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  1. MontanaChickDoc

    Keeping my meat birds warm during this cold snap

    So I have 15 meat birds outside in a 8x10 dog kennel on a concrete pad, with a fenced yard around the outside. The run is tarped, and there are 2 large dog kennels for sleeping time inside. We just got 5 inches of snow so they are hanging out in their kennel area which I bedded with pine straw...
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    Cornish cross birds get weak and die

    I started with 25 birds. So far I have lost 5 in the last week and one more is looking to go the same way as the others. They are 7 weeks old, and all of a sudden they can't stand, and just sit hunched. It happens overnight. I thought at first it was slipped tendons, but we bandaged the first 2...
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    What do you charge when you sell your meat birds?

    My neighbor developed the alpha gal "meat allergy" and was even having reactions to grocery store chickens because of the stuff they inject into them, to plump them up (sometimes contains collagen from animals!!). I offered to raise some meat chickens for them, and ended up butchering 15 Sasso...
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    Anyone else find Sasso meat to be tough and stringy?

    Last year I butchered 10 Cornish cross and this year I thought I would try Sasso broilers from Meyer hatchery and got 25. I butchered them at 14 and 16 weeks and so far have eaten 2 that got kind of torn up as I was learning to use my new plucker (which I highly recommend to anyone doing more...
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    Is anyone using these Hatching Time quail cages? What do you think?

    https://hatchingtime.com/collections/quail-cages/products/quail-cage-2-layer?variant=43028965359794 My husband is sick of helping me build bird enclosures (completely understandable) and I am a really crappy builder by myself. I was thinking about getting the Hatching Time fully ready to go...
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    ISO Isbar chicks or hatching eggs -VA

    The person I have ordered from in the past is no longer in the chicken business. Any recommendations for a good source of birds or hatching eggs? Thanks in advance 😁
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    Easter egger, he or she?

    10 weeks old. Suspect male but not as obvious as the other I have. Seems to have a 2 row pea comb. Large thick legs and suspicious watchful attitude. But no hackle or saddle feathers.
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    Lost power for 5 days so extra lights in coop were off - will my girls molt??

    We are in VA and lost power due to a heavy snow, from Monday to Friday morning. This means that my supplemental lighting was off for 5 days, which artificially stretched the days to 16 hours. Are my hens going to get confused and molt? Has anyone else experience this before? What happened?
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    Can any cuckoo patterned breed be sexed by head dot?

    I am picking up an izegem cuckoo hen and her chick tomorrow. I am not familiar with this breed but being a cuckoo pattern, will I be able to tell if the chick is a pullet or roo by its head dot?
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    How far will a large pekin range? Adopted or dumped?

    So I have a lot of birds and a busy life but only 3 white ducks. I may not immediately notice one black or red chicken amiss, but the ducks I only have 9 so it’s easier to keep track. Of the whites, I have one old fellow with a bum foot, one youngster and one call, all drakes. Today I noticed 2...
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    4 Americauna pullets and 1 French black copper roo for sale - VIRGINIA (pick up only)

    For sale are 4 purebred Americauna pullets (NOT Easter eggers!) and one French black copper marans roo, about 12 weeks old. The hens will lay lovely BLUE eggs and crossed with the marans rooster, will create gorgeous "olive eggers". There are 2 lavender and 2 splash colored, with lightly tufted...
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    4 Americauna pullets and 1 French black copper roo for sale - VIRGINIA (pick up only)

    For sale are 4 purebred Americauna pullets (NOT Easter eggers!) and one French black copper marans roo, about 12 weeks old. The hens will lay lovely BLUE eggs and crossed with the marans rooster, will create gorgeous "olive eggers". There are 2 lavender and 2 splash colored, with lightly tufted...
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    ISO female call duck pair or trio for lonesome male

    I have a white call duck male who lost his lady friend to a fox last year. He keeps trying to have relations with my full sized ducks which, although amusing to me to watch him ride around the yard on their backs, must be frustrating for him. The other drakes also do not take kindly to his...
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    Quail hatched in October, shouldn't they be laying by now?

    I hatched 5 quail and bought 10 more at the end of October. I still have 13, but not a single egg yet. They get Purina Gamebird feed. Surely I don't have 13 males! My turkey has been laying since beginning of March so I figured the quail would start too but nada. They are in a fully enclosed pen...
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    Automated egg washing machine that doesn't cost and arm and a leg!?

    I am getting 3-4 dozen eggs a day and I am looking for a labor saving way to wash the dirty ones. I sell almost all my eggs and with it being a muddy winter and many of my chickens having feathered feet, I have quite a few eggs that need at least a light washing. And of course duck eggs are...
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    ISO quail hatching eggs - larger types

    I would like to incubate a clutch of quail eggs, preferable Coturnix or other large type. I'm in VA but shipped eggs are fine. Let me know, thank you!
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    Could these be marans pullets? or...

    I ordered a batch of chicks from Meyer Hatchery which arrived July 16. In this order were 5 "green queens" and 6 "rare assorted pullets". Since the green queens are mixes, like EEs, they can look like a lot of different things I think, and I'm not sure which are what. I picked 5 chicks to keep...
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    Unusual places to lay eggs - revisited

    There was a post about this a while back - and maybe more since, but this was too ridiculous not to share. I mean, why not lay your egg in an almost empty bag of shavings? I have also had them lay in an almost full bag of shavings sitting up on its end. This one was particularly funny because...
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    Gender of 8ish week old chick?

    This chick is a mixed breed likely olive egger (marans over EE or Americauna) and I keep going back and forth on whether it's roo or pullet. Comb seems redder than usual but it's awfully hot. No obvious pointed saddle or hackle feathers. Thoughts?
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    I have 2 broody hens - what should I incubate??

    I started putting artificial lights on my ladies in December to stimulate an earlier ramp up in egg production, and it's working, but I also have 2 hens that are so convinced it's spring that they have gone broody. Sheesh. In January. I sell all the eggs I have (hence the lighting) so I don't...
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