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    Returning Member!! So Excited!!

    Hey there! So we used to have chickens, ducks, turkeys, and guinea fowl several years ago, but then my kids and I moved to a new area and have been renting for the past 3 years. Well, we just bought a house with a nice, big (for this area anyway) yard and I (and the kids, of course) am super...
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    Happy Easter (eggs)

    I guess the ducks and chickens KNEW that today was Easter! I think we got 20 eggs today! Here are a few: Hope everyone had a great day! Thanks! Helga
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    A sampling of today's eggs...

    Hi All!! I just wanted to share this picture of the beautiful and different colored eggs from today. It has just started warming up here and the hens we raised in the fall have *just* begun laying. Today I confirmed that it is, indeed, the Easter Eggers laying the beautiful blue eggs. Hugs Helga
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    Weed Control

    Hi All! Is it safe to assume that I shouldn't use any kind of lawn fertilizer with weed killer in it because it would be harmful to the free range chickens/ducks/guineas/turkeys? Thanks! Helga
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    Do white Leghorns have different colored legs?

    I ordered 5 white leghorn chicks from Nature's Hatchery about 3 months ago. We got one extra white ones for a total of 6. 5 of the white ones have yellow legs and the 6th one has blue legs. In all other aspects she looks the same. Is she a leghorn too? Thanks Helga
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    One of our Bantys is missing...did she go broody?

    Hi all! We have 5 bantams (2 roos and 3 hens) and we thought we had lost one of our hens. None of us had seen her for at least 2 days. Surprisingly, my hubby said that he saw her with the other bantys this morning, but now she is MIA again. I know that at least one of the bantys started laying...
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    New turkeys...keep them penned?

    Hi all! We just got 3, 20 week old turkeys today. The guy we got them from said to keep them penned up for a few days. We free range our ducks, chickens and guineas and put them in a coop most nights. Is it necessary to keep the turkeys penned for a few days? Thanks! Helga
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    Quick Turkey Question

    Hi there! We are thinking of getting turkeys. There are two hens and a tom available. Is one tom to two hens a good ratio? I know with ducks and chickens there should be a high female to male ratio. Is it the same with turkeys? If that is the case, maybe we will just get the hens. Thanks Helga
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    Puppy Chicken Missing!!

    Last night we went to put the chickens and ducks in the coop (all free range) and my favorite hen out of the four was missing. Her name is Black Rose (my 5yo daughter named her) but I recently started calling her Puppy Chicken because she follows us around like a puppy. We had a thunderstorm...
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    3 days old chicks with one closed eye?

    Hey all! I have two white leghorn chicks that are keeping their left eyes closed. I thought maybe they got stuck shut by goop or something, so I wetted a piece of toilet paper with warm water and gently swept it across the eye. They did open them. None of the other 13 seem to be affected, but...
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    Something tripped our trap...

    So, last night was night 4 since something killed my roo' and all has been quiet. No signs of anything and 4 nights of an empty trap. Last night we used marshmallows and eggs and covered the trap with split open feed bags. No predator, though something DID trip it...I think it was this guy...
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    Quick egg question

    We have free-ranging hens. We found a clutch of 20 or so eggs in a hidden location. Not sure how long they have been there. Is it safe to collect and do the float test or should be just toss them? If they float, they're bad, right?
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    Nature's Hatchery. Good Experience!

    I ordered 4 ducklings (2 Khaki Campbells and 2 indian runners) and 15 pullet chicks (5 RIRs, 5 white Leghorns, 3 Ameraucanas, 2 Buff Orpingtons) from Nature's Hatchery. I ordered online over a weekend and then called on Monday to get shipping dates. The shipping dates they gave me were August...
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    They're HERE!!!

    My 15 pullet chicks from Nature's Hatchery arrived this morning...a day earlier than we were expecting. They are all adorable and active. They all seem healthy. I am not good at telling chicks apart, but here is what I ordered: 5 white Leghorns 5 RIRs 3 Ameraucanas 2 BOs I know I have two...
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    Recommend a Game Camera.

    UPDATE Our neighbor has an alarm company, and he has a couple single camera DVR units laying around. He is going to install one for us that we can just borrow for a few weeks until we figure out what is messing around with our babes!! AWESOME!! I am ticked about the recent death of my young roo...
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    Look who arrived bright & early this morning!!

    I ordered 4 ducklings (2 Khaki Cambells & 2 Indian Runners) from Nature's Hatchery. They were right on target with the shipping date. The ducklings shipped on Monday and arrived today. The chicks are due to ship today. So far they all seem healthy and active. The Indian Runners are like little...
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    Raccoon or other??

    We had a roo go missing. He was roosted on top of the pen rather than inside the locked coop. There were three others up there with him. They got away without harm. We just found a bunch of feathers around the pen. We follow a trail of feathers into the woods for quite awhile but then lost the...
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    Poultry dust and DE

    Today I got something similar (I hope) to poultry dust called Gordon's Dairy & Livestock Dust (permethrin and says it can be used on poultry). I also ordered a 50# bag of food grade DE the other night. I have never seen any mites/bugs/lice on the chickens, but want to dust just in case. What...
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    Something got Pepper :(

    Pepper was one of our RIR cockerels. We had three of them and he was the friendliest. He would let you pet him and pick him up. Around 3am, I heard a noise outside my bedroom window, turned on the outside light, and noticed a hen running in the driveway. I went out to check and saw one of the...
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    What should I be feeding them?

    Hi there! We have chickens (4 hens, 3 RIR cockerels, 3 bantam pullets and 2 bantam cockerels, 15 pullet chicks on the way) and 30 ducks of varying ages (with another 4 on the way). They are all free range and out grazing all day. We have fed them nothing but scratch (cracked corn, oats, grains...
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