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  1. Benelli

    Worst experience thus far. Copperhead got 5 turkey poults!!!!!!!!!

    We brought 12 turkey poults home that didn't seem like they were going to make it the first night. They had blood in their poo. Got them through that and about a week later lost one and I'm not sure why. Got two more poults from a different breeder and kept them seperated for a few days. First...
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    Gobbler setting on eggs? Has anyone had this experience?

    The hen abandoned the nest and the Narr. tom took over setting on the eggs.
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    Poults in trouble????

    Purchased 12 poults, about three weeks old, last evening. First go around with them. Experienced with peeps and peas. 20 minute noisy car ride, right into brooder. All immediately fell asleep or "fell out". Didn't move for over four hours. When some did start moving they had blood in their...
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    WTB White drake Call duck in GA/Eastern Alabama or eggs

    Neighbor is looking for a mate for her year old white Call duck. She'll also take a duckling or possibly some eggs in the hopes she gets a mate eventually. Let me know. Thanks.
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    Do I need to lay my eggs on their side? Went into lockdown 12 hrs ago.

    Now I'm second guessing myself. I thought it was o.k. to leave them big side up, but I see the photos here of the eggs laying on their sides. Help.
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    Moving flock into a larger coop and have questions.

    I'm in the process of building a bigger coop and run. I want to move my existing flock of 7 to the larger coop and use the smaller one for three, 12 week old pullets. I plan on keeping the coops about 400 feet apart. Is it best to move the existing flock at night into their new coop and keep...
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    What exactly is "lockdown"?

    I've not hatched any eggs of my own yet and keep seeing it on the message board. Tried to seach "what is lockdown" but that didn't work on any of the threads. Is this a crucial time a few days before the chicks hatch and does that mean you need to be there the entire time?
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    Belated Xmas gift--------Trough De-Icers working great

    Neighbors got me these great De-Icers for my 50 gal horse troughs. FarmInnovators.com is the company. They got me the Model C-500. All I had to do was put them on a cinder block in the bottom of the troughs and plugged them in. It was 18 with a windchill of 8 this morning in my area. Two...
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    Any guesses at to what critter is lurking around my chickens?

    I have an old round bale of hay about 50 ft. from my coop and horses. It's in the fringe of my woods. My dog was down there yesterday sniffing around and I didn't give it much thought since I've been pulling the hay down and mixing it with horse and chicken manure to get a compost pile going. I...
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    Does anyone else get a pleasure out of waking up their roosters?

    I know it's a little perverse so to speak, but I enjoy waking him up on the weekdays since he wakes me on the weekends at 5:30.
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    Peahen spending the night with the chickens. Should I remove her?

    I've had my peahens for about five months. They've always roosted in a tree at night. About a week ago, one of the girls decided she was spending the night with the chickens in the coop. I didn't take her out because we'd had about four straight days of rain and figured she'd had enough. Well...
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    Electric fencing doesn't always work.

    Let me start this by saying, I have electric fencing as a deterrent with my horses to keep off my fencing, but never put a lot of faith in it to keep predators out. Here are a few reasons why and one happened yesterday. Four months ago, my neighbors goats were attacked by two dogs that had run...
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    External egg texture. Is this normal?

    Greetings, I have an RIR about 8 months old who lays a very rough textured egg. It almost feels like it got rolled in sand or very gritty sand paper so to speak. When dry, the grit is slightly darker than the egg shell color. When wet, they're a rust or GA clay color, as we would say down here...
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    Help! Into'd roo this morning and not sure it's going well.

    I just introduced a Buff roo to my six happy hens and two peahens. Things didn't go well. He immediately attacked my dominant RIR. I broke them up but not before she drew blood on his beard(?). He went after the peahens too. All I did the first 15 minutes was break up fights. Is this normal...
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    Golden Comets aren't listed on the breed pages......

    Are these a subspecies of something else? I've been thinking about getting a few in the spring. BYC is a wealth of info, but I can't find them listed. Of course, I could just be overlooking them. I've looked a few times thinking I was just missing them. If anyone has some info, good, bad or...
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    Do chickens and cats mix?

    A stray kitten appeared Friday. I tried to ignore it hoping it would go away. I woke up yesterday morning to find it rubbing up against the fence with my baby goat who seems to have taken a liking to her. Then this morning, my 90 lb American bulldog allowed her to go in and out of his legs...
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    Help please. India Blue chick. What's wrong with it's head

    I've got three India Blues about 5 months old with no issues. I recently rec'd three more, about two months old. One died last week and I have no idea why. Now, one of the others seems a little lethargic. It's head feathers are missing until you hit it's little sprouting crest. The area is kind...
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    Looking for RIR's in west central Georgia

    Anybody have any reds or EE/Americuanas for sale around Columbus?
  19. Benelli

    Greetings from GA

    This site is great. Had a question or two after I started raising a few chickens and peafowl. I'm a horse person (5), with six chickens, six peafow, a goofy American bulldog and one baby billy goat.
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    I've got an Easter egg hen laying light peach/pink eggs.

    She's got a black head with mottled pink/aqua ear/eardrums. Has anybody run across this before? The other two hens are a blonde and redhead with aqua ear/eardrums giving me the greenish eggs.
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