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    Silkie hen is a great brooder.

    An eggsellent story: Speaking of meat chickens, the meat chicks finally arrive in town this morning and I went and got 6 for our small back yard/coop. I had planned to sneak in to the coop tonight and place the chicks under Mrs. PJ, our silkie hen, as I thought her eggs had gotten cold and...
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    Regular chicks hatched by a bantam!

    We only have 7 laying hens but I wanted to raise my own replacements but I don't want to do the brooder routine for just a couple of chicks. I thought that being our little bantam hen is so good about hatching and raising her young that when she went broody we replaced some of her eggs with 3...
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    Three New Turkey Poults!!!!

    Yesterdays surprise came in the form of three new poults hatching. We have 3 hens that have been sitting on eggs for over a month and a half. Well there were many blanks, eggs that didn't hatch as these were the first time eggs for all of the hens (3). We had one hen sitting on 11 eggs, she...
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    Putting weight on my turkeys

    I live in Costa Rica which I cannot find high protein feed. My turkeys for the table are at 24 weeks. They are somewhere between 10 and 15 pounds. What can I do to put weight on my turkeys? I have been giving them extra cracked corn. They have the run of my back yard so they are picking and...
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    My free range hen has laid an odd egg.

    One of my hens had laid an egg that is really odd. I've not in my years seen anything like it. All of our hens have the run of the yard during the day. There is lots of room in the coop and plenty of places to perch. I have read several articles about what might be the cause but none of the hens...
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    Turkeys on deep litter

    One thing I haven't seen discussed is turkeys on deep litter in the coop. I have looked online but haven't found any info on this subject. Also, my turkeys share the coop with our chickens. I know there are great benefits for chickens in the deep litter I use but don't know what effects it...
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    This will test the best. . . . .

    Here is where I am, I have four Costa Rican turkey poults. I don't know if they are meat turkeys or what, what I want to know is with what I have, unknown, about the breed I have, how would you feed (percentages of what) to give and maintain the best bird. I wiil select stock for tomorrow...
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    Photos of the Chompipes, Costa Rican turkeys!

    Here are some photos of the Chompipes (pronounced, chom - pee - pas ). I asked about their origins and got a blank look, they are turkeys. . . . The old tom and a younger one. Showing off the the lady! Poults going on 4 weeks. I think the ladies like him! Poults being curious Ain't...
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    7 silkie eggs 7 silkie chicks

    Thursday, Friday and today my silkie hen hatched the 7 eggs she had laid. The first egg hatched 21 days from the day the hen started sitting. I think 7 for 7 shows that I got some good stock when I bought the hen and rooster. The hen had built her nest in the wood shavings I use for my...
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    Young bantam hen already broody????

    I just added a bantam hen to my flock (and rooster). She is not very big even for a bantam but she is sitting in one of the nest boxes continuously. She came from a large flock of bantams. Is it possible that she was sitting on a shared nest there? I had guinea's that several laid their eggs in...
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    Are you from Costa Rica too?

    Greetings for Costa Rica, I have been so busy that I didn't see this till now so here I am. I have my laying hens, Ponedoras, producing an egg a day for a couple of months. We just added the two Silkies (roo & hen) and two Jardineros (roo & hen). The two roosters are still deciding who is cock...
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    7 hens, 7 eggs

    Yahoo, 1st day all 7 of my ponedoras each produced an egg. It took the better part of the morning for all the girls to get down to business but it was a banner day. The ladies are sure doing their job of tilling the soil around all of the bushes. It keeps us busy scattering more soil and wood...
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    Ponedoras and what they look like.

    I was asked what my ponedoras looked like. Here are 2 of them, from the light orange/brown to the almost red. The red didn't come out as red as she is.
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    Eggs, eggs and more eggs!

    Silly me I have been so into what is happening I forgot to post the first egg. Well the first 2 eggs ended up broken anyway, The girls were laying them in the litter. I decided to move the nest boxes and put them on a different wall and higher. Gave them a new roost and they got right up in the...
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    Raising egg layers and broilers in the same coop????

    I got some very poor information that here in Costa Rica they have a very good dual purpose chicken. That turned out to be pure fiction so what I have now is a slight problem. I only have the one 10X10 coop. I want to be able to have about 6 laying hens and also be able to raise broilers. I can...
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    Sending greetings from new member in Costa Rica

    I am sort of new to raising and having chickens. Why sort of new, the last time I had anything to do with chickens was when I was a youngster. We then raised something like 50 chicks at a time, some for eggs and some for the table. At this time we have no chickens as I am in the process of...
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