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    Is anyone feeding ORGANIC, and what brand?

    My local feed supply place just retired and closed its doors. I have been feeding Purina Game Bird Layer, which the special ordered for me. Because I didn't know they were closing until I walked in and it was their last day, I had to buy a Flock Raiser that looked very similar from TSC. I woke...
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    Coturnix - What causes feathers to curl?

    Both my friend and I started raising coturnix this spring. I started out small and we both sourced eggs from different places. He gave me a pen of 7 birds and all of his have curled feathers down their backs. A couple of the hens are over-bred and missing back feathers, but even the male is...
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    How to manage a good breeding program?

    Hello, I am new to raising quail and had troubles with the first batch that I sourced eggs from and hatched out. They had a variety of leg and foot problems. I would like to know how people are maintaining healthy breeding stock? I have a variety of different color types and 3 different...
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    Nesting Boxes v. Slant Cage

    I just got another pen of quail...6 females and 1 male. While setting up their cage I made some changes to the other cage that I have. I put bathing pans in both pens and have noticed that the hens have started laying exclusively in the bathing pans instead of all over the floor. I was planning...
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    FOR SALE: Silkie Rooster, Black.

    I have one black silkie roo for sale. He's a good guy, nice with the ladies and not aggressive with people. He was hatched last summer from eggs I got online here. He's a good lookin boy who needs some ladies of his own! I live in Jackson, Michigan. You can message me here, or send text...
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    Drinking A LOT pooping clear? Need input

    I am hoping that there will be some folks that have encountered this.... My flock suddenly started drinking twice the amount of water that they normally do. It is not hot where we live, quite the opposite actually. So far their appetites seem to be normal. Some of them are pooping plain, clear...
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    T.V. or not to T.V, this is my question...

    Okay, so almost two years ago our television was stolen. It was a decent one, 32" flat panel. I was up on the front porch roof working to scrape the paint off the house, my mother was helping me. Someone or someones walked through the front door, beneath our feet, took the television and my...
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    Best for Last

    Two days late. It took its own sweet time.... My first porcelain silkie!
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    Outsourced to Hen...

    Even though I can't hatch as many chicks at one time, Dinka is so much better at this than I can ever hope to be! I got 22 eggs and expected that many would be quitters. I started the ones I really wanted under my hen, the rest went in the bator. After culling quitters I put all 6 that were...
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    Garage Chickens...Who does this??

    So, I'm sitting here over a nice meal with my fabulous other half, and we have a chicken housing debate..... We live in the city and INSTEAD of a coop, keep the chickens in one half of the garage. One of us thinks this is normal/more likely to be the way chickens are kept. The other person...
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    Slate Roof...GrumbleGrumble....StupidIDIOT Gutter Installation!!!

    Slate Roof...GrumbleGrumble....StupidIDIOT Gutter Installation!!! Ok, so I'm sitting here trying to remember that when these gutters were installed, the internet probably hadn't been invented, and there is like MAYBE ONE contractor in my state that would've known how to work on slate...
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    Effective CAT WORMER??

    Does anyone have suggestions for an inexpensive and effective cat wormer. I have 6 cats to treat and very little to spend. Thank to anyone with comments!
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    Polish X Showgirl...is anybody workin on this?

    Have been mulling it over since coming across Showgirls... I was thinking that a bird with the Polish body type, smooth feathers and bare legs would look amazing with the Showgirl skin color and naked neck! Has anyone been working on this? Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start with...
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    Weeble Watchin.... life as city roo in the house

    Weeble is our special little guy. He had a hard start in life and it's been a rocky road ever since. He hatched on Easter day of 2011 along with 4 other little chicks. He was in distress part way through his hatch, and when I got home from Easter supper he was dried into the lining of the shell...
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    Hen leaves nest on last day??!

    Has anyone else observed their broodies behavior on the last day of hatch? I have a showgirl that has been broody forever. I finally took pitty on her and secured some fertile eggs. I checked on them today because I expect them to hatch tomorrow. Low and behold 2 have pipped and all three are...
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    Pet Chicken, Attitude Adjustment ADVICE needed

    Weeble was hatched Easter day. He had a rough get-go and just weathered a vicious case of wry-neck. As a result of the care that was required in getting him through the bout of wry-neck, he is completely a house bird. His current sleeping quarters is in the bathroom. And he spends most of the...
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    A Sad Day....

    It was such a beautiful morning... Then at just before noon, my other half Mike (who doesn't like birds), calls me bawling uncontrollably. I couldn't understand a word and had to convince him to take a breath. He was hysterical... a dog pushed the garage door open and made fast fun of all of our...
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    Polish Crested Wry Neck / Crooked Neck Diary

    I have decided to keep a log of my experience with my wobbly little Weeble. It has helped me to read the threads from other worried poultry parents, and I hope that my two cents will steel someone in their battle to cure their baby! THE PATIENT: Weeble, a 3 month old Polish Crested Frizzle...
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    Wry-neck? Never encountered before. Trying to diagnose.

    I haven't posted pics on here before, so please bear with me. -- Polish Frizzle, 4 weeks old -- When it hatched it kinda flopped in circles for two days. I thought that it would die straight away, but then it just straightened up and was fine. -- Checked on the kids this morning and Weeble was...
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    The Cat Came Back!!!

    I just can't beleive it.....I know cats are here and there all the time. This one I expected to be transient at best. In May of 2010 she turned up with 4 recently weaned kittens that she was still not so patiently teaching to hunt and ready to have fly the nest. She wasn't in poor health...
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