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    let them outside? how cold is too cold?

    I have 8 chicks that are about 4-5 weeks old and they're getting way too big and too restless to be in their brooding pen much longer. I live in MO, and the weather here has been crazy fluctuations nights as low as 30s, days as high as 70s. Here's a link to our 7 day forecast...
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    Need advice please, hen standing funny but not likely eggbound

    I have a 3 year old production red hen who is standing upright, and it seems as though her belly is swollen -though that could just be because of the way she is standing. I have had eggbound hens before and this does not seem to be the case. She appears otherwise in good health, good comb and...
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    molting for over a month?

    Hi, I haven't been on here in a while(had internet cut out of the budget) anyhow, I am completely stumped as to why my 9 hens give me one egg a day-on a good day. I've been down the list of things that halt laying, and the best conclusion I can draw is that they are molting, they've been losing...
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    This is really cool! baby eagles!

    http://www.raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/index.html I'm probably not the first to post about this site, but I just can't stop watching it! These eagles are in Decorah, IA. It's a momma, daddy, two babies and one egg awaiting hatch. Their nest is 80 ft up and weighs around 1.5 tons...
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    If you are having a brainfart day...

    just wanted to let ya know you're NOT alone! so I have been on top of things all day. They're calling for 6-8 in. of snow today, so this morning I did a few things to get ready for it, got the kids home early, put the windshield wipers up, etc., and then I got the bright idea to go tend to...
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    do you rent? sooo ticked at landlord

    yesterday was epic stress for me. yesterday morning I very narrowly avoided what would have been a devastating house fire with me and my kids in the house. our furnace caught fire and my daughter heard the alarm and woke me up in time to shut the unit and the gas off. the furnace is downstairs...
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    should I go to the funeral?

    so I'm feeling pathetic for pouring my heart out here of all places, but it's been my experience that you all are kind and helpful people so... Yesterday I found out that my grandma passed away, she was 82 and battled breast cancer among other things. I got the news via a two sentence long...
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    what kind of dr. would you go to for this?

    So I have a dilema, and I'll try to keep this quick, I just wanted to get some opinions about this since I have no clue. Back in '08 I had a lump in my hand about the size of a dime, and it was attached to the tendons between my index and middle finger. It turned out to be a ganglion cyst, a...
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    Lost our first bird today

    hi, I don't know if this is the right place for this post-my apologies if not. about 20 minutes ago we said goodbye to our beloved Shaft, an 8 month old black sex-link hen. I wish I'd been paying more attention, and I noticed her acting a little out of the norm yesterday, but I didn't do...
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    need a good recipe for leftover shredded chicken

    I baked two chickens this weekend, (and I made my first batch of chicken stock woo hoo!) and I have a ton of leftovers I'd like to use up. I thought about doing a chicken soup or chicken and dumplings, but I just made leftover turkey and stuffing dumplings(turned out divine ), so I think I...
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    anyone heard of a turhamen?

    dh and I were discussing this last night. A few years ago we ordered a tur-duck-en for thanksgiving(a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey) It was really good, but no one really wanted any of the duck. So since then we've swapped the duck for ham, making it a tur-ham-en, we LOVE it he and...
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    Anyone else have a Cricket phone?

    I got a cricket phone a few months ago, I signed up for the $40/month unlimited talk/text deal, no contract. For the first few months I paid my bill early, but last month my husband was laid off and so I had to let them turn it off until I could make a payment. Now I'm all confused, I know I...
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    What books do your kids like?

    Hi! I got a barnes and noble gift card for my birthday. while my first instinct as a book hoarder is to order several for myself, I figure since money is tight and Xmas is around the corner, i should get my kiddos some books instead since their big readers. I'm clueless what to get and they...
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    show me your winter waterer!

    hi guys! well colder temps are upon us It's been just below freezing at night here for the last 2 nights. So, this weekend I'm gonna "winterize" I have a bunch of cardboard I got for free(pm me if you'd like to how I got it, pretty clever I thought) that I'm going to staple up to the walls...
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    how many eggs do you eat? vs. how many you sell/give away?

    I hope I posted this in the right spot, thought this might be fun, some of us have hundreds of chickens, some have just 1 or 2, so I'm curious: how many eggs do you get everyday? how many do you eat? how many do you sell or give out? me: I have 11 hens in my backyard, I get about 8-10 a...
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    taking a chicken to school today, any tips please?

    We're taking one of our production reds to my daughter's 3rd grade class. We picked Sissy, our most calm and socialized bird. We plan on putting her in a pet carrier and we're going to bring some of their feed, maybe some kind of treat, some pictures of when they were babies in the brooder and...
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    please share your story, promoting backyard chickens

    Hi, a dear friend of mine is a branch manager for our public library system, and also runs her own small organic farm. She runs a program at the library for kids(and grown-ups) to learn about raising chickens. She brings in chicks for the kids to play with and brings them home and raises them...
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    need help getting child support from deadbeat mom

    thanks for stopping by my post. I'm a mom of three daughters, 12, 9, and 4. Our 12 year old is actually my step from my husband's previous relationship, but we took custody of her when she was 5. She was living in deplorable conditions in a trailer in the middle of nowhere, not being sent to...
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    are these hawks?

    so far I haven't had any predation of my birds<<knocking on wood>> they free range in my yard which is in the middle of a suburban grid, a few miles north of here the housing developments stop and the more rural settings begin. In all the years I've lived around here I've never seen hawks in...
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    what's the deal with fart eggs?

    My girlies have been laying for a couple of months now, so I know not to expect a whole lot of consistency in egg size just yet. but today my white leghorn left me a teeny tiny little fart egg I'm just curious why they're so distinctively small
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