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  1. bethandjoeync

    ok my turn! what color are these silkies from tsc?

    I got a bargain on these little fuzzies! last week they I noticed they hot lots of buff colored silkies in the bantams bin and was so excited, but we were planning a beach trip for the weekend and knew I had to wait until after that. so today we go up there with the intention of getting chicks...
  2. bethandjoeync

    my jersey giants, aren't so giant ???

    We ordered chicks last spring, a nice assortment of great layers in all different colors. DH desperately wanted black jersey giants, he really wanted some huge chickens I guess. They are now a year old and I am wondering when they will start looking bigger than the rest of the flock. I don't...
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    well I think i was wrong on the breed of my bantam chicken

    well I had great guess the first time I posted about this little girlie but after looking at Privett's website (the hatchery that my TSC gets their chickies from) for someone else's post, I think this little girl is a Black Dutch Bantam and not a Minorca bantam. but it really just looks like a...
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    Went to TSC yesterday....they had a new batch of banties!!!

    I didn't get any of them though......jut had to pick up feed right before going to work. if I wasn't on my way to work...I probably would have bought some. anyways this year they have a large assortment of SR bantams and I wanted to insite on a few of the possible breeds. I haven't asked this...
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    trying to figure out what todo.....could be a touchy subject for some

    I raise this topic here because this is about using chickens as food not pets we have some friends that are interested in chicks.. ..well not for raising them and eating them....but for feeding them to his snakes as actual food. also we have a friend that is from Vietnam and is interested in...
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    went for a feed run yesterday......

    and they had Gold lace Polish and Silver Laced Polish in the Bantam bin!! as I called my DH to warn him that I was feeling weak against there cuteness charm....someone scooped tham ALL up! I guess it was a good thing tho. we aren't even set up with a brooder or anything right now. guess he...
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    finally after sooooo long!!!!!!

    we got a green egg today from our EE that has been holding out on us for almost a year!!! I was hopefull she would start laying again after my shepard mix got a hold of her and traumatized her (no injuries) last spring. she is my one and only olive egger and i was hoping she would start...
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    my chicken math scared my DH! lol

    yesterday I was doing a little bit of "chicken" math. trying to figure out how many laying hens I have now vs. how many eggs I am finally getting each day. and I had breed names beside numbers and such, on a piece of paper here at the computer. I go to work last night and start getting text...
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    yay they are laying again!!!!

    so I think over the winter we ended up putting the girls into a stall on the egg production. I mean we have 45+ girls and we weren't getting any eggs what so ever!! then I started thinking maybe we have someone eating the eggs before I could get to them. I know that we need to "thin the flock"...
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    possibly the best idea we have had yet! new waterer concept

    We have 50 chickens, most of them are larger breeds. and we have the plastic 3 gallon waterer that we are not so satisfied with anymore. it leaks, and it gets pretty heavy once it's filled up to the rim with water. then they run out bfore the day is over. we really needed to figure something...
  11. bethandjoeync

    What bantam breed is she??? I think we have our answer..black minorca!

    I got her from TSC last spring, from the bantam bin. she is kind of flighty. has slate legs, white earlobes, and a straight comb. she is all black and her beak is mostly black too. I have tried to figure out what breed she is. Is there such a thing as a black leghorn bantam?? her shape and...
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    bantams with the rest of the flock ok?

    I have mostly large breed chickens(JG, BR, BO, and reds) that are nearly a year old and others(that will go to the freezer within the next 2 weeks) that are nearly 2 years old and I have some bantam cochins and seabrights sharing the same coop as the others just in their own enclosed area. I am...
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    Wimpy rooster, but he didn't used to be

    my Rooster(the one in my avatar) must be going through an identity crisis or maybe just overwhelmed by the girls. He doesn't crow as much as he used to, and he lets the girls walk all over him (sometimes literally). It all started when he caught his foot in the fencing around the run, and got a...
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    pullet with swollen foot, is it early bumble foot?? w/pics

    I noticed that one of my 5 month old BOs has a swollen foot so I started searching for bumble foot because I remember reading about it a while back. but she doesn't have a noticable black scab that is prominent in these injuries, and she really isn't limping. I have separated her from the rest...
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    can I get a clear answer? how long to toss eggs after using Duramycin?

    I have searched and read so many threads (old and new) about tossing the eggs after using the stuff. On the package it says you can process the bird after 3 or 4 days of ending treatment. why would you have to toss eggs for longer than that?? some say 14 days, some say 21. I needed to use...
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    crowing battle...gotta love it

    our neighbors have a few roosters that crow constantly. my ee rooster, Sam, isn't the most vocal roo (my RIR roo was very vocal and loud) but over the past week or two the neighbor's roos have really been crowing up a storm. and I am sitting here listening to them go back and forth...
  17. bethandjoeync

    bantam or standard?

    I bought a total of 12 bantams from TSC during chick days and only 6 are actually smaller than my cackle hatchery order. the houdans that I got from tsc turns out they are the same size as all the other standards I have. the silkie I got for tsc is starting to look more standard than the others...
  18. bethandjoeync

    I think one of my girls needs an extra special treat

    I found this monster egg in the nest box today. after sending my jumbo egg layer to my dads so he could start his flock, we don't really get huge eggs anymore (they do). but every once in a while we will get a monster egg and here is one. I think I need to give my girls some extra treats...
  19. bethandjoeync

    I'm confused........what are these little bantams?

    I thought these were just regular white or buff cochin bantams but they have tuffs now??!! what could they be. their not exactly white, but their not exactly buff. I need help. are they just hatchery mutts? they are currently 6 weeks old (nearly 7 weeks) and I am doing my best to hold them...
  20. bethandjoeync

    of course I am going to paint a chicken on a birdhouse!! ;)

    my dad has been using his spare time and reclaimed deck wood to make birdhouses to paint and eventually sell. I love to paint and have done 3 already. I did the first one to look like a house with shrubbery and trees and such...nothing spectacular but it went over well. the second one I did...
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