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    Ate our first home-processed chicken! Delicious pot pies!

    Background: We hatched 12 dual-purpose chickens (Marans crosses) last summer, with the intention of keeping the hens and processing the cockerels at 16 weeks. We booked our County Extension's processing equipment (cones, scalder, plucking machine) for October, but when we got it home, found...
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    Incubator issues - need advice!

    This is my first time hatching eggs with an incubator, and I need some advice. I set 22 eggs last night, and I'm having trouble keeping up the humidity. Here is the incubator I have: The temperature is maintaining the correct 99.5, but I can't seem to keep the humidity to 48-55%. I already...
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    Horses in the Heat Wave, PNW

    Here in the Seattle/Tacoma area, our average high temp for June is about 75f (24 or 25 C) but we're having a crazy heat wave! Yesterday it got about 90 (33C or so) and today, for the first time ever, it got up to 102! (40C). And tomorrow they're predicting 109, and on Monday 115! This is...
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    Where to buy Ginger

    Hi Gardeners, anyone know where to buy Ginger roots for planting? My normal source for plants and seeds in my area, Territorial Seeds, doesn't sell any. I went on Amazon, and the offerings were ahem, questionable at best. I'd like to grow some ginger, either in my greenhouse, in a container or...
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    No such thing a 2-monh old chick who lays eggs?

    We let the broody hen sit on a few eggs, and she raised one chick. The chick is all feathered now, and the whole flock likes her and protects her. She (or he really, we're just hoping it's a she) is about the size when we would normally introduce new pullets to the outside. Here are the eggs I...
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    Disturbing hen behavior, strange flock dynamics - please help.

    Hi folks, I need some help figuring out what is going on and what to do about it. Sorry in advance for the length, but I have to give some background first: We started with 2 hens who got along well, Molly the boss hen/best layer and Lucy the little hen, also a good layer. They lived in...
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    Tiny Hen - can cocciodosis stunt growth?

    My little RIR hen is 5 months old and still the size of a pigeon. The barred rock who was hatched at the same time is fully hen-sized, and the gold sexlink who is actually 2 weeks younger is even larger. Little Lucy the Red did have cocciodosis a couple months ago, at that time they were all...
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    Does this sound like coccidia?

    Hi, I'm new to this forum and though I've been a member of our town's chicken co-op for a couple years, I just got 3 pullets here at home a month ago, now two are 14 weeks old and one is 12 weeks. And now I have one who's ill... Anyway, yesterday morning my SO told me the chickens were "acting...
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    Hello, I'm new.

    Hi, I'm "Littledog" and I live in Western Washington state (the rainy part where summer lasts a couple days) on 2 acres in a small town. My household consists of 2 of us in our 50's, one energetic border collie, one horse who lives at a stable 15 minutes away, and my 3 pullets. I joined this...
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