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    freedom rangers

    After much hype and hullabaloo over these meat birds, I decided to give them a try this year. I ordered around 75 of them. 25 were my parents 10 were a freinds and the rest were for my family. I had heard and read that yes they were slower growing, didnt eat as much, foraged well, and didnt have...
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    Question regarding hen size?

    I have 2 pens with blue orpingtons. My blue roo does quite well with his hens, but the other roo, which is a big black roo, and I do mean BIG, he looks more along the lines of a Jersey Giant than an orp, he is very good with the girls, but hurts them when he mounts. I have saddles on all his...
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    BBS Orpington Fertile Eggs *pic heavy*

    I have 1 dozen blue/black/splash orpington eggs. I gather fresh throughout the day. I have had excellent fertility so far. I have hatched 2 batches so far, and have had 100% hatch rate. I ship USPS with priority and calculate shipping based on where you live. So at end of auction you need to...
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    Some cute pics of my daughter and her flock

    I grabbed the camera today and started snapping pictures, my mom says my daughter is like the pied piper with chickens and ducks! They heard her step out the door, and rustle her bag of treats, then they all came stampedeing, following her over to the coops. It was quite commical to watch.
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    Pictures of my Blue Orpingtons and the rest of my flock

    Just thought I'd share a few pictures of my growing flock. Back in April I purchased blue orpington eggs from a BYC'er. (MissPrissy). My orps are now around 2 months old and filling out nicely I must say. Out of the whole cluch I got quite a variety of black, blue and splash. I currently have 2...
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    My new expansion coops

    Here is one of the 2 new coops my husband is building me for my new blue orps I got this spring. They are getting big fast, so I needed to get up a few new coops for them. And a few pictures of the location they will be sitting at for the run. I have been working on the whole garden/coop...
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    BBS orpington chicks

    Obviously it is easy to tell which ones are black, but I have seen pictures of the splash and the blue, and I really cant tell the difference. Then again, maybe it was the pics, not sure. can anyone tell the difference in the color of blue chick, versus a splash chick? Maybe more pics would help...
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    Mixed breed fertile eggs

    Up for sale is confirmed fertile mix breed eggs. All are from my backyard flock. I have hatched many chicks so far from my birds. The father is a leghorn breed, and my hens are red sex links, and 2 easter eggers. Below is just a few pics of my flock, and the chicks I have hatched recently. I...
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    just insatlled homade fan onto incubator

    I have a hovabator still air incubator, and was wondering since the holes that were in top before i put the fan on are covered by the fan, should i put a few more holes in the top of the bator for excess heat to escape? Not sure, had the fan running in it for 20 minutes and it was up to 110...
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    new documents boost egg-price fixing lawsuit

    found this in the news and thought it was of interest......and yet another reason i am so thank full for my flock of layers. By TRACIE CONE, Associated Press Writer Tracie Cone, Associated Press Writer – 31 mins ago FRESNO, Calif. – A lawsuit alleging the U.S. egg industry conspired to...
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    what would you recoomend feeding roos for butchering?

    I have chicks that i hatched this early spring, and I have quite a few roos, just wondering what you would reccomend feeding them to fatten them up for butchering in the fall. They are just plain ole backyard flock mix, no broilers or anything, but i would like to have a few in the freezer. I...
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    incubation question

    Do you count 21 days, the DAY you put your eggs into the incubator? Just wondering because so far my eggs, all gathered fresh the day they were laid, and a day later they all were put into the incubator at the same time, and all of them hatched at different days, the last one being a week from...
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    pickled eggs

    Ok, It's more of a question rather than a recipe...LOL I , along with my mom, have been making pickled eggs. The only problem is, (and I don't know if anyone else has this problem) When you hard boil farm fresh eggs, they are the darndest to peel! Half of the whites come off with the shell...
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    Some Pictures of our flock

    My daughter and her flock of chickens and her Cat Tigger Tigger our 15 yr old kitty, and he still is a great mouser! "Gurdy" My daughter's favorite hen, oneof the 5 red star sex links. "Winston" Not sure what he is mixed with? "Puff" a.k.a Powder puff, but since he has...
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    hen is listless?

    I have no idea why my hen all of a sudden is listless today. She was fine the night before, and today she hasnt been free ranging with the other hens and roosters. she stays in the run and sits in the corner and closes her eyes, when she walks around she isnt her perky self, very slow movments...
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    Hen pecked!

    I just bought 2 young roosters from a neighbor. They are fairly young, the one still kinda makes chick peeping sounds but is fully feathered. Anyways. My hens picked at the brown one for a while, till he held his ground, but they constantly still pick at my white rooster. The poor thing shoves...
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