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  1. Runawaylobster

    Fowl Poxx Vaccination - side effects

    I just vaccinated everyone this morning, i get so sick of them getting fowl pox at this particular time of year just when the rainy season starts. SO... I vaccinated about 50 chickens today with the supplied wing stabber.. (anyone who didn't get it last year plus the newbies). Now this...
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    Black/Blue/Splash Copper Marans Hatching Eggs

    Blue Copper Marans Rooster over Blue Copper and Black Copper Hens . Price is $15.00 per half dozen with shipping and handling at cost. right now I have the following birds available two crested cream legbar chicks - female $15.00 each several young cockerels, lavender orpingtons, blue wheaten...
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    Merging Rooster Batchelor Pads

    I successfully keep groups of roosters together, especially if they were raised together, but i am just getting logistically fried by keeping them in separate groups. when i put hens together i do it in groups so that there is a complete re-shuffle and it works well, I have also...
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    Cooking frozen chicken in a crock pot

    I just got a new crock pot and i'm itiching to try it out, i'm in the process of defrosting a chicken to put in there, but i was wondering if I can just cook it frozen. here is my thought process: if you look online you will see the USDA guidelines say NO!! no cooking of frozen chicken, but...
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    Looking for processor in south florida

    I live far south in florida and I cannot find a local processor for my excess boys, does anyone know of a place or a person who does this in my area. I can go as far north as Broward county, but further than that doesn't really make much sense. I have culled myself and i just plain don't...
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    Broody Hen Hatching Process.

    I have a broody hen sitting on eggs and this morning when i passed by i heard peeping and clucking from the hen. I peeked into the nest but can't see anything without disturbing her which i didn't want to do. I haven't heard any peeping for quite a while now and no more clucking.. I havent...
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    Adding a bigger Roo to the batchelor pad

    I have a pen full of roosters that i am growing out until i figure out who to keep they are 4 months old.. I also have another rooster who is about 6 weeks ahead of them in age (from a different hatch) and he is currently in jail for being a troublemaker. He is aggressive and side steps up to...
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    Various Birds and chicks For Sale

    Cream Legbar Flock $25.00 per bird, 3 laying hens and two roosters. one laying hen with bad leg and tail added in for free (just don't hatch her eggs). local pickup only. Can deliver as far as Ft. Lauderdale.
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    GQF 1502 Question

    I just got started with my 1502 but I am having an issue with the hatching tray. I have scoured allover online but can't find any info on this and i really can't believe that nobody else has had this problem. When the bottom tray makes it's full turn the edge of it goes below the top of the...
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    WL/EE cross Rooster going by the name of Wilson

    Wilson is looking for a home He is located in Homestead Florida, but i can bring him a bit further north if needed, say as far as Hialeah. He is 12 weeks old.. Hatched December 14th. if you would like Wilson please send me a pm..
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    How Many Lumens to candle?

    I am a cave diver so I have bright LED cave lights on hand and i've been using them for candling but generally they don't work well on Marans Eggs.. They are very bright so i'm wondering if they need to be more focused? SO I started researching what kind of LED would work better and there...
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    Can anyone tell me that this pretty baby is not a boy?

    This baby is 9 weeks, White Leghorn/EE cross. the sole survivor of a batch of shipped hatching eggs. I was sure he/she was a girl and then suddenly started to look a bit roo ish.. I so hope i'm wrong. I can tell my marans a mile away but i've never had either of these breeds before.
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    Do I need to build a batchelor pad?

    I have a nice big grow out pen/tractor (8x20) with about 30 babies in there. They were hatched on 12/21 so about 6 weeks old. Assuming a 50/50 mix i must have 15 boys in there. Counting them is not easy :), so i just estimate. Just today I started noticing some little baby fights...
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    Incubator Fan Air Flow Rate - Built in fan vs 80mm Computer fan

    I have an LG still air. I purchased an 80mm computer fan and installed it in the exact way that the LG fan kit is installed, except used external power supply instead of wiring it into the built in power supply. I noticed on my last hatch that I was getting drying during hatch even though...
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    Moving up to the big pen.

    I have 4 black coppers 2 girls and 2 boys that hatched on November 9th, they are now pretty big, and size wise would be mixable in my layer pen that has a number of different types of hens in there but no roos right now. My concern is that the ones in that pen are on layer pellets, and the gang...
  16. Runawaylobster

    Chicken Composting

    I was just reading the article about composting with chickens and I had an idea. Currently my run has sand in it but i have to buy it and get it delivered which gets crazy expensive. BUT I have a lychee orchard and I am knee deep in dead leaves all the time, so after reading the article i...
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    Golden Campine with rose comb?

    This is my campine "Speedy", as least i thought she was a campine until I realized that campines are supposed to have a single comb? is she really a campine?
  18. Runawaylobster

    quasimodo chicken

    Uff... well I have several things to talk about. in September I got an order of chicks, most of whom passed in shipping :(.... the 5 survivors were interesting. I have kept them separated from my main coop, but my birds do go over to the chicks coop and visit with them through the wire...
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    Mystery Illness

    I have 5 young Marans (between 2 1/2 and 4 months) in a really huge pen for 5 (8 x 20). It is a tractor that gets moved every 2 weeks. I was really excited to get the tractor going because I wanted them to get a new healthy spot of grass rather than living on a build up of whatever!! I...
  20. Runawaylobster

    Feisty baby rooster moving in with 6 month pullets

    I just got some "chicks" by mail. Some are quite big (hardly a chick actually), and the biggest is a rooster. I don't know how old he is but he was trying to crow this morning. I'm guessing weight wise maybe 3lb. He arrived with some much smaller chicks and a medium sized pullet so I...
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