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    Moving a brooding hen?

    Is it possible to successfully move a brooding turkey hen to a safer location much like one would a brooding chicken hen? I've never owned turkeys before, but rescued a hen that got ditched alongside the road winter last. I got her a Tom about a month back and they have mated aplenty. About a...
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    Small-combed Bielefelder Project

    Hello, I currently raise purebred Bielefelders in the Adirondacks of Upstate NY. This is the first and only breed of single-combed rooster I've ever worked with (I have single-combed hens, but their combs are super small). It gets really cold here and so far have had terrible luck with...
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    Keeping a single Gander?

    I currently have 2 cocks and 29 hens, 1 guinea cock and 1 guinea hen. The guineas are great at keeping the aerial predators away, haven't lost a chicken to a hawk since getting guineas, however I do have trouble with foxes and weasels. I've heard that large breed geese are good at warding off...
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    • chickens gander guineas mixed flock single goose
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    • Forum: Geese
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    Sickness only affecting Australorps?

    I have 7 Australorp hens, 4 EE hens, 6 Partridge Rock hens, 2 EE cockerels and 3 Autralorp/EE crosses that I keep in one coop. Tonight when shutting them in I noticed one Australorp hen had a pale comb (which I take as a sign of sickness) so I checked her out and sure enough she had some yellow...
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    EE sex-link?

    Hello, not sure if this is the right place to post this. I don't know all the right colouring terms or whatnot, but I bred my primarily red EE rooster to three different black Australorps and got 2 identical grey (or blue might be the right term) chicks and 1 black chick. The 2 greys are both...
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    Beards and Muffs

    I bred my red EE cock to my black EE hen and successfully got 5 black chicks. They are now 4 months old and I've noticed that only one of them has not developed a beard nor muffs. She has a pea comb, but lacks a beard and muffs. Both her parents were hatchery stock EEs but both had full beards...
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    Small Scale Business

    Hello, As per recommendation by CTKen, I'm posting here! Anyone else on BYC try going into business with their chickens? My goal is to run a small scale organic egg, meat and perhaps chick-selling business that functions under the NYS 1000 bird exemption. I'm looking to meet others, share tips...
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    • 1000 bird exemption advice business eggs organic poultry small scale business small scale farm upstate ny
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    • Forum: Random Ramblings
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    Heyo

    Hi, I'm SJ and I live in the Adirondacks of upstate NY. I've been working with chickens for about 3ish years now and have learned that it is truly my passion. Just tried my hand at incubation for the first time and it was a big success! Out of 16 eggs, 12 hatched and 11 survived. For a while I...
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