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    Serama chicks - various ages - Bloomington, Indiana

    Near Bloomington, Indiana. Local pickup only. I have about a dozen purebred Serama chicks under a week old, mostly with yellow/white down and some black spots or hints of rosy color. A few are also lightly booted, which is hard to find. Some are already showing wing feathers, there are some...
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    Serama chicks - silkied frizzled

    I have too many cockerels so three are for sale. Absolutely adorable, slightly older than 2 months old. They're all frizzle silkied so they'll be super fluffy and will be able to pass on both the frizzled and silkied genes. They're all between 5-6 ounces at the moment, they are my three smallest...
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    Polish chocolate rooster

    Gorgeous purebred polish rooster, he's a young adult bit less than a year old and a very unique chocolate/copper color combination. He is not aggressive to people at all, very attentive to his hens. Has gorgeous long tail feathers and is doing just fine in the cold so far. Hate to sell him but I...
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    What color is this Polish rooster?

    What color would you call this? I've never seen one quite like this guy. Any idea what the genetics behind this are? Thanks!
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    "Less Than Three" Handmade Silver Charm Pendants

    I make these charm pendants that feature the "Less Than Three" emoticon (which stands for a heart, or "love"). They're solid sterling silver, and come on a sterling silver 18" chain. Sweet n simple, perfect stocking stuffers $20/ea and come in little gift bags, ready to go. I actually make an...
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    giant homemade nipple waterer question

    So I was thinkin, with winter coming up here it sure is annoying to keep the waterers full (even heated waterers, because we can't use a frozen hose). And the thought occurred to me, would it be possible to attach nipple waterers to a large metal trash can or barrel (so, 20 gallons up to 55 gal)...
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    truck recommendations? :D

    So in our quest to continue building up our TinyFarm, we've come to the conclusion that we really do need a truck. It just doesn't make sense to rent one every time we need to move big stuff. But we have almost no experience with trucks, so I'm hoping maybe some of you might have personal...
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    Started pullets, ~2 months old

    Pickup only near Bloomington, Indiana, no shipping. I have about 15 started pullets for sale, all about 2 months old. Mixed hybrids of Orpingtons, Marans and Red Stars - should make nice vigourous, brown egg layers. Multiple colors: white, red, cinnamon, black, black&tans (these birds are...
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    short video of momma hen with chicks :)

    just wanted to share here's a little video one of my black mystery hens with her new bitties! the babies are mutts, mutts, glorious mutts.
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    quick (?) question about hen VS roo genetic contributions

    sorry i can't figure out how to phrase my question to make a good search term =/ are there traits associated with being passed from the roo VS passed from the hen? for example, i know to make a sexlinked chick, you might use a red roo and a barred hen, but not the other way around. why? does...
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    adult roosters - what are they?! BONUS: LOLROOSTER

    Okay, so, last year, I bought chicks at TSC and now they're all grown up. I know I have Buff Orpington hens, Red Sex Link hens, and... Mystery-Black-Somethings. The mystery blacks I got straight run, the chicks were identical (no dots on heads) and ended up being half and half, 3 hens and 3...
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    the Universe is enabling me...

    It's like a higher power just WANTS to give me reasons to go crazy... I bought some eggs on Ebay about a month ago, left the seller positive feedback and also mentioned that even though only 2 of 16 hatched, it was most likely from post office damage. Then I happily filled my incubator with...
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    new arrivals! :D

    just got done with our very first time incubating - it didn't go quite as well as i'd hoped, only 4 hatched =/ but they're cuties click link for video! five whole minutes of new chicks doin' chick stuff! two blue cochins, two barnyard surprises
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    free-ranging guineas

    Hi everyone! I've been toying with getting a few guineas for bug control on my property, so they'd need to free-range. My concern though is that we live right near a "busy" (for a semi-rural area) road, and I can't fence my whole property. The road is right next to a fairly steep embankment, so...
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    Wanted: Started or Adult, Standard size Cochin or Silkie Pullets/Hens

    I am looking for a broody momma hen (or a pullet that is likely to go broody) for my small flock Color, conformation, etc doesn't matter to me - no show lines needed - I just want a healthy, standard-size bird (or two) that would help my flock expand without incubators. Will provide a good...
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    I'm a (chicken) Grandma! :D - UPDATE - 6 babies!

    One of my hens that we'd gotten as a chick this spring went broody in October, which was kinda bad timing on her part but we figured we'd let her set on the eggs and see what happens... And as of yesterday, at least three have hatched! We've got a special area set up for her with a heat lamp...
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    those special "chicken moments"

    Inspired by a recent post, what's your favorite special chicken moment? Y'know, the ones that remind you that there is still goodness in the world. Today I watched my baby chickens eating wild strawberries.
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    small business owners

    Does anyone on here run a small time business, like selling things on Ebay/Etsy or anything else like that? What do you do?
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    chicken moat around a garden? :D

    So we were tryin' to figure out what we want to do to protect our new garden space from the deer, and it occurred to me that if we're already thinking about fencing it, what if we went ahead and made a narrow hallway-esque covered chicken run encircling the entire garden to make a "chicken moat"...
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    Anyone care to play the guessing game?

    I'm a newbie chicken owner, I got my first ten chicks ever about a week ago, and so far so good! Everybody is growing and appear to be happy and healthy. I got six that are supposed to be BA and four that were "assorted pullets." Three of the assorted all look pretty much the same and have...
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