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  1. TexasLady

    Instant Mashed Potatoes

    Has anyone fed these to chickens? If I have bugs in mine, are they safe to feed dry or do I need to mix bugs and potatoes up first, then feed them? If you've fed them dry, please let me know . I don't want to make my chickens sick or die.
  2. TexasLady

    Silkie Colors

    I purchased 50 silkies, but many are males. I just want one flock, but I wouldn't mind a male with them. If I keep a male, I'd like to keep one that is a desirable color (in case I'd like to sell chicks someday). What color is the most saleable color? I like whites. I doubt that blacks...
  3. TexasLady

    Sex My Silkies Please

    http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg122/kfielding_photos/ltbrchickcomb_zps3e8169f4.jpg I think the Partridge is a male. I really like him/her, so that would not be so lucky. I think one white might be a male, the biggest one, but I think the other three could be females.
  4. TexasLady

    Dubbed Rooster

    I have a person who works for me that wanted one of my roosters. I made him promise that he would not fight the rooster (which he said he liked to watch and had been to cock fights) and that he would not dub him. I told him that I would not sell to someone who was going to fight a rooster and...
  5. TexasLady

    Silkie Sexing

    I just recently purchased a batch of Silkies from a hatchery. Frankly, I would not have done that, but I wanted them for hatching hens. (I purchased five or so last year for the same, and true to form, they are already setting eggs.) I just don't think there are any birds that set eggs as...
  6. TexasLady

    White Plymouth Rock question

    What amount of black is allowed in exhibition birds? If a bird has a 3" black side to a flight feather (with the other side being white), can the bird still be shown? Do young birds get black in their flight feathers that, if pulled, the black color doesn't come back black but white...
  7. TexasLady

    New Ameraucana Color

    Not for a minute would I consider myself an expert. But I got some eggs from someone.... Now I got a cockerel (this shows how he is colored) (This is a better picture of his actual coloring.) And this is a pullet. You probably can't see...
  8. TexasLady

    Definitely Ameraucana, But What Colors Made Him?

    I got a few eggs that were Lavender Ameraucanas. As you know, this is not a color yet, but I sure do love it! So what do you think this color combination was--Wheaten? He does have dark legs, but they are slate colored rather than dark colored. Should I use him? I think he's the only...
  9. TexasLady

    White/Columbian Marans Cockerel Auction

    I am auctioning off a white/Columbian Marans cockerel. This cockerel is really a friendly, nice bird. He could easily be tamed and taught to come for food. I have kept him considering using him, but I have no hens that would work with him. Maybe I can get someone else started in this color...
  10. TexasLady

    Americans

    I have been to the auction recently, and they were selling American chicks. I thought it very strange because I thought poultry cannot be imported. I stopped later to talk to a woman who had purchased some chicks that looked like barred Plymouth rocks. She said they were American chicks...
  11. TexasLady

    WANTED: Farmer's Caponizing Set made by Pilling

    Looking for a set for a reasonable price. If you have one, please msg me and let me know what you want for it. Thanks.
  12. TexasLady

    Best Processing/Killing Method----PLEASE HELP!

    I do not like this part of raising chickens, but it is one I know that I must do. I would much rather find my roosters in the freezer than in a cock fight (where many of them will go here in California if I sell them). The roosters that are sold are often used to train the cocks to fight. If...
  13. TexasLady

    Show Chickens

    I know absolutely nothing about how to judge a good bird. It is hard to read the standards to try to figure out how to judge a good chicken. I am reluctant to enter chickens in the fair for fear I will enter one that is not even close to a good chicken. I have a few weeks off, and I thought...
  14. TexasLady

    Bloody Chick--Picking Solution

    I thought I'd post this because it worked so well. I have a neighbor who is a nurse. When I get an injury where I bleed, he always says, "Use some gorilla glue on it." I never have, scared me to do it. But he claims that is something that they use in the hospital all the time (probably not...
  15. TexasLady

    IT NEVER WORKS! I GIVE UP!

    I purchased a used GQF. I probably put in 200 eggs 2 years ago. I hatched less than 30. So I called. GQF told me that it was an ostrich hatcher, and that I needed to change the motor for chickens. I did. Now I purchased Accurite thermometers, and they are on all 3 levels. I have temps...
  16. TexasLady

    Roosters' Fertility

    If a rooster has apparently gone sterile, will he come back when summer comes? I've tried to set at least 30 eggs, and they all look sunny and bright inside when I candle them a week or ten days later. He is with five hens. Unfortunately, he is a spectacularly nice little rooster, and I...
  17. TexasLady

    Air Sac in Shipped Eggs

    I was so happy to get eggs from one of the members here (don't know if I should use names). I had an incubator problem, and it was keeping one level at 106 and the other at 99 (which I didn't know until I couldn't figure out why that level had no good eggs). (It never occurred to me that...
  18. TexasLady

    OH NOOOOOOO!

    While I was gone at work, the power went out. Apparently it was off for only a short period. Let me think, my clock says 9:30. I left at 6:45. So that means that it has been back on for 9 and a half hours (since it restarts at 12:00). So it must have been off for about 1.5 hours. The door...
  19. TexasLady

    GQF Problem

    I purchased a used GQF a few years back. So after trying to use it for a year with very little success with my chicken eggs, I called GQF and discovered that it was for Ostrich eggs. (The seller didn't bother to tell me that, and in fact, told me that he had been successfully using it for...
  20. TexasLady

    Intense Blue Egg Question

    What kind of chicken would have laid this small, intense blue egg? I've never seen one so blue.
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