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    BATERY OPERATD COOP MONITOR.

    I am looking for a battery powered sound monitor for a coop. All the baby monitors we can find are plug in or are rechargeable but only have 15 hours or less charge time. Our dog barks when critters come in the yard but he does it for anything including deer. I want to hear when the chickens get...
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    Grey chick unknown breed from our co-op

    We got our new flock at our co-op this spring, 6 barred rock pullets and 3 Americana's. 2 days after they were home my wife said we had 7 barred rocks but one is just flat grey. We added 6 more barred rock when Tractor supply had them for a $1.00 . But now as they get older we wonder what the...
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    Any one chicken wire in a broody hen?

    I have 20 eggs at day 6 of 21 in an incubator. Almost all the eggs are golden comet with a couple Americana eggs fertilized by the comet rooster. I have a coop of only buff orps and the coop has a rear egg door 3 feet wide and just longer than a standard laying box. I had put in roll away...
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    ELECTRIC FENCE PROBLEMS

    I have a small 110 powered electric fence for poultry. One side is the hot wire and the other is the ground. All the hot wire strand is on plastic insulators with nothing touching the chicken wire or anything else. The ground is good with 3 good earth grounds that never touch the hot side. I...
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    Cozy Products Safe Chicken Coop Pet Heater

    We recently had our chick disaster. 11 of our 20 chicks were taken in one night, weasel is my guess due to the headless ones we found in the brambles. I moved them to a Turkey coop for now and replaced our electric fence with a new one and got a new fence tester I was going to wait until spring...
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    WHEN DO BROAD BREASTED WHITES LAY EGGS

    We have some Broad Breasted Whites leftover from last year and I have two questions. At what age do they lay eggs and is there any chance they could be fertile eggs I could hatch. They will be 1 year in early May.
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    Can't post anymore

    I used to be one this site all the time. I came back to post some things and every time I do the script I type goes crazy. It drops letters or words adds things I never typed. I had to write a post in word copy and paste here, then it got posted 3 times. I have no problem with my computer or on...
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    WHERE TO BUY TURKEY BAGS

    We are running low on bags and we don't need a 100 pack. just wondering where is the cheapest to get them?
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    WHEEZING ROOSTER

    I have a 20 week old Cockerel with a breathing problem. He wheezes was he takes a breath. In every other way he looks and acts fine. I took him inside in a cage to separate him from the rest, even if it's too late. I gave all the flocks oxytetrocycline in the water. I gave him some in his water...
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    CORNISH ROCK CONVERT

    We raised Cornish Rock for the 1st time this year. Previously I raised Red Rangers. I kept a few Rangers and bred them, good egg layers. This year I decided to try the Cornish. I was hearing all kinds of horror stories about Cornish with medical issues finding them dead etc. Nothing like that...
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    BEST PLACE TO GET A XL KILLING CONE

    I have Cornish rock birds ready to go o the freezer. Today we processed 7 of 14 but my killing cone with a 10.5 opening up top was small and I need a bigger one. One of the birds was 8.0 lbs dressed and the rest of the 7 birds are larger.
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    CORNISH ROCK HAVE A BAD REPUTATION OR WHAT

    I have raised chicken for a few years now but I was always afraid to raise the jumbo cornish rocks. The stories I hear are bad legs heart attacks and they eat them self to death. Well this year I got some and nothing like that has happened. This is week 8 and no one is sick or has a bad leg...
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    DROWNED TURKEY A WARNING FOR ALL

    We had 6 Turkey poults that are one month old. I went out this am to check on food and water levels. I go in the coop and count 5 birds, so I start looking for #6 and quickly find it in the 5 gallon waterer dead. It must have flew up to the bucket and roosted there and I wonder if it went after...
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    how long do they need heat

    It has been a few years and I forgot. How long to keep turkey under a heat lamp? They are in a box in a coop and going on week3.
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    Rooster not taking care of his hens

    I know this is a family site so I will be as polite as can be. We took a cockerel off of craigslist last year, a RIR. He took over the coop in one hour and dominated the highest hen and he was crowing and doing his job, we had fertile eggs and we hatched out one chick. Now he crows but no...
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    How to determine the cause of death.

    I have 2 year old layer that had a pale comb and her head was pulled back. Last night I rubbed the crop to see if it was clogged and found nothing. This morning she is dead. None of the other birds show any problems. The only other thing I saw last night was hard breathing. How can I determine...
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    WHAT BREED IS YOUR BEST EGG LAYER?

    Thought about making a poll but there are more breeds out there and people would be asking why isn't this breed on the list. I think my NH reds are #1 over my Buff Orpingtons, Golden Comets or the Jersey Giants. My surprise good layers are my Rangers, the lay some JUMBO eggs. SO whats your best...
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    BREEDING HYBRIDS

    I am experimenting with breeding Rangers. I know that they won't breed true but the few I have hatched some and they are growing quickly and look like the parrents. My question is there a lowerhatch rate because they are hybrids? Out of 2 hatchings I have done the hatch rate was bad, butthe...
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    GREEN BEANS ALMOST DEAD

    I reclaimed an old garden I had that had been over run by weeds, wild roses etc. We have nothing but rocks around here and I wanted a bigger garden so I used the back hoe and dug up a 20-25 or so garden. Things in some parts are doing ok but where I planted my first beans was the old garden and...
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    2 YEAR OLD BIRDS AND SOFT SHELL EGGS

    OK this is more a gripe then anything. I have 2 year old layers that are slowing down on egg laying and some of the eggs have a soft shell. I feed them layer feed and include oyster shell on the side. I get some eggs that look to be membrane only or really thin shell. I do not feed them chicken...
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