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  1. Chicken Rustler

    Washington Feather Fanciers Show Chehalis, WA Nov 17-18 Also birds that are being brought for sale

    Who is coming to look? Who is coming to show? What do you have to sell AT THE SHOW? http://washingtonfeatherfanciers.webs.com/ it says the catalog is locked until 10/16
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    Pullet found laying on her back.

    See one of our Am B pullets has been found a few times laying on her back. She is about ayear old. She was just laying there calm. When we picked her up and put her back on her feet she would kind of stagger off and then act fine. then we haven’t seen this for a month or 2. Now yesterday I went...
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    Was this an attempted ariel attack ???

    OK I need some ideas of what may have happened. I have 2 inch poultry wire over my banty run. The wire is normally about 3' off the ground. But when we got home from town today the wire was about a foot off the ground. The wire had a large depression about 2' across and in that there were 2...
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    5 eggs quit days before hatch. What may have gone wrong ???

    We had 6 eggs in the LG. 5 were olive green from the same hen and 1 brown from a different hen. All were fertilized by the same roo. The olive egger is also the daughter of this roo, I was told that should be ok. The brown egg hatched right on time. The olive eggs didn't. On day 22 we opened...
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    2 month chick weak having trouble standing.

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. I ws told it is a FBCM when it was given to me. About 2+ months. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Very weak uses spread wings to help balance, kind of crawls on belly trouble standing 3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? just started today 4)...
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    I NEED help with LG incubator. UPDATED 1/31 post #5

    I just got a used LG still air. I had it running for 3 days at 99*. Then decided to put in a fan that I had. Temps went crazy clear up to 120. Turned fan off but now I still can't get it to stablize. I watch for the tmep to get to 99 then move the handle VERY gently till the light goes out...
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    Easy way to clean Cast Iron skillets

    Well I discovered tonight a very easy way to clean the build up off cast iron skillets. It was by mistake of course but worked great. I decided to try the :self cleaning" feature of our oven. Well we store our C I skillets in the oven and silly me I fergot to take em out. When the oven got done...
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    Help !! What to do with 5 gallon of raspberries !!!

    Tonight I got my order of raspberry puree. It is frozen in a 5 gal bucket. I have it in the #2 egg fridge to thaw. I plan to vac seal and freeze some but would like some ideas to do with some. I plan to try some freezer jam. Any other good ideas ( not too complicated please ). Thanks Rob
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    Are your chickens wasting food? Check what yer feeding them.

    I just feel the need to share this, maybe I can help somebody else. We buy a ground feed that is made locally at a little mom & pop type place. My chickens had been eating it well and there was none wasted on the floor. Then since I had most of a bag of commercial feed I thought I would mix it...
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    Is he a keeper

    What do ya think is he a keeper. He is 20 weeks and was bought as a SR bantie.
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    OK can ya help me identify this little girl.

    She is 20 weeks and I think just getting ready to lay. Just for size comaprison. Then hen to the right is a RIR. The hole in the nest box is 9" diameter.
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    Should I wash my eggs

    OK so stupid question but do I need to wash my eggs? We have not been because they are not dirty. But the other day I sold some to a friend and they ask if we washed em. They were concerned about bacteria issues. What's the gen opinion on this to wash or not to wash. We figure if they aren't...
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    Young Bantam hen VERY droopy. hides from others.

    I have a 17 week old bantam, have been told she is campine. She just stands with tail drooped, neck drawn in, eyes not real wide. She is eating and drinking good. Her food is a locally produced that is mostly ground med fine. Her poo looks normal color and texture. I did a 5 day treatment of...
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    We finally got our first pullet egg. Picture

    Wel the wait has been driving us crazy. I keep checking the weeks but they seem to be going so slow. Well today is week 17 since we bought our chicks. Low and behold while I was picking the peas growing up the outside of the run the wife was checking things in the coop. All of the sudden she let...
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    HELP !!! Disappearing eggs !! UPDATE 7/5 We have 1 chick and a pip

    I have my neighbors silkie setting on eggs in my barn. She was setting on 8 eggs in an area totally enclosed in 1" chicken wire with my 3 14 week banties. She started setting on 2 of the eggs then other hens added 6 more before she was moved to this secure location. We are at the point that the...
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    How does this stuff happen ???? UPDATE Mystery solved page 3 6/22/09

    Today we went to the barn to check on the chickens and what a surprise. In the enclosed area where we have our 3 young banties there is a white silkie setting on 6 large brown eggs !! Now keep in mind that 1)we have no silkies 2) we only have 3 hens that are laying and 3) we check for and...
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    I think this was a money losing deal !!!

    Well we just got started in chickens. In March we bought chicks. Of the 6 RIR pullets we bought 2 turned out to be roos. Well since I didn't want RIR's for roos I decided to get rid of them. After some research I decided that it was probablly not worth the hassle to process them. I found a new...
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    Is this possibly one of my EE's

    I bought 2 EE's when I bought my 6 RIR and since they were all together I couldn't tell em apart. Now I have this one and one more that looks like her but not as light. I figure these must be my EE's since they are the only 2 that are different. Do ya think im right ? They were sold to me as...
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    Are these roos

    Ok so I bought 6 RIR chicks that were supposed to be Pullets but I think these 2 are roos. These are 8 weeks in the foto. Please help if they are roo I am going to try to find them a home. And this is my Bantam. Fuzz (because of the "hairy legs") is 6 weeks. I have been told it is a Mille...
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    Any ideas what may be wrong with my chicken ??? UPDATE 5/10

    One of my 8 week old chickens is acting sick. She is a RIR. She has been acting sick for a couple days, she stands kind of puffed up with her neck drawn into her body. I checked her over looking around her vent and under wings. I didn't see any signs of any "bugs". The other 13 chicks and 3 hens...
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