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    25 Meaties with roomates of 2 Brahams pullets and 1 Braham roo ?????

    I have 25 8 week old meaties roos and pullets that I had to move to the bigger pen that houses 3 Brahams . Two pullets and one Roo, I was wondering if you think there would be a problem with them sharing the same coop for a week or two?? My problem is that the big coop is all fenced in, and...
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    Watery Eggs

    Good day all my chicken loving friends I have a question, I have Buckeye hens and they lay watery eggs. I don't know what I am doing wrong, or what the problem could be. They just turned a year old, so they are not old, and this has been going on for a few months. I also have a neighbor...
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    How Long??

    Out of my dual purpose birds that are 8 weeks old, how long do I let the cockerels grow before butchering. I have Buckeyes, and Chantecelers. I don't want them to get to old so that they aren't as tender.
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    Backyard dual flock

    I have Buckeyes, Chanteceller, and Amercauna chicks. the Buckeyes and Chanteceller's were born March 6th, I am going to use the males for meat, how long do I let them grow until I butcher them, and what do I feed them. The Amercauna's are 2 weeks old.
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    Hatched and Unhatched please help!!

    I have 9 beautiful babies in the bator that hatched I also have 31 more eggs in there, quite a few of them have pips, and one is zipped all the way, but may be shrink wrapped, when should I take the 9 out and leave the others in to finish hatching. I don't want to do anything that would...
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    Here are some of my babies!!! Please enjoy!!!

    the 6 outside ones are Bantam Silver Amercauna's the little brownish one in the middle is a LF Wyandotte, just very tiny so I put him/her in with the Bantam's. Buckeye True Amarcauna Chantecler All these little Fuzzy Butts are less than a week old!!
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    Droopy head and tail and than dead!!!

    I had a friend who just called me and told me someone has lost 3 chickens recently, the one was fine yesterday running around and than all of a sudden dead, they all had droopy heads and droopy tails, any ideas on what this could be!!
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    Answer ASAP please concerning water and lock down

    I just put my eggs into lock down last night, I have a Hovabator with a tray with chambers, I filled ALL chambers with water, I think according to the picture that I was to fill only the two center ones, eggs are due to hatch on Tuesday, what do I do! I will kick myself if I screwed up this hatch!!
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    Trio of Beautiful LF Rhode Island Red Rose Comb's

    I have a beautiful Trio of LF Rhode Island Red Rose Combs for Sale in West Central Wisconsin, they are all awesome birds, did awesome in show last year. These are PICK UP ONLY!!!! 2 Pullets, and 1 Roo They will be one year old in March. Pictures were taken just about a week ago except for the...
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    Beautiful Trio of LF Rhode Island Red Rose Comb's

    I have a beautiful trio of LF RIR Rose Comb's, 1 Roo and 2 Hens, they just turned 1 year old this month. They did awesome for showing in Fairs and Poultry shows. This is a pick up only!!!
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    Beautiful Trio of LF Rhode Island Red Rose Comb's

    I have a beautiful trio of LF RIR Rose Comb's, 1 Roo and 2 Hens, they just turned 1 year old in March. They did awesome for showing in Fairs and Poultry shows. This is a pick up only!!!
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    First Chick Pictures!!!

    Well here is a picture of my first chicks, they were Wyandotte eggs and Buckeye eggs put under a broody hen, felt bad for her knowing she was going to be stubborn and sit so during this horrible cold spell we had, 3 hatched out of 8, enjoy the one on the far left is a Wyandotte, Buckeye in...
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    Baffled!!! 1 year old and no eggs!!!

    I acquired 3 beautiful LF RIR Rose Combs after all of their showing. I bought them in hopes of getting eggs to hatch to start my own flock, they are going to be 1 year old in February and I have not had one egg yet!!! Any suggestions as to why this could be happening??? I check regularly and...
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    Rats!!!!

    Please help me!!! I have RATS!!! and lots of them, I would like some homemade rat poison ideas!!!!!! I got them all out of the coop, the food is in garbage cans, but, my Lord, they are tunneling under the coop!!! in the pens, heck I am going to break my leg one of these days, the receipt I got...
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    Wyandotte Question??

    I have BR wyandotte pullets and Roos, also blue Roos what is the Roo to keep for breeding the Blue Red???
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    How many Roos do you see???

    I am selling these Ameracauna chicks, they are 8 weeks old, I am about 90% sure that I have only 1 Roo, but not to sure because one of the pullets has a brighter comb than the others but nowhere as big as the for sure roo I know for sure the one is a roo, what is your take on the second one...
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    Rats!!!! Rats!!! And Just Plain Rats!!!

    HELP!!! I have rats, I hate rats, they are not in the coop's yet, but if they burrow anymore runways, one of my coops will fall into a sink hole. I did have a pest control company come and put a powder in the holes, assured that it would not hurt the chickens, and the rats have just burrowed...
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    Help!!! lock down, humidity with egg carton hatch!!!

    I am hatching for the first time in egg cartons, went into Lock down yesterday with a Wednesday hatch, question, there is humidity building up in bator, I have a Genesis Hova Bator, I have water coming out of the holes on the bottom and moisture building up on the plexi glass (see through bator)...
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    to hatch in egg carton or not??

    I am on my 3rd bator hatch, they go into lock down on Sunday, I have 21 eggs in the bator that have made it this far. My last two hatches I just placed the eggs on the floor of the bator (wire mesh), and I had chicks rolling the eggs with some of the eggs ending up in shells or turned over so...
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    Candling question??

    I candled my eggs tonight, day 12, 5 were bad, my question is the others when I turned them the inside's moved, is that normal??? I hope so or I am in big do do trouble:idunno
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