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    Help me pick the best Blue Copper Marans Rooster!

    Hi all, We have 4 blue copper marans cockerels and can only keep one. We have two with feathered legs, two without. Two have copper on their chests as well as necks. We will be breeding them and want to keep the best looking guy, but want to make sure we aren't overlooking anything. These...
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    Turkey Poults with bad legs - graphic pics

    We have a batch of heritage turkeys right now that are about 5-6 weeks old and have been raised in a brooder with chicks and guinea fowl and are now free ranging during the day. We noticed that two of the bourbon reds began showing deformity of the legs ~2wks ago and we culled them today as...
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    Is this a chick death-trap?

    I have 15 2-3 wk old chicks who will not stay contained in their indoor brooder. They keep flying out and getting stuck away from their food/water/heat, I've already blocked the top but they fly out anyways, so I moved them into my small outdoor coop with their Ecoglow heater. It has an...
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    Mystery Chick from the Chicken Swap

    I picked up this cute little guy from the chicken swap today, it was in a mixed bin but the guy said they were all purebreds of different types. He said this is an Ameraucana or "some type of blue egg layer" but it has a regular comb, not a pea comb. Its has yellowish grey fluff and grey and...
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    New Livestock Guardian Pups!!

    Meet Toby and Oliver, my new LGDs! They're Colorado Mountain Dogs and are 4wks and 4months old. They're staying with mom for another few months but I can't wait to work with them!!
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    Rooster "crowing" with no-crow collar - video

    Here is my 6 month old RIR rooster Pablo giving it his all while wearing a rooster collar. We made ours out of 2" velcro and its been working great, we have it tightened to where we can get a pinky under it and we check it nightly when he goes to roost. He is now much quieter than our hens...
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    Molting hen in 7 degree weather

    We have two molting hens, one who is almost grown-in and an EE that is missing about 30% of her feathers and they're just beginning to grow in as pin feathers, so pretty much has naked shoulders and parts of neck and back. Tonight and tomorrow we are expecting lows of 7 and highs of 17 degrees...
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    Red Ranger, Heritage RIR, or mystery birds?

    We got hatching eggs from a breeder that were supposed to be Red Ranger broilers but we are wondering if they were switched and we got something else. We hatched out two and they're about 10 wks old now. They look like layers, they're small, dainty birds, with no muscle and with beautiful dark...
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    Hen laying soft eggs - should we cull?

    We have 5 layers of various breeds that are about 2.5 years old. Our best layer, Penny, a red star, has been laying increasingly bad eggs in terms of shell quality for the past 6 months. She continues to lay a large brown egg every day but over the past 3 months the shells are so thin and...
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    How I got rid of mites NATURALLY!

    We had never had mites before and I was looking for a healthy way to rid my poor broody and chicks and keep them from spreading to the rest of my flock. All my birds are organic, free-range layers and broilers so we really didn't want to use anything toxic on them. And I did it! We...
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    Pebbles the Wyandotte...not a roo right?

    Here is my 6-7 wk old gold laced wyandotte Pebbles... Im hoping she is a she but the comb and waddles have gotten bigger in the last week and her feet also look bigger....
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    Freedom Vs. Red Rangers... an observation

    I know they're a little different but I have 2 red rangers that were hatched by a broody 4 wks ago and 6 freedom rangers that were bought locally and raised in a brooder and are 3 wks old and are totally different birds. Just wanted to post how giant and cornish-like the freedom rangers...
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    Teeny Tiny Wyandotte Peep

    I have this tiny little sliver laced wyandotte chick who is 2 wks old today. Shes living with 6 freedom rangers, 2 days younger but 3x her size, and a black australorp who is about her age and larger, almost double her size. Is it normal for her to be so little? The rest of the chicks have...
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    Cool egg autopsy pics

    I had a broody hatch 3 red ranger chicks today, the other 4 eggs died, looks like around day 19. Just sharing some interesting pics of the babies.
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    Gross bugs on my broody and chicks - Picture

    I have a broody that just hatched 3 chicks today and is still sitting on 4 eggs. We have never had parasites on any of our flock before and when we checked her this am we saw this on her nest box. Im going to clean out all bedding and thoroughly clean the main coop and her tractor but how...
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