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    Home Grown Chicks Question

    We have always bought Buff Orps chicks through a poultry supplier before so we've always raised 25 chicks at a time. We recently bought an incubator and have started hatching our own as we are now looking at just replacement chicks to keep the flock at a particular quantity. Yeah, we are doing...
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    Buff Orp hen limping

    Yesterday I noticed one of my hens (she is about 7 months old) is limping/hopping and not really using her left leg to walk. Her tail is down and she just sits unless I walk over to her and then she'll do the limp/hop shuffle to move away. Easy to catch as I can walk faster than she can...
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    Good Basic Geese Book

    Thinking about getting some Emden geese this spring and rather than get the geese and then find out how to raise the darlings I thought it would be good to read basic geese care first. Any of you goose owners care to recommend a good basic book or two? We already have chickens, 31 Buff Orp...
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    Slipping chicks to a hen with a peep

    I'm not talking about slipping fertile eggs under a broody. My broody hen successfully hatched one egg on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Since then she and the peep have been in a chicken wire run (4' x 10') inside the chicken yard so the peep is protected from the older hens (who don't seem real...
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    When will a hen go broody?

    I have 5 Buff Oph hens and one rooster. They are all the same age, one year old April 6. One has gone broody for the second time while the other four have not gone broody at all. Is there some way to make a hen go broody or will she go broody when the time is right? Could the four never go...
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    Roosters and Hens

    I'm sorry if this has been asked a zillion times before, but... how long does a rooster need to be with the hens in order to have fertile eggs? I have five Buff Op ladies who are pining for their hansome gent who was banished to Goatie Oatie Acres (across the fence) for behavior unbecoming a...
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    Very Scrawny Chicken

    We are new to chickens and got our birds this April. The salesman said to feed them chick starter for the first bag and then they would be old enough to eat scratch. The birds are "reds". We bought 7, and ended up with 3 roosters and 4 hens. They seem very active. We butchered one of the...
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