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    Scratch & Peck feed - Do your chickens eat the healthy stuff or just yummy grains?

    We have recently moved and need to switch feed brand for our flock of Dutch bantams. In the past they were on mazuri gamebird breeder or maintenance feed. All the vitamins were baked into the small kibbles. The birds ate well on it and kept them in great condition. We moved to Washington...
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    Want Your Coop Thoughts? Moving & Building New Coop

    We are moving from WI to Wa late this summer and taking some of our Dutch bantams with us. Gotta still have chickens but 12 is the maximum making the move. Were going to need a new coop and looking to pick your brains about what you like or don't like in your coops. Right now we have all our...
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    Opinions on Greehouse Shed Coop in NW Washington

    We are moving later this summer to the Olympic Peninsula area in NW Washington. We are cutting WAY back on chickens and taking only about 10 of our Dutch bantams with us. We don't need a coop to tolerate sub zero winters anymore but still want a coop that is insulated with good ventilation...
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    Nipple watering system ideas for large brooders?

    We have been fairy happy with nipple waterers in our breeding groups and want to add them to the brooder box. Looking for your ideas for nipple water system for chicks. We have a 6.5' x 3' brooder.We usually divide it in half as we hatch out about 70 to 100 chicks in staggered hatches. The...
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    Are your Chickens Happy with Sand in Runs?

    Several of our runs are rocky and I am thinking of adding a thick layer of sand on top of the ground. The coops are inside a old dairy barn. The ground where the runs are built is on a rock base, some soil, some larger rocks mostly burried in the ground and little rocks that just poop up from...
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    Showmanship-How young is too young (chicken age)

    What age of chicken would a judge consider to be too young for showmanship? My daughter is starting a pullet to use as her main showmanship bird, The Serama hen she has used for several years is getting older and showing age. The pullet would be 4 months old and would only be used for...
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    Most Humane Way To Euthanize

    One of my 11 year old daughters hens needs to be culled, she knows it needs to be done but wants to have it done in the most humane way. Snap the neck, ax, ideas please
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    Little Scaredy Chicks!

    Our oldests chicks, 3 to 6 weeks, are living in a "brooder" coop in the barn. Toasty warm and very bright with lots of room, they love it. It has been very warm and the side of our stone barn was covered with box elder beetles. I thought, wow, they snapped up the 2 beetles that were crawling on...
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    Sand Lovers, Advice Please for Runs!

    We are adding 8 runs for our breeding pens and are thinking about sand instead of grass which we know will quickly just turn to dirt= mud. Would love to have we them on grass but cant afford to make runs big enough for that. We do rotate groups out into the yard when were home so they have some...
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    Ecoglow Heater, How do you keep top Clean, lots of Poopies!

    Loving our new Brinsea ecoglow brooder heaters, so do the chicks. The ecoglow is the center of activity in the brooder, chicks runnining and out and now that they are older lots of playing ontop. Lots of pooping on top, lots and lots of pooping. Just letting the little stinkers poop all over...
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    Chick Leg bands, Confused? Spirals, zips, others, Pros & Cons

    This is the first year my daughter is raising more chicks, so we have divided the hatching tray by breeding pens and are marking the chicks so she knows who is from who. Need leg band ideas for chicks, especially small breed bantams. What do you use for leg bands to mark you chicks. I got...
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    The ladies should thank the cat for gourmet breakfast this morning!

    Our chickens should thank the cat for the groumet breakfast I just fed them! Last night I made chicken tacos, a big batch so hubby would have left overs for lunch to put in the freezer. The cat was caught on top of the stove enjoying the left over chicken. Hubby said no thank you to the...
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    Serama hatching tips needed!

    We would like tips on hatching Serama eggs. My daughter has a pair of seramas, mainly as pets, she wants to hatch out a few chicks. We had 4 serama eggs in our brinsea 190, great hatch for the Dutch eggs but none of the seramas even pipped. They were well developed when We candle at lockdown...
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    Brinsea 190 hatching tray, its gonna be crowded

    [S Getting ready for lockdown tonight, first hatch in our new brine 190. We have 57 bantam eggs, so the incubator rack is just about full. I have eggs marked by breeding pens, 6 groups total. The eggs are upright in the rack and lay down in the hatcher. I'm figuring out how to put the divides in...
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    Marek's Vaccinations in Staggered Hatches?

    We are starting to vaccinate this year and need advice. For thoses who vaccinate for Mareks how do you havdle staggered hatches? We are setting 50 eggs each week in our cabinet incubator. The ideal is to vaccinate just after hatching. Ordering from First State vet supply, the mareks is 1000...
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    Brinsea 190, is the humidity pump always this NOISY?

    Is yours REALLY LOUD? We have our new Brinsea 190 partially loaded with eggs. It has been running and holding temperature great. I have been adding water to the humididty tray via a tube and syringe, works but kind of a pain. Hubby was planning on on building his own version of the Brinsea...
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    Lots of chicks, how much brooder space needed?

    We have been using our Little Giant incubator and homemade wood brooder boxes for years. It has served us well for the 12 to 20 bantam chicks we hatched at a time. Well, Santa this year brought a Brinsea 190 cabinet incubator. This beauty has been running all week and we loaded up one full rack...
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    Brinsea Ecoglow Brooder, happy chicks?

    Looking for feedback on how happy you & your chicks are with the Brinsea Ecoglow brooder. Considering the large ecoglow, on sale and also have a promo discount. would be used only for bantams. Thanks
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    Does the humidity change when eggs are added to incubator?

    Ok, maybe a stupid question but, does the incubator change when the eggs are added to the incubator? Used a LG for many years, just set up a Brinsea 190 cabinet incubator, hoping to set eggs this weekend. Temperature is holding like a rock but trying to get a better handle on the humidity...
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    poopy & scabby butts- what type of mites?

    I know two of our cops have mites. Noticed poop build up on two bantams. Suspicious of mites they came inside to get inspected & cleaned up. Lots of dried poop and crusty scabs on their bottoms. The gross job had to be done, they needed to be washed, shampood and blow dried. Lots of tiny brown...
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