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    Araucana thread anyone?

    I'm not on here very often anymore. Well, I came on this morning and noticed an araucana thread, so Hello. Well, I'm discouraged because my projects haven't done as well as I was hoping. I have 3 projects going.....golden duckwing, black-breasted red and blue. I have lost all hope of having...
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    Plucking?

    If its a broiler and I'm only doing one, I might not want to start heating up water and pulling out the plucker. My preferred method is dry plucking. I find its much cleaner and to tell the truth, I don't care for the smell of scalded chickens. Its the kind of thing that you just aren't...
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    Do I need to cull her?

    Cull. Prepare for the kitchen, if you can see fit. I can't see watching a bird that won't amount to its potential and will not give a good feed/meat ratio. There is probably something wrong. I helped a friend slaughter a rooster a week ago because of jaundice. Its never pleasant, but...
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    Well I'll Be!!!

    I pick up my eggs everyday. I had trouble last year with my broodies anyway. Everytimes the babies started hatching, the hens would start having custody battles over the babies and unhatched eggs and I'd end up with dead babies, so I gave up on doing it the natural way. I'd maybe try it, if I...
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    Its been a while...

    I haven't been on BYC in a long time and curiosity got the best of me tonight. Well, things certainly look different since my last visit. When I get a chance, I'll visit all the old places I normally frequented on the forum and maybe I'll see some of the oldies, as well as find a few new...
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    sick eyes on chicks

    We apparently have an epidemic in town, because a family came over a few days ago asking how to save their chicks.......some were bought from me, others elsewhere (right). Well the affected chick will stand still, with feathers puffed out while the healthy chicks runs all over the place, so...
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    Chicks dying... what can I do?

    I have some sick chicks, but in addition, the eyes get sick. I have been able to save them by keeping they eyes clean and using antibiotic ointment. As to the heat problem. If the temps the origional writter posted are too hot, I wouldn't ever be able to keep chickens, because the only way to...
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    Who is having trouble hatching goose eggs this year?

    I hatched out only 4 last year and 1 this year. That is with about 50 eggs total, so I gave up 2 days ago on putting new eggs to incubate and I put my latest 8 eggs under a broody RIR. I have about 10 goose eggs to finish off in the incubator and then I'm just going to use it for guinea and...
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    why didnt they hatch

    I have done really well with my chicks hatching and I hope I'll do well with keets (due on the 17th), but I've only hatched out a handful of goslings, although I get an egg every other day from my pair and should have a decent flock by now. Well yesterday I decided to give the job to a broody...
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    how long should cornish X eat chick starter

    Not sure about how long should, but I just do it until they can eat other things. I have gone 2 weeks with cornish Xs and then introduced smaller grains, like wheat, rice and cracked corn and introduced greens at about that time also. The sooner I can get them on whole grains and grass, the...
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    pullet is plucking feathers off of others

    I can try the protein, but they just got put in the stall from the brooder and has about 7 times more room than they had just 3 days ago. Also, they hatched out on March 28th and I live in the very deep south, so if I give them heat, I think they will run away from it, but I can see that it...
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    pullet is plucking feathers off of others

    I have 4 breeds of chickens brooding together. Cockoo Marans, BR, White Rocks and Light Bramahas. One of the White Rocks are wandering about stall, plucking feathers off of the other chickens. I keep waiting for one of them to peck back. Several times I have taken her away. What to do? I...
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    Guinea Tractor?

    Our guineas started flying around in the tractor and I think, banged themselves all up, causing deaths. When I was down to 6 guineas, we caught them and put them in the coop with the chickens. They are about to get their own quarters (almost finished addition) and then the plan is for us to...
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    Sex link why does it matter which breed is the roo?

    I wish I could explain, but I can't. Long ago my mother and mother-in-law just temporarily swapped roos to collect the eggs and hatch sex-links. I can't remember half of the chicks not being true to the sex-link rules. All I remember is a bunch of little black and rust pullets and lots of...
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    how do you store your eggs

    I had an egg eating problem a while back. I used some suggestions I probably inherited from BYC. I blew out 2 eggs and sealed them with candle wax, then filled with dishwashing liquid and sealed the other hole. Then I put them in the nest with a few wooden eggs........they can't eat those for...
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    breeding for sex-linking

    I am attempting to produce future sex-links, so I can know what is my meat and what I can sell as pullets from the start. I've done it before, but only with the RIR/BR mix. After reading a chapter in 'Sexing of all Fowl', I decided to try a few other crosses to get possibly larger birds...
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    Siminar proposed to address caponization and other chicken care issues

    Well I haven't gone on a vacation in years, so I am past due to get outta here. My contact feels that if enough people are interested the vet would consent to a travel.......actually I can't see him/her doing it for free, but I don't know. Seems like some of us can splurge for the vets fare...
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    does anyone ever get used to killing and eating their birds

    Seems like long ago I had a few problems with eating my birds after dealing with them. I guess my opinion is that after exposing yourself to it repeatedily, you will not be so sensitive about it. Its still not something I enjoy doing, but I prefer eating my own animals to tat of the ones from...
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    Siminar proposed to address caponization and other chicken care issues

    This was re-located, but I'm not sure if it wouldn't be better in the 'meat bird' section. This procedure is not normally done as a way of managing a flock. Some would think it is interesting, but 'not for me.' I just want to learn how to do it and have done all I can think of thus far, but...
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    Siminar proposed to address caponization and other chicken care issues

    I have a contact that can possibly supply the right vet to teach caponization if enough people are interested. Please respond here or PM me with your interest. Thanks.
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