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    Bachelor Pad Gone wrong

    Y’all. Something terrible happened today. So terrible I need to speak about it. And understand why. I’ve had a bachelor pad for a year without problems today I witnessed a rape of the gang type. 5 cockerel s all raised together. 3 of them turned on my big beautiful Good Shepherd Barred Rock. It...
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    Understanding NPIP state codes

    I need help understanding some of these codes. I’m in Texas and am PT tested but not AI. The ones that say call for a permit confuse me.
  3. Juther

    Managing feed totes

    So hubs found me a wonderful little fiberglass house to store my feed. Naturally I need to fill it and found a 2,000lb tote on a pallet. It should last me 6 months. I told hubs we can have it delivered to work so they can put it on a trailer with the forklift. BUT, after I get that trailer home...
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    Cornish Cross vs Chicken Meat

    So, I have a few food intolerances. A few years ago I started buying processed chickens from a local farm, but I couldn't tolerate the meat, I assumed it was something they were feeding the birds. So I kept buying "organic" chicken from the grocery store. Now that I am an active breeder I have...
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    Silver Lavendar Orpingtons?...or not?

    I have a black/silver marans cock bird and a blue/silver marans cock bird, plus lavender Orp hens. I was thinking how beautiful the silver neck would be on a lavender Orp. So I hung out with the kippenger calculator for a while and I'm stumped. I just keep getting black. I know lavender is a...
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    Easiest Way to Move a Tractor

    So I'm pretty proud of myself for building a tractor all by myself! Hubs gave me a lesson on the chop saw and I'm pretty sure he was laughing behind my back, but in the end he said "it's surprisingly sturdy"! Success! I put black drainage pipe sliders on the bottom of the two short sides so it...
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    Birchen Chocolate Orpingtons

    I’ve been thinking of crosses I can do with my existing flock. I would like to make a Birchen Chocolate Orpington but I really can’t figure out the Kippen calculator on them. I want the chocolate color to be retained. Should I breed to blue or black?
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    Ceramic Bulb

    can I use a ceramic bulb in a regular heat lamp light fixture? Some people say the fixture needs to be ceramic also?
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    Wet Pox

    I'm on the mosquito ridden coast. I tried to find this info online first I promise. I had wet pox in July and lost 2 out of 3 chickens that got it. I have some chickens who have pox on their combs but are acting fine. Then I have 2 chickens that have the pox but also respiratory problems. I...
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    Injury help!

    I got two chickens from a lady that had them in a pen with too many chickens so they were pecked. Their skin was all healed up but they were missing feathers. I had them in quarantine in a dog kennel. Today when I open the barn door I startled them and one went flying. She caught her freshly...
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    Crested Cream Brabanter

    When I got my first flock of 14 this past March I never dreamed I would be talking about chicken genetics! I have one hen and one rooster. It's possible they are related as one came from a private breeder and another came from a local reseller, both in our area. They are 3 months age...
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    f4 Olive Eggers

    Hey y'all! I ended up with three F4 Olive Eggers and one is a boy. I thought it might be fun to make some F5s but the genetics has my head spinning! I found an olive egger chart on the Olive Eggers facebook group but I don't know the history of the ones I have. Do I breed them together to get...
  13. Juther

    What's wrong with my Roo's legs

    I just bought a Roo and his legs look like this. I looked up pics of scaly leg mites and it doesn't look like that to me. It looks like he has just rubbed the scales off or perhaps psoriasis?
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    Mosquitoes on the TX coast bout to carry me off

    It’s mosquito season y’all and I’m not talking about a few little buggers. I’m talking about so thick they’re in your eyes and nose and ears and don’t you dare open your mouth. They’re getting us in our sleep and we let 100 in the car even though we ran and jumped in fast. I would move in a...
  15. Juther

    Think I heard this one try to crow

    these are sibling olive eggers about 3 months old. I’m thinking I heard the second one crow. Does it look like a Roo?
  16. Juther

    Hen or Roo?

    Hen or Roo? I appreciate y’all!
  17. Juther

    My 2 month old F4 Olive Egger just ate a...

    Hair band (fabric over elastic, 3in dia) or a rubber gasket about the same diameter. She choked it down before I could get to her. Ugh, what happens next?
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    Chicken Math Help

    So I keep reading 3-4 SQ FT per chicken in the coop. I NEED to fit some more birds in my coop! PLEASE help me justify the space! Inside my coop is 8' x 6' = 48sqft and 7' high with 22ft of roost and 8 nesting boxes Outside area is also 8' x 6' and then I let them free range all day in a...
  19. Juther

    Transitioning Teenagers

    Hi all! I'm new here, this forum has proved invaluable! I can't seem to find the answer to this question though. I have 5+ week old pullets that are no longer on a heat lamp. I want to put them in the coop (sectioned off from the big ones) during the day. Everything I read says don't do it until...
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