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    Call to Anyone interested in Helping with a Cultural Interview for a Human Services Class

    Hi, guys. I have recently gone back to school to work on a Human Service Bachelor's degree, and one of our class assignments is to interview someone from a different culture and write a 4-6 page paper about the culture, the interviewee's background, the interviewee's responses to the interview...
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    Mystery Bantams

    I have several bantams from a feed store assortment. I thought that the blacks and whites were Old English, but the whites have yellow legs, and one of the blacks has yellow soles on his feet. The other black has a few feathers popping up on his leg, but only a few, and is not a cochin; the...
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    Sickly Brabanters

    I posted this in the brabanter/spithauzen thread, but I thought it'd be a good idea to post it here as well. I have 4 brabanter hens. They are all around 2 years old. All of them have stopped laying eggs. One developed a swollen, crusty face, like she has warts all over her face. I posted her on...
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    Hen With a Swolen Face

    I was watching some of my chickens today when I noticed that one of my brabanters' faces looked off. It appears to be swollen around her wattles, and she has some bumps under her nostrils. She is still acting normally and eating and drinking. I'm not sure if she's still laying; I have six...
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    Help Diagnosing and Treating Rooster

    I have a year-old barnyard cross rooster who didn't look well at all when I went to check on the chickens this morning. He was just standing in his pen and staring off into space and when he did move, he just kind of staggered around very stiffly. He didn't seem interested in his food, and I...
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    Combining Flocks for Winter

    My dad helped me build a new coop and run over the summer, and it's finally finished except for adding the nest boxes. The coop is roughly 7 ft. x 16 ft., divided in the middle, giving each flock about a 8 ft. x 7ft. area of space in its respective half of the coop. The run, on the other hand...
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    Question About Selling Chicks and/or Young Birds

    I'm planning on breeding some of my chickens next year, but I'm not really sure how to go about selling any extra birds. Of course, I plan to keep some for future breeding, but I may also have extras after I pick out the ones I want to keep, or if I decide to get rid of older birds. The freezer...
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    Question About Butchering OEGB Rooster

    I have an OEGB (Old English Game Bantam) rooster that I really need to get rid of; he's a nice looking bird, but I plan on keeping his son as he's gorgeous and a much more pleasant animal at this point. The father has started chasing the younger rooster up into the coop, so I know that they...
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    Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Gender Input

    I posted these in the Wyandotte threads, but more opinions are always better. These 3 BLRWs are 6 weeks old, and I'm pretty sure 1 is a cockerel. The other 2 I'm unsure of, so opinions? I have no experience with this breed, and I'm finding them much harder to sex than single combed birds. I'm...
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    Hens Laying in Random Places

    My hens have recently started laying in all kinds of random places (both in my bantam coop and the coop with the large hens). They were all laying perfectly in the nest boxes, but have recently started laying all over the place: in the nest boxes (great!), in the floor of the coop (not so...
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    Brooding Outside?

    Does anyone brood chicks outside and have good luck with it? I just received my 2nd chick batch of the year a couple days ago, and since it's been so insanely hot here for the last 2 weeks, I decided I'd try to brood them in a cage out on the front porch instead of in our cold basement where I...
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    Help With Chick Deformities

    I received a batch of day-old cochin and wyandotte chicks this morning. All were active and eating and drinking normally when I put them in the brooder, but when I began looking at them closely, I became a bit worried about two of the cochins. One has a couple curled, fused and webbed toes on...
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    Cocci Help

    One of my 4 week old (3 at the time) chicks was showing symptoms of Cocci, droopy wings and very bloody poop. I started treatment on the whole batch of chicks with Sulmet, and I went through the full 6 day dosage schedule following the directions on the bottle. I also started them on medicated...
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    Question about the Lavender Color

    I have a lavender Cochin bantam (I'm assuming lavender because she has pretty solid coloring, and with other blues I've seen, their heads and necks were much darker than the rest of their bodies), and this spring I hatched out a chick from one of her eggs (the father is a black-tailed red Old...
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    Help with Gender

    I've got a couple chicks that hatched about 5 weeks ago, and I'm pretty sure one of them is a roo, but I'd like confirmation. I also thought the second one was a rooster when its feathers first started coming in because its tail seemed long, but now that it has more feathers, I'm not at all...
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    FREE! Mixed Rooster (about 1 yr. old) - Pick Up or Will Meet

    I have an extra rooster that I'd like to re-home. I have no idea of his breed background; he tries to grow a few feathers on his feet every once in a while, and he has an extra toe on one foot. He's standard sized (probably around 6 pounds) and Colombian in coloring, but I'm not aware of any...
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    Silkies in Virginia

    Anyone know of any good silkie breeders in the Patrick/Henry County area of Virgina or no more than an hour or so away? I got a red silkie last spring that turned out to be a roo, and I've been wanting to get him some ladies. I'll take any color, though blue and buff are my favorites.
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    FREE (to a good home) - 6 month old Black and White Mixed Breed Roo

    Will Not Ship - Pick Up or Will Meet if Close Enough FREE to a good home - Standard Sized Black and White Mixed Breed Rooster (about 6 months old) Do Not Bid - Just Post or PM Me I bought this guy as a pullet, but as his feathers have kept coming in, it's become apparent that he's a roo. I...
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    Silkies (young hens)

    I have a silkie rooster and am hoping to get some hens for him. Does anyone in the SW area of VA have any for sale?
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    Need Some More Opinions on Gender

    This is Mambo, a mutt chicken that I got in a supposed pullet duo I got a few months ago. At first, I thought it was a pullet, but the feathering is looking very roo-ish to me now. She (he?) is around 6 months old, and if it wasn't for the bahavior, I'd feel confident in saying roo. However...
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