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    WhatsupFlorida?

    NotTheBee.com has a story from Florida. Proposed: The meat chickens produced on small farms will be sold with head, feet, and entails intact. https://notthebee.com/article/come-see-how-the-state-of-florida-wants-small-farmers-to-sell-chickens-from-now-on
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    This is the first season that one male guinea and his harem of six female guineas are hiding their eggs in their super-secret guinea nests--underneath trees, behind an old door frame leaning against a fence post. It is the second nesting season for the male and two or three of the females. In...
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    Limping Guinea Keets

    My keets from this summer are around 20 weeks now. All four are females and I am noticing limping and behaviors demonstrating foot discomfort. At first there was only one reluctant to move along on her feet. This week there are three of the four. Their feed was 30% protein Purina Game Bird...
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    Time for new "place settings" for the flocksters

    I noticed that my collection of plastic feed pans are cracking and the galvanized metal pans have corroded holes. I would like to try rubber feed pans for the layer hens but I notice the sides of the pans available at Tractor Supply are high, between 5 to 6 inches. Are there any pans with a...
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    First season guineafowl hatched

    Yesterday the first of two wild guinea nests hatched. The female is on her first nest. She chose a live oak trunk to collect the eggs and set on. We were wondering what kind of mommy she would be. Apparently she is an inattentive one because we found the hatching keets exposed and ants...
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    Straight Run Guinea Fowl from the feed store

    What is the ratio of hens to roosters in the "straight run" bucket of day old guinea keets at Tractor Supply? My keets are 10 weeks now and I am listening intently for the female "cook-ee, cook-ee" calls to drift above the strident "chi! chi! chi!" calls of the males. I am up to two...
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    Phantom Bobcat

    How infuriating to return from a vacation to count beaks one morning and come up six short, and three bills too. In the past our experience with a daylight predator that returns daily for a to-go box, leaving us with feathers, turns out to be a bobcat. I kept the flocks inside, letting them out...
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    Game Camera Care and Feeding

    What could I do to replace the clear plastic lens cover on my Moultrie camera? I put my thumb through the sun-bleached plastic when I was repositioning the camera. I suspect it does not operate in wet conditions. Regards, Julie
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    Who has trapped feral hogs for meat?

    Outside the poultry yard fence I have noticed a pair of feral hogs on my game camera. DH suggests that we build a corral (hog-al?) with a trapping gate to catch them, feed them and put them in the freezer. Has anyone done this project before? How did it go?
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    Duck Deep Litter Coop is now Deep Oozing Black Slime Bog

    18ish ducks and drakes share 100sqft coop, two of four walls fully screened. Because of the overheads and the sneaky daylight predators we have been keeping them inside a lot. They drain the 7 gallon water drinker twice per day. They might even drink some of it. Lately the deep litter of the...
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    Rattlesnake

    I approached a tubular steel gate to open it yesterday and received a soft buzzing from the other side of the wire. I stepped back and it stopped. I stepped forward and it resumed. Rattler! I called to DH who joined me in putting eyes on the visitor. It was in the poultry yard on the other...
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    Drat it all! It's a daylight fox raid

    We lost a chicken last week to a daylight raid. It was unknown what grabbed my silkie rooster or how it got over (or under) the wire of the fence. We followed the feather trail and placed a live trap in a nice shady spot, plenty of camouflage. We have been trapping for a week now, keeping all...
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    Let's Play "Name that Chick!"

    We are in love with the plumage. It is a very sleek, clean legged beauty from Tractor Supply.
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    The great game of "Name that chick!"

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    If I Only Had a Brain...

    We have been watching for predators for two weeks now. We repositioned the game camera in hopes of visual evidence after checking its memory for any pictures. No pics, so a fresh load of batteries and reprogram the clock before returning the camera to its post. The cam has been deployed for 3...
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    Overhead predator got my bucky!

    Today we found a duck hen ambushed under a tall oak tree, between the trunk and the wire of a chicken tractor. She was on her breast. The predator plucked the back and scraped the flesh clean from the bones. Head and neck were intact. My poor little bucky, and the chickens closed in the...
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    Flock Up and Quits Laying...to a Hen

    Thank you for the sticky post and the links. Our flock was being aggressively hunted by the neighborhood bobcat, so we spent over a month confining the layers, the ducks, and the toy box bantams while we baited for the bobcat. When we never caught anything, and news of another neighbor...
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    The Adventure of the Drake with the Twisted Lip...

    ...or bill. My duck reference is Holderread's "Storey's Guide" on ducks. His opinion on twisted bills is they are not inherited but rather they are caused by trauma to the bill that caused it to twist as the duckling grew. Is there any other information on twisted bills in the literature...
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    Intros: BYC, this is Julie; Julie, this is the BYC...

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We have kept chickens since 2001 (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Too many for our own good. (3) What breeds do you have? Hybrid egg machines; Narragansett turkeys; bantam bearded d'uccles, cochin, silkies, buff...
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