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    When to Return a Bird Outdoors in Winter after Injury/Sickness

    Hey folks! I've had chickens for 10 years and one thing I always have a hard time with is knowing if it's safe to return a bird outside in cold weather after being injured or falling ill and was nursed back to good health. Normally if a bird gets injured in the Winter, I bring them indoors so...
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    Bantam Chick Hatching Issues

    This egg has been hatching since around 4pm yesterday (5/12/19,) possibly longer. It's being hatched by a broody hen. I've done a few hatches and never seen the chicks damage this much of the shell during hatching, and I see small amounts of blood on the membrane. I had another chick from this...
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    Crossing Millie Fluer and Porcelain d'Uccles

    Anyone have good resources available on what to expect when crossing different breeds of d'Uccles? Right now I've got a Millie Fluer/Porcelain cross being hatched and wanted to read more on the genetics of the breed.
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    Permethrine Resistant Pests

    I've been looking into the use of Permethrine and have seen that pests can become resistant to Permethrine if used over a long period of time. What should you do to alternate treatments to prevent pests from becoming resistant to Permethrine? I've dusted my coop with DE before in the past and it...
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    Regrowing a Large Area of Grass with a Flock.

    I've got about 150 yards of land fenced off for my birds that they free range in. I want to go about the best way I can to try and regrow as much much of the grass as I can. Do you guys recommend putting down new sod, or putting down a large amount of seed under hay? Does anyone here have...
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    Turkey Cut his Foot

    It's a bad cut, but not life threatening. Any ideas for the best way to tackle this?
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    Rabbits & Quail

    Hey folks! Just a quick question that I hadn't seen covered before in the searches of the forums but does anyone have experience with keeping Quail and Rabbits together? I have a large concrete barn with dirt floors that we keep our meat rabbits in so they are out of the draft for winter. Would...
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    Getting my First Meat Birds

    I have a few questions! I feed my flock of 35 layers, 5 Roosters and 10 Ducks a fermented no-soy 16% layer pellet. I plan on adding 50 standard breed roosters to the flock for meat birds that will be slaughtered at 18 weeks. How do you guys deal with a flock of mixed layers and meat birds...
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    Moving Pullets Outside

    I have two 4 month old pullets inside that got injured during Winter and I decided to keep them inside until the temperatures started to go back up. They were about 2-3 months old when I brought them inside to heal them up. While inside they've been in a room kept around 60-70 degrees. Do you...
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    Mycoplasma Questions

    Hey BYC! So I've got some questions and thoughts about Mycoplasma that I want your opinions on, very greatly! My flock is infected with MG because I bought birds on Craigslist that didn't show signs of illness and I didn't quarantine like I should have. That's okay with me, I'm 100% fine with...
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    D'uccle Mixes.

    I'm thinking about crossing my Mille Fleur D'uccle Roo with my Black Mottled D'uccle Hen. Does anyone have any pictures of what the combined color results could be?
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    Fermenting Feed for Large Flock

    Any ideas or setups suggested for fermenting feed for a flock of 100+ birds? Right now my flock is at around 20 and I'm using a 5 gallon bucket, I'm noticing that that will not be enough as I expand. Would you be able to do it in say a trash can and then put it on tap so that it would fall...
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    Some of my Flock Keeps going back to their Old Coop.

    I built a new coop for the flock but a few of them keep wanting to go back to the old coop. I kept them in the new coop for a week before letting them out and they went back. Then I kept them in there for 5 more days and let them out and they went right back to the old coop, haha. Any...
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    New Guy on the Flock

    Hey everyone! Dropping in to say howdy! I've been a chicken owner for about 2 years now after I moved out to the North Carolina Mountains. I have a trio of Millie Fluer, A Black Cochin, A Silver Laced Cochin pair, Two White Leghorn Hens, A Blue Splash Polish Rooster and two barnyard mixes. In...
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