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    Meyer adopt me bargain bin chicks/poults

    We are wanting just something random and some broad breasted turkeys after our hatches next spring/summer and we are looking at this. Do you know the minimum number to ship? The cost of shipping? I can get between 5-15, and has anyone gotten this bargain, was it worth it? Did you get turkeys? Do...
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    Help! Swollen foot!

    help lettuce's foot is swollen!! What do I do!?
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    Mixed dual purpose breed

    How old would you say English orp/ Sussex cross cockerels should be at butcher? For a decent size bird? Last year we did red broilers and I don't know it there will be a big difference?
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    Keep them smelling fresh

    So I have a large hen house with 28 hens and inside that a smaller pen with a rooster and trio of small hens and then across the yard a coop that holds at the moment 7 hens and a rooster comfortably and both coop and henhouse have large walk in pens on them. Then I have a chicken tractor that at...
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    Dark shell question

    Hi, my Dominique in my breeding pen and my barnevelder and my olive egger... The shells on their eggs are so dark. I want to know if they're fertile and the Dom eggs are in the bator. I know eggs are fertile from my other rooster but I'm selling him and hoping that the other guys are doing their...
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    Silver penciled rock?

    Any one know where someone could buy quality shipped pullets, ideally not a million, like 6-12? I'm not sure where to look...
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    Where to get a good speckled Sussex cockerel

    I am looking for some really nice cockerels, we are shifting our breed focus just a bit and would like to have this guys for the winter and spring next year so we can hatch out some babies and we are rehoming some of our guys this year so we will need a new rooster! I would like even just some...
  8. BusyBearMama

    Silkie colors/genders

    Last year we hatched one female blue silkie but she died :( So this year the kids asked for silkies and I figured well I would look around and I was going to see who had some- last year it was just about everyone had them but no one within 3 hours this year :( So I gave in and did the thing I...
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    A few issues...

    Well I've recently (months ago) had emergency surgery myself... Which left my birds in the care of my husband. This is all well & good ... For the most part. The issues are these 1. We had some frostbite that wasn't immediately treated and so we are missing comb points on roosters... Do they...
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    Which color to use?!

    Ok so I have a blue eng. orp. Rooster who is a sweet and nice looking guy who's getting his breeding pen, he's going over a splash of his breed and I was thinking of hatching out some of their eggs for pullets for us & any cockerels have homes lining up, there aren't lots of these big guys...
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    What would these look like? Any photos ?

    If I put a blue English orp over a light brahma? And if I put a silver penciled rock over speckled sussex? I would over pictures. I know the rock has patterned genes and the sussex has the speckling... The orp can that yeild black chicks depending on who he is crossed with? I really don't...
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    Fun spring mix and pure hatches - looking for photos and advice!

    What are your favorite mixes? Like just for fun what would you mix?
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    Silver penciled rock x speckled sussex ?

    I have a young silver penciled rock cockerel and I just can't have more roosters here than I have now but I don't have any pullets for him specifically which is a bummer on one hand but on the other I'm thinking of putting him with my other plymouth rocks for fun and hatching a few and I was...
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    Where to get meat birds now... hatchery? Help

    I'm looking for 30 meat birds, I've never done this before and we wanted to do it before it snows roughly in nys so we were thinking 15 Cornish rocks and 15 red broilers and have 2 dispatchings... I am having trouble finding someone with stock now though :-/ hoping for all roosters. Any pointing...
  15. BusyBearMama

    Planning for ducks- lots of questions

    We are planning to get ducks next spring. We will get 3-6 ducklings. The goal is all female. We are currently starting on putting in a pond with natural flowing ground water through this culvert. It will be near our garden and our guinea coop. They will have a pen and a duck house. What do ducks...
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    Update on my 'pullets' - thoughts?

    They're 16 weeks now This bird is a pullet for sure I think this one is... The combs look similar and I'm a big oh the comb looks similar person... That said ... You look at the legs and tail & coloring yourself, I haven't kept barred rocks before so? But when I look at them side by side...
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    Dominique 6 weeks gender?

    [/IMG] Sorry had to hold the bird for the picture so I didn't get any standing photos
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    7 dead- help!!

    Ok so I had 8 6 week old chicks and I put 6 of them in a pen inside the hen house with 14 hens & pullets- they had clean food & water & grit & a heater. The other two were in a pen up in our indoor porch thing because we were considering selling them- they were all doing fine and they got their...
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    Any ideas?

    Flower Uno Flower and Uno are almost 3 weeks old. Flower hatched out of a not too big cream egg and Uno out of a big pointy tan egg with speckles. I thought Uno was probably either a Welsummer or an orloff maybe? Some people thought Easter egger but I've never seen an we lay a spotted egg...
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    Stuffed crop? Help

    Some of my hens over enjoyed the melon they got today and their crops look like they're just all full and they are panting a bit and hanging out with the grit... Are they ok?! Err this has never happened before. They're usually sharing just a few scraps and seem done but melons are pretty big so...
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