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  1. leasmom

    Landlord won't allow chickens, I need to do it Undercover!!!

    I gave up my chickens in Michigan to move back to Tennessee where having chickens isn't a big deal at all. We ended up in an apartment for 3 months and as of today we are back into a house. The previous renter had dogs and now the landlord won't allow pets even outside, but I'm gonna put in a...
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    Is there something wrong with my chicks???

    I have 18 meat birds who are doing very strangely. They are pecking at their feathers or eachothers feathers because there are a few bald spots on some. They all have large bubbles under their skin at their necks. What is going on with them??? My tiny aracauna doesnt have the missing feathers...
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    Grass Feeding Meat Chickens, info needed

    I got my meat chickens on Wednesday so they will be a week old tomorrow. I get various info on how to raise them. I need some good info. At what age/day/week do I start taking their feed away for a day. Can I feed them grass and at what age? If I am feeing them grass, do I feed them their feed...
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    Trade three LAYING HENS for 3 chicks/pullets-(Metro Detroit Area)

    I have a black australop, a black sex linked-Both of these are big birds and a Golden Sex Link thats a year old that are all good layers and I would love to trade them for some chicks/pullets, any breed. I am living in a neighborhood and they are too loud for my neighborhood, thats the only...
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    Processing Good Egg Layers because they're LOUD

    I live in a neighborhood and I have 16 chickens. There are some chicken noises that are fine but I have about four birds that are just plain LOUD. I think my neighbor screamed out her door today saying, "SHut up birds." There so loud I can hear them inside the house and they are in the garage...
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    Aracauna Chicks for Sale-(metro Detroit area)-$3.50

    I will have about 10 aracauanas for sale on Thursday for $3.50 each. Please contact me. I'm in the Redford/Livonia area.
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    First meat Birds-(HELP)

    I've had chickens over a year now and I currently have 16-(with three being pullets). I've never raised meat chickens before so got several questions. 1) I have cornish rock mixes and white rocks coming, do I need to keep them separate? 2) Do I need to feed them special meat bird feed? 3) Do I...
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    Just bought new hens, are they egg eaters???

    I just got 7 new hens Saturday night. One is a pullet and she isn't laying yet. So I have the 6 that are older hens of varying breeds. I got 3 eggs yesterday. I was surprised because I thought they'd need longer to adjust. Well, today I noticed that all of them except the pullet were ready to...
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    What Feed do you use and Where do you get it?

    I think I'm having chicken envy or something...but every time I go and see someone elses chickens they are much larger than mine and I am thinking...what are you feeding them? Now I buy a regular non-medicated feed at my local feed store and they have Armada Brand feed with 18% crude protein. I...
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    Candling brown eggs?

    How do you candle brown eggs?
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    Tip up or Tip Down in carton?

    I thought it was tip up. Is it?
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    Grains vs. Feed-Confusing Advice

    I have had chickens now for over a year and I still consider myself a newbie at it. I've had all kinds of breeds and right now I have 6 hens and 3 pullets. I keep getting different advice that is confusing me. I have some people that say use whole grains instead of feed, some that say use feed...
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    What is this???

    This is a Hen. They're are no Spurs. I checked and double checked. She has greyish feathers around her neck that when she got upset flexed up. Is she an aracauna mix??? If so, mixed with what?
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    Improving the Color and Taste of Your Eggs

    I was excited that I sold three dozen for the first time but then saddened when they wrote to me that they didn't like them. So then I asked to give me a review of the eggs so I could make adjustments. Right now the hens are in the garage in a pen where they can move around etc. with plenty of...
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    Why are my eggs lighter in color?

    Okay...I have 4 layers, a RIR-(she's been laying for over 6 months now), and three new layers, a Golden Sex Link and two Red Sex Links. I noticed esp. with my RIR that her egg is alot lighter. Now I have them in the garage with artificial light-(White Christmas lights and a Heating Lamp)-that...
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    We got three free Texas A & M quail today, HELP!

    I have them in a cage with a light, they are babies... I have chickens and never thought to raise quail. Does anyone know about them...and what about their eggs, what to do with their eggs when their older??? Are they like chickens, can hens lay them without a male?
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    Mystery Hen...Just got today-(updated with lots of Photos)

    What is she???
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    Who Laid this egg?

    I have a barred rock-(but this egg is darker than what I've seen so far of barred rocks), a golden sex link, two red sex links and one black sex link pullet.
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    I think I spoiled my chickens!!!

    Okay, I give them snack several times a day and I think they've stopped eating their feed and just wait for me to come out several times a day, checking on them in the garage and bringing them whole wheat bread-(right now because of my budget, I give them this daily), lettuce/cabbage-(on...
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    Three Mystery Birds

    Okay, I've got three hens that are almost ready to lay...what breed are there? I have two that look like this so I just took one picture because they are the same. They are lighter than my Rhode Island Reds: And this is the only one I have like this, what breed is she?
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