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    Hen setting eggs first time?

    I see lots about incubators but I don't see much about hatching under a mama hen. I have a light brahma that decided she wanted to set a nest. So we've let her. I'm worried about her though. She doesn't seem to be getting off the nest to eat or drink at all. I'm also worried she's just going to...
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    Barred Rock Roos unfreindly/mean?

    Hi all! I've got about 21 birds that we're slaughtering starting today. The goal is to get it down to 3. (two hens and one roo) I've picked out the three that I find friendliest/prettiest and easiest to manage but a friend of ours is insisting we're not going to be happy with our choices. I...
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    I know you get asked this alot but..(weight/age/maturity at slaughter)

    I've got some birds and this is our second season of butchering birds. Last year we had cornish crosses and we were so worried that we were going to butcher too early that we ended up waiting too long and they were REALLY fatty!! (even though they were pasture raised. Lazy birds..) This year...
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    Never shown before, thought of starting at the county fair

    Hi all! I'm not thinking of showing seriously at all just at the local fair, but I'd like to have a chance at a ribbon of course! So where should I start? What do they look for? Is it like dog shows where they look for the breed standard? Does it have anything to do with personality? My birds...
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    How soon to switch to layer feed?

    My pullets are fully feathered out now and look like miniture adult birds. I have five adult laying hens that I'd like to move my cockrols and pullets in with but I know that there would be no keeping them from eachother's feed. So how soon is soon enough to move them down with the adults?
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    Cracked eggs?

    Hi group, My nesting boxes do have a little lip to them but clearly not enough of one because I can't keep any litter in the boxes. They throw it out. I didn't much care that they did that until we started seeing cracked eggs everyday. They're just slightly cracked so it doesn't look like any of...
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    Hen's and baby chicks

    I've had my five girls for nearly a year now. We just got 21 baby birds and they're growing nicely. They're up to about 4-5 weeks old now and they think they're big tough birds! So I took a few of my baby birds down to see the big hens. The baby birds started to run and try to follow the adult...
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    Uh-oh...egg eaters *sigh*

    Now...there have been many changes in the lives of my hens recently. So let me explain. My girls lived in the house they were raised in for a whole year. Now that the heat has hit I just built them a new hen house. I've got five girls in an 8ftx8ft hen house. They were very upset with the move...
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    Hysterical! Grown bird afraid of chicks!!

    I just got 21 day old chicks and would like them to have a mama. So I brought one of my prone to broody behavior-birds and she freaked out! They scared her so badly she had to squak and run away at top speed!!!! HA. I've got another girl who I introduced to the chicks and you could see it all...
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    Did I mess up?

    I just bought 21 straight run birds (or hatch run...however you say it) I had ordered them so I didn't choose them bird by bird. Now I'm worried that that's code for "all roos" Did I just make a huge mistake? We did this because we wanted a roo from each breed we bought (7 light brahmas, 7...
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    Hen-ington manor in the process-lots of pics

    We're in the process of building our new hen house. (I say "we" but read "me"!!! lol...) It's in the middle of two yards for the girls which will soon be fenced in. It's not done yet, but will be very soon. Check it out: This is the front as of today. The chicks will use the "people" door to...
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    Foster mama?

    I've got five laying auracanas, one or two of them have shown broodiness, but we have no roo's so we've broken the broodiness when we see it. However we're getting 21 day olds in a few days and I was wondering if there might be a way to see if any of my big girls would take to these new babies...
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    How do geese winter?

    Hi all! We live in NE Washington in the mountains and our local feed store has chinese white and brown geese. They are so adorable I want a pair! We've never had geese and my hubby is really worried about how well they'd winter. (mind you this is the man who bought an acordian heater for the...
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    hmm perplexing...sick or just fatty?

    So we just slaughtered one of our birds. She was a nine month old cornish cross and she was....fat. As we were dressing her out we saw the liver and it was covered in white spots. That was rather disturbing to me so I became worried that the rest of our girls were/are sick and we didn't know it...
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    Thinkin' about getting some geese!

    So I'm not new to chickens....we've got a few for both meat and egg production (and humor!! hehe) But I've never had any other types of birds. DH and I were at the feed shop today and there were baby geese!! They were adorable and we started thinking it might be really nice to have one or two...
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    New here-and question about a broody girl

    Hi all! First let me introduce myself. I'm Sara and my husband and I are on our second flock of chickens. Oh how I love their silly antics. We started our flock in June when we moved to a small family farm in the country. We started out with 20 cornish cross and 5 auracana's. We slaughtered off...
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