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  1. babyblue

    My horse got himself cast last night

    Dh brought the old horse in last night, was rainy so first thing old horse does is lie down and roll in the fresh shavings. Dh was still in the stall going to dump the water bucket so old horse lies down farther away from Dh instead of the middle as usual. Stall is 12x14 so not tiny. Lies down...
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    Need to find a boarding stable (Update)

    Dh is getting a job in the Selinsgrove PA area. We have been looking for houses to keep the horse at home with us, but everything we look at in a reasonable price range has turned out to be awful IRL. So far finding a reasonably priced boarding barn as a back up is also terrible. I have found so...
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    Need a home for a pet sheep- FREE

    I am actually posting this for my sister. Our mother, who babysits for my sister brought home a 2.5 pound lamb for my niece to bottle feed (without asking my sister first) My sister lives in an appt and shouldn't have had a lamb to begin with but is now also moving to a new appt and can not...
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    Very poor hatch, could use advice

    Started out with a still air little giant, temp 99.5 humidity we though was around 35-40 from day 1-18. Then tried raising it and the highest we could get to was 40. Now I am pretty darn sure the hydrometer is very drastically off. Anyways one chick hatched on day 19, one pipped at 19 and...
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    First time incubating

    Decided to make an attempt at hatching our bbs orp's eggs. There are some blue/buff orp eggs in there as well. I set 36 eggs (we have a lot of eggs lol) candled at day 7 and wasn't sure about some but let them go. Candled again tonight at day 14, 11 obvious not fertile/never got past day 1 or 2...
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    Senior feed for horses

    I think its time I switched the old man to a senior feed. He is maintaining his weight decently though needs some serious exercise from this horrible cooped up winter. But he is 21 and I have started to notice more and more undigested grain in the manure when I pick the stall. I think it may be...
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    Horse slightly lame ?s

    Ok to start out, I have already called the farrier and he should be out sometime this after noon. My 21yo QH gelding is ever so slightly lame in the left front, however the hoof itself is a few degrees warmer then the left and back two. Nothing looks or feels wrong with the legs or other...
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    BBS Orpington pullets

    Six Oprington pullets, just started laying. Three blue, two splash, one black. Hatched from show quality parents. One blue Orpington rooster for free with his girls, very sweet and not aggressive at all. price $20.00 per pullet. Pics are from 2 months ago, so they have filled out and fluffed...
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    Cute thing my roo did

    I have 1 blue orp roo I named Ben and his girls. It has been pouring down rain lately but the chickens still like going out side. well the coop door popped shut in the nasty wind and the chickens couldn't get back in. I went out to open the door and find Ben at the coop waiting for me, a hen...
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    Chickens and coop for sale questions

    not quite sure where to ask this question, so I stuck it here. dh and I may be moving to a home in town where keeping the chickens is not in any way possible. so I have a 4x8 (I think) coop with pop out nest boxes and a nice window and vents. a small broody coop. and then the chickens. theres 5...
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    Very badly injured hen - no help

    one of the hens got sneeky and tried to sleep in the barn instead of the coop. something got her and ripped her up pretty bad. there is a huge open gash that comes pretty close to loping off her whole tail. dh found her out hiding in the snow last night. big problem is she is extremely active...
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    Honest critique of my BBS ORPS

    my main goal was i like blue and wanted something for my niece/kids to show in 4h eventually. honest opinions please, even if its not a nice one lol. the hens I think are nicer then the roo. he seems to have some tanish gold color leaking into the hackle feathers. the black hen is my least fav...
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    Injured feral cat, what to do with him.

    I know it’s a him because in passing I’ve seen him spray bushes. He is not mine, never before have I gotten within 30 feet of him. I do not feed him, I feed my fixed vac’ed female barn cat, but only enough for her then I stand there and watch her eat it. He hangs around because we live on a farm...
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    I cant break this broody

    just about one year old BO hen. one of six BO's in a large coop and run. shes been hard broody for more then a week now. tried taking her out of the nest up to 10 times a day and putting her out in the run, no good. take away all eggs as soon as they are laid, no good. tried locking everyone out...
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    Ugh I wish dh would be more careful

    Last night dh comes in complaining the horse was acting like a big pathetic baby. Snorting loud and sniffing and stomping his feet hard and pretty violently (not at dh, I or a human ever) but like he was trying to scare something else away from himself and dh. Dh could not possible entertain the...
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    cost of chicks vrs started birds

    so I have been looking for some BBS orps for ages... finally found someone local that is hatching eggs out of some quality parents. discussing price and sex and I had mentioned that ideally I wanted around 6 hens and 1 rooster. she said that holding the babies till she was sure of sex would be...
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    question about wormer

    dh used wazine wormer on the chickens as a preventative before they really got started laying this year. the 2 week wait is nearly over but then I was reading about how eggs shouldnt be incubated for at least 30 days because it can cause horriable deformitys in the chicks. well I am going on 5...
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    I just traded eggs for...

    a farrier visit for my horse, I win. the poor old guy had a blood blister that needed cut out, he now feels great and is actig like a dork. the farrier said it cost so little that he would just add it to my bill next full visit, I jokeingly said Ill trade you eggs. and wow he jumped on the...
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    what breed might this hen and rooster be?

    I was given these little guys as peeps and told they where EE's. the rooster was a lighter colored chipmunk and the hen a dark colored chipmunk. however all grown up they have, to my eye, no EE traits at all. are they just very muttly chickens or a cross of something specific? the first is the...
  20. babyblue

    First eggs, have meat spots

    just one of our bo hens has started laying, one egg two days ago and one egg today. both eggs had one or two visiable meat spots. will she always lay eggs with these spots or is there a chance they will go away as she matures into her egg laying?
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