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  1. Rin

    What happens if you breed silver lace Polish to gold lace, buff lace to gold lace, or silver lace t

    I'm expecting to receive Straight Run Polish in 3 colour variants; Silver Lace, Gold Lace, and Buff Lace What happens if I bred these combos? Silver X Gold = Silver X Buff = Gold X Buff = I'm hoping to accomplish chicks of all 3 colour variants with the fewest amount of roosters/breeding...
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    LGD Wants Inside the home Constantly

    I have a Maremma who is only about 10 weeks old now. I brought him home at 8 weeks and after a week of keeping him in the barn with the chickens, he is now allowed out during the day but is kept in there during the night. He can still see his flock through the hardware cloth at all times but...
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    Help with plywood walls

    I'm building an 8x8 chicken coop and I'm not sure what I can do about the gaps between the 4x8 plywood boards I am using as my exterior walls before painting everything. I know plywood needs to be able to expand but this just looks horrendous. Is there some sort of tape or caulk for this...
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    Egg laid WAY too early?

    Last night I went to lock in my flock of 3 month old Easter eggers and discovered a shell-less/softshell double yolker had been laid on the ground where it had burst open(everything looked proper and "normal" inside like a hen that had been laying for weeks). Now that it's morning I took a...
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    Safe to build a run under my AC?

    I live in a mobile home and I have a raised AC unit on a large wooden frame. When I ranged my chickens they LOVED roosting under the AC unit as the sounds deterred wildlife from approaching but now I want to better enclose them since we've been having stray dog issues which cost me about 10...
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    Catching Free Range Birds for Slaughter?

    I have a free range flock of about 9 Australorp roosters about ready for slaughter. Only problem is they're a lot faster and agile than I was expecting them to be and somewhere along the line they decided they didn't like the coop as much as other places. I've tried setting a trap with cracked...
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    There's no way these are all RIR Pullets

    At the local feed store here they had sexed RIR Hens from Ideal and some seemed differently coloured/patterned but they assured me these were all RIR pullets. I shop there all the time and they are a family business - plus they correct any inaccuracies when genders are wrong as well anyway. I...
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    How to cook banties?

    I'm having two Mille fleur banty hens put down sometime this week. One of them seems to be showing severe laying issues - not fully developed eggs as well as eggs in eggs and possible organ failure with white frothy poops and since theres only two possible culprits I decided I'd rather put them...
  9. Rin

    Skin VS Skinless

    Tried searching google about this and came up with nada; Is there a special reason so many people pluck their chickens versus skinning them? I just got my cornish cross chicks today (as well as a ton of barred rock fillers) and was wondering about possibly frying a few. Without skin on. I love...
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    Edit: Genetic Wry neck?

    Debating on what to do with a chick with a broken wing. They're tough as hell or I'd cull them outright. There might be internal damage too. They got caught in one of the holes of the chick feeder and got trampled by the other chicks. I bandaged up their wing but they are unable to keep...
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    Weird-coloured egg... safe to incubate?

    My d'Uccles all lay a nice peach-coloured egg but suddenly one laid one speckled with white and today /completely/ white. What causes this? Would it be safe to incubate anyway? Speckly Today The peachy parts of the first egg are what colour the eggs /normally/ are and then they went...
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    Help! Second collapsed now! Red blotches! Kills FAST!

    EDIT: Okay somethings up, a second one went down and they have odd red spots on their face. What am I looking at here? WENT FROM able to eat and walk and drink to DEAD in under two hours! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON. Somebody help! Two died now with same sort of symptoms! D: ANYONE? before I lose...
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    Chicken Documentary!

    Not sure where to post this but they had a nice documentary on chickens on the BBC. But for those of us who live in the states... youtube Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V29O2Ptynvk Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz4b0ZN-mj0 Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYC394wrC6w...
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    Roo doing the Egg song?

    Is there any particular reason why my rooster would be singing the egg song instead of my hens? One of my D'uccle hens is starting to lay and I can hear the egg song loud and clear from inside my house and rush out there to find it's him making the racket. He'll even go inside and sit in one of...
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    Hoping Fourth Try is the charm..

    THREE failed hatches now(all starting with a dozen eggs) and preparing to set 15 eggs tonight... all batches were shipped and the first attempt was the closest I ever came(three pipped but then died there - one with its beak resting against the shell even - the other three to get that far had...
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    Worth trying to patch this cracked egg?

    Just got 15 eggs in the mail to be put in my incubator tomorrow only thing is... one of them is very apparently cracked on the small end; The air sac is also very detached and so freely moving it would probably go all the way to the small end. Is it worth trying to save this lil eggie? If...
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    Help With Slaughter! Desperate! He's dead now, Sankyoo

    Have roo strung up, was prepared to snip his artery as suggested... can't find it... snipped off his feathers... completely shaved his beard... what am I looking for? The poor guy is hanging upside down waiting for me to figure this out! I tried just /snipping/ at the esophagus and it barely...
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    My very first egg today!

    This morning, both of my D'uccle roos woke me up at 6am, unusual for them. They were crowing a LOT more and louder than usual. I disregarded it and went back to sleep. Woke up on my own around 8:30 AM and while having breakfast I noticed everyone was in the chicken run except for Auri. She is...
  19. Rin

    Goat Pen :B

    ((Posted on BYH but more thoughts would be useful...)) I'm trying to make a very simple goat pen for what will be two very small goats (with both Nigi Dwarf and Pygmy in the mix) I'm trying to get either two does or one doe and one wether from the lady. They aren't even born yet but I want to...
  20. Rin

    That's it, next time I'm just asking you guys.

    Just got back from the vets with a $107.00 bill I can't afford for what I knew was just a simple URI in a cat. It's not a bad one. Just sneezes a bit. Otherwise he's as lively as a kitten, eats and drinks and everything normal. I waited nearly an hour - even though I made an appointment and they...
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