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    moving

    so the time has come for me to move back to my old stompin grounds to a farm that i have owned but left vacant for the last few years. my plan is to drive on friday. i have a 12' cube van that will only be about half to two thirds full of tools then my plan is to put up a partition and make a...
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    missing toe nails

    so i have gone to the coop to find a bit of blood about a few times over the last months. the first time i found a hen with blood all over her head but no visible sign of injury. yesterday though i finally noticed where it had come from. 2 of my cockerels are missing toenails do any of you...
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    consequences of feeding whole corn

    howdy so after the corn feilds that i rent out were combined this fall i managed to glean about 500lbs of whole corn both on the cob and kernels from over filling the trailers. and i had been feeding it to the birds as a treat but then over the holidays the person who was feeding my birds ended...
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    dog attack emergency help please!!

    howdy i just had one of my 7 week old barred rock pullets attacked by my puppy (wind blew barn door open while i was out) here are some pics i know they arent the greatest shots but i hope you can see that there are 2 areas where the skin has come off mainlyon the right side of her skull and...
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    dressed weight vs. live weight

    just wondering what the average waste is on cornish x's. meaning the difference between live weight and dressed weight. thanks
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    help with stray kitten health problems

    so last yesterday i got steve a stray i picked up on the rez down the road from my farm. he was runnin with a herd of semi feral kittens on the beach actually the same beach my puppy came from in the spring. so after letting him get acclimatized a abit i gave him a good going over this...
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    on aruacanas

    first off i will post pics after work but wanted to get this posted first. i have just bought 6 "aruacana" chicks i was told they all were hatched from blue eggs and that their father was an aruacana as well my question is this only one of them seems to be rumpless is this right i know that...
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    impacted crop

    hey guys so i am pretty sure that my new hen "blue" has an impacted crop and probably has had since i first got her. she has always had what i thought was a prominent breast but tonight (being the first time i was able to give her a thorough going over i found her crop to be what was prominent...
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    two new chickens and an egg

    so today i finally got a cpl of laying age hens that i have been owed for a month or so. i think they are black sex link they had a barred rock mom x with a RIR roo. is this correct? well i wasnt expecting them so i had to throw them n the regular coop which was empty being afternoon and my...
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    the roo who woulnt be

    so i got a pair of bantam brown leghorns about 8 days ago and they are great. they are a cute little couple and i am enoying their addition to my flock. what i am wondering is that the little roo "buck owens" has taken to following me around with the dogs everywhere i go he would come right...
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    am i a roo too

    i am starting to think so more and more he\\she isnt making and crowing attempts but it loos like it is starting to get some neck \\ cape feathers coming in lets hear what do you guys think?
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    ear blisters

    howdy i have recently aquired 2 new birds. they are a pair of last years bantam brown leghorns. i noticed on the first day that the roo had a blister like thing on his ear. being new to chooks i didnt think to much of it but have kept my eye on it none the less (he also seems to be sneezing...
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    bantam leghorn laying (or not)

    howdy folks i have just added a pair of bantam leghorns to my flock of free rangers. and i am wondering when my hen should be laying. they are last years birds and she was laying the day i picked her up. i think i read here somewhere that she might take a a cpl days to start laying after a...
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    my little roo?

    so this a mutt im told polish RIR but i have my doubts "she" was given to me as a hen but in the last cpl days i have heard so pretty strange attempts at crowing just wondering what yall think thanks
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    my coop pis (almost done!)

    well there it is now i just need to add siding and trim and a touch o paint magnolia my daughter says blue so blue it is!
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    just when i thought i was safe

    so hes done it again jack the puppy snuck out last night while i was working the shop and killed my last white leghorn ahhhhhh!!! !@#$ $#%^ !@*% #$%^ i know i know i havent been leaving him alone with birds or anything the little bugger just snuck out when i thought he was asleep as i was...
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    harvesting dual purpose birds (RIR)

    i have no a flock of 16 pullet at 11weeks 11 of whom are RIR or production reds i plan on maybe 6 for the freezer and keeping the rest through the winter and on what i am wondering is they are al now truly free ranginging on my 50 acre farm (well really just on about an acre of it but they could...
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    grocery store bought fertile eggs?

    howdy i have been on the hunt for some fertile eggs here in oantario with no luck but have just read the thread about trader joes fertile eggs whats up with this are the packages labeled fertile etc. i have never even thought i could hatch eggs from grocery store pls help me out here
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    looking for hatching eggs in ontario

    howdy folks me again i need to find some hatching eggs in ontario or that can be shipped to me here it i a reall hassle to get acros the border for me these days i am outside of london ontario anyone, anyone
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    nest boxes

    good afternoon i seemed to have spent the afternoon working on my chicken coop (alright but i should have been working for money) my quetion is i finished the nest box section of the coop today and as it is now it is a 12' section coming off the back of main section of coop (ill post pics...
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