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    Anatolian shepherd dogs

    Does anyone keep Anatolians and flock protectors? I have a friend with five pups (out of a litter of twelve) from wonderful working parents and I am considering buying a couple of them. The price is right and they have been raised well, so it is hard to resist.
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    My hawk experiment: finger's crossed.

    As the subject line states, this is an experiment... I can not claim that this is a solution to hawk problems, but I thought that I would share my experience so far. I have chickens that free-range on pasture and within an electric net fence. The pasture in fairly open, with the exception of...
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    Your favorite magazines? Looking for something new to me.

    My nephew is selling magazines as part of a school fundraiser, and I MUST order one even though I don't have time to read the few that I receive now... but you all know the drill! I would like to try something new to me. So tell me, what are your favorite magazines and why are they your...
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    Ohio Mille Fleur d'Uccles ?

    Gorgeous Mille Fleur d'Uccle roo searching for cute Mille Fleur d'Uccle pullets/hens for long-term relationship. Girls must be willing to relocate to his pastoral setting on a permanent basis. He is hoping for kids in the future. Good provider, excellent home, lots of good groceries...
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    Any ideas for in-pasture protection?

    I'm getting tired of losing birds to hawks! So far, we have lost bantams and young standard birds and that is hard enough to accept, but I want to try some deterents before the big girls are targeted as well. My flock free-ranges during daylight hours. They have access to the coop (a large...
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    Tell me about cochins. Standard vs Giant?

    We recently aquired a gorgeous Giant Cochin roo. We plan to eventually introduce him to our flock of mixed breed standard hens (their current manly companion is tiny mille fleur d'uccle who trys his level best but just can't seem to "connect" well enough to produce fertile eggs!) "Mr. T" (new...
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    First time broody silkie, give her more eggs?

    I have a broody silkie sitting on one of her eggs. How many more standard size eggs could I give her with a reasonable hope of hatching success?
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    First broody, bad location, what to do?

    Would love some advice on this... we have a OEGB hen that is brooding a clutch of her own eggs (yippee!) but has created her nest in the hay loft of our barn. I am concerned about her safety and the safety of the chicks should they hatch, but I am most concerned about her health since getting...
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    Any Mille Fleur d'Uccle crosses out there?

    I would love to see pics of any Mille Fleur d'Uccle crosses. Our only rooster is a MFd'U (I haven't seen an abbreviation for this before, please forgive mine if it seems a bit goofy) and he is, ummm... servicing (is that term allowed?) a mixed flock of standard layers along with one lone silkie...
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    Good "pop door" designs?

    Our flock is housed in a modified horse stall in one of our barns. It has worked well, but we are a bit sick of the chicken mess throughout the barn aisle (the stall door has so far been their only entery/exit point) so we are going to add a pop door in the back wall of the barn. If we leave...
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    Youngsters sleeping under roosts. Gross!

    I have some young birds that have shown NO interest in the roosts provided. They all pile up together on the floor of the coop for the night. (Not just a cold-weather thing either, they did this in the heat as well.) The coop is quite secure, so I don't worry about predators or vermin being...
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    Am I the alpha "roo?"

    I have one little Mille Fleur d'Uccle roo with eighteen pullets and hens of varied ages and breeds, mostly standard heavy breeds (well, one may be an Iowa Blue cockerel, but isn't acting rooish yet.) The roo is a real sweetheart and I rarely see him even dance for one of the ladies, much less...
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    Oxine users, question about spraying on birds...

    ... I know that it is done, but I can't seem to find the details. I need to know the correct solution to use, how much Oxine AH per gallon of water. I appreciate your time and help!
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    Correct dosage Ivomec Eprinex? SO CONFUSED!

    Someone in my flock has worms. I picked up Ivomec Eprinex pour-on for beef and dairy cattle today after reading multiple posts about it. I have the correct syringes as well. Now, confusion sets in! Please, folks who have used this before, tell me what the correct dose (dropped on the back...
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    Extra small marans pullet... problem?

    I have a pair of aprox. 7 week old cuckoo marans pullets. They are probably sisters, but I don't know for sure. When they arrived at about 1 week old they were identical in size an appearance, but at this point one of them is easily twice the size of the other. The little one is eating and...
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    Does anyone keep Iowa Blues? Questions.

    About six weeks ago, my husband offfered to pick up two marans chicks for me on his day off. By the end of the day, he had collected the two marans, a welsummer, a silkie, a black austrolorp, a buff orpington and two day-old Iowa Blues! Yes, he is a bit of an impulse buyer. The Iowa Blues...
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    Anyone using hardwood shavings? Any tips?

    I have been using straw as bedding in our large coop (12' x 12') but would like to switch to shavings. We use wonderful hardwood shavings for the 20 plus horses here on the farm, so I would love to use them for the chickens as well. I understand that they mold more easily than pine... are...
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    Winterizing converted horse stall coop; ideas for the ignorant??

    Our chickens are in a (aprox.) 12'x12' horse stall in a six stall barn. Two of the four sides are solid (one with a barred (for horses) window that we leave cracked open in warm weather. The other two sides are solid from floor to about half-way up, where they become rebar-slatted. One of...
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    Winter care for tired hens & new youngsters?

    We keep layers, and though I understand that I can encourage them to lay throught he winter by controlling the light, I am wondering if I should. A handful of our hens are new to us, but are roughly a year to eighteen months old. They were used as producers of "purebred" fertilized eggs before...
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    Advice on chicken runs/ pasture space?

    Greetings. I could certainly use some advice! I recently went from a very small "day-pastured" flock of five chickens who never wandered out of our pastures, to a larger flock (25 birds) full of far-wandering hens. Their night-quarters are wonderful... a very secure five-stall barn. I am...
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