egger pics. I have some babies that are colored like yours and a snow white one named Snowy Cheeks. I've got 4 adults and the 3 babies. They are so awesome!
  11. vegetarianchick

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    ...and twice a day I spray the entire outside metal/wood coop with a shower of cool water and a little inside. Cools things down a bit. We've had 106* heat indexes and 100 real temps. I even take handfuls of cool water and wash the older girls faces and combs with cool water while they are on...
  12. vegetarianchick

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    Hi all, nice grad/prom photos...noticed the shoes on the girl. LOL I lost one of my young ameracauna babies today. I think it's the bad feed i got last time and refunded it but the babies got the squirties, or 1 or 2 did. I got a new feed but they've been slow to eat it maybe from all the...
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    Very violent day in Tulsa today, carjackings, shootings everywhere and some dead. So bad they broke in on the shows to tell about it. My dad and I go there less and less. I think I'm gonna quit going there at all. My mom lives there but I may have to give up going there since it's got so bad.
  14. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: Halito! Chimi-Changa Hey! that's sounds like a mexican food!
  15. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: You don't have any black rat snakes sneaking eggs do you? Soon as I noticed the numbers decreased I found a snake in the coop and you could tell where it had eaten an egg....... Now I keep a BIG shovel in there for snake attacks...on the snakes!
  16. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: I know what you mean. When you get like that you need to have a special drawer in the refrig. filled with all kinds of chocolate! Open the fridge, stand in cool air and pick out your choc. treats, close door and enjoy. It doesn't get the house and yard chores done but it'll sure...
  17. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: My ex BF installed assorted sizes of cedar tree limbs in my coop when he built it. My birds roost on those, but the new 1 yr. old layers I got from Pepper won't share the roosts yet so they sleep up on top of the nest boxes where it's flat and wide.
  18. vegetarianchick

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    old*cowboy : I am so tired of this wind. I looked outside at my chicken pens and my water bowls had white caps on them, now thats windy. Ha ha ha ha It's been so windy here that my chicken water troughs had waves so big they tipped over the troughs.
  19. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: Praying the little guy will be ok.
  20. vegetarianchick

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    Quote: Awwwww I love them. You can use any broken terra cotta pots as toad houses so they have a place to sleep and stay cool. Just put the pot in the garden under some plants to provide shade, with the broken part as the doorway. I find them under stuff and buried in the ground before...
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