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    Its been a while...

    I haven't been on BYC in a long time and curiosity got the best of me tonight. Well, things certainly look different since my last visit. When I get a chance, I'll visit all the old places I normally frequented on the forum and maybe I'll see some of the oldies, as well as find a few new...
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    sick eyes on chicks

    We apparently have an epidemic in town, because a family came over a few days ago asking how to save their chicks.......some were bought from me, others elsewhere (right). Well the affected chick will stand still, with feathers puffed out while the healthy chicks runs all over the place, so...
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    pullet is plucking feathers off of others

    I have 4 breeds of chickens brooding together. Cockoo Marans, BR, White Rocks and Light Bramahas. One of the White Rocks are wandering about stall, plucking feathers off of the other chickens. I keep waiting for one of them to peck back. Several times I have taken her away. What to do? I...
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    breeding for sex-linking

    I am attempting to produce future sex-links, so I can know what is my meat and what I can sell as pullets from the start. I've done it before, but only with the RIR/BR mix. After reading a chapter in 'Sexing of all Fowl', I decided to try a few other crosses to get possibly larger birds...
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    Siminar proposed to address caponization and other chicken care issues

    I have a contact that can possibly supply the right vet to teach caponization if enough people are interested. Please respond here or PM me with your interest. Thanks.
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    lets all vent

    Yesterday I was suffering from flight of ideas and I honestly thought of all you guys while I was juggling my poultry around. I made some changes that I felt were necessary: First, allow me to back-track and say that I have been losing a few guineas here and there. I don't know if they are...
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    lockdown regarding different species

    anyone knows lockdown days for chicken, duck, goose, guinea, turkey.....etc eggs?
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    filthy broilers

    Since getting back into chickens about a year and half ago, I incubated my own eggs 3 times and sold the pullets and raised the roos for meat in my kids playhouse. Afterwards, we would clean out the house for the girls to play again, etc. Well I bought chickens from school for the broiler...
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    Someone vandelized my beehive

    Well I have 4 beehives in my yard and I have tried and failed 3 times to keep bees in my father's orchard. I got to believe that something fishy was going on. So over the summer, I was hired to remove a swarm from someone's wall and I put the kidnapped bees in a hive body in the orchard, but...
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    cage waterers w/ 2 liter bottles

    I searched for these and finally found a very economical cage waterer that secures to the outside of a cage, like you use for rabbits, but with a small dish that gets filled. Well I ordered 2 packs of 12 (24) and started getting cokes while I waited. Results: you have to be patient and work...
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    going to raise some 4H broilers

    my neice is public schooled and I will get her to obtain some broilers for me to fill my freezer. They will cost me 12.00 for 25 chicks. I think I will use 4 or 5 sacks of feed in the 6 weeks before its time to show them. We won't show them because its not run fairly and the winners of the...
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    alleged coon

    There is a rumor of a really huge coon in the general area. I am told it is bigger than my late dog, Spot, who was a 26 LB overweight rat terrior. I don't know if I believe that, but its time to find out. I have a Coop Knox, but there is such a thing as being 10 minutes too late to lock up...
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    are you white egg layer people happy (Sept '10)

    My reds are on strike. I am hoping its almost over and soon they will bombard me with eggs, but I'm wondering if I should have gotten a few leghorns or minorcas to insure a steady egg flow. I had to take my sign down, because its all I can do to have eggs for myself. This is a fairly new...
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    why I come out ahead

    Okay....I make money. My chickens pay their own way and they are also supporting my other birds that haven't begun paying for themselves. I am willing to tell all my reasons. How about you. Will you tell your reasons for coming out ahead.....or tell us why you not coming out ahead (so long...
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    sexed link question

    I have to frequently convince myself not to try anything new, because of having enough already, but when I think about chickens, I often remember doing sexed-linked projects in the past. What I didn't realize was that I could have used another red cockeral, including a BO. I am thinking on...
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    my/your opinion of soybean as food

    over the years I have been cautioned by others not to over-do it on the soybean, due to the risks involved in giving too much protein to my birds. Thats fine, because they seem like they go for all the other grains first and save the beans for last. I figured it taste bad for them. I would...
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    my girls are almost naked

    I wish I could think of something to make my hens look a little better. If I killed one of them, in particular, I could probably have her completely plucked in 2 minutes, by hand. Its really pitiful. They were so pretty a few months ago. Anyone in the same boat as me? Maybe I can blame BP...
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    I shuffled my chickens around to different places

    Well my RIR hens have seen much better days. I'm not going to blame the roos entirely, but it would appear that their favorite girls were pretty much naked. Do ya'll think just molting would make a hen really ugly, alone or the roo? So I went a bit nuts. Yesterday I killed my 5 remaining...
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    keets are in. I'm not doing so well

    Well yesterday our keets came in at the postoffice. They got put in a box in the house, but it was too small a box and the light was too strong, so I put them in the brooder with 2 lightbulbs. I figured that if the light was too strong, they would have more room to get away from it. Well...
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    where do ya'll get wheels for your chicken tractors?

    I have 3, going on 4 chicken tractors. Half of them are relatively light weight, but it is still hard to move around if you are alone. The other two are going to give you a workout if you move, plus I question if it is going to pull the thing apart by moving it too much. I need them to be...
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