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    ahhh - terrifyingly muddy, goopy poopy out there.

    My muck boots just made that awful slo-mo sucking sound. ugh!
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    Rain Barrel Hookup Straight to Waterer?

    Anybody worked this out already, before we start reinventing the wheel? Ideas? Thanks!
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    Help! Endless Rain = Stench Beyond Belief

    Help, ya'll, help! I've been keeping birds for years now and I have never had a problem like this. Everybody already knows it has rained here like cats and dogs and more dogs and more cats - for a couple of weeks now, and with no end in sight. We have twenty four birds, at the moment. My run...
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    TRUE OR FALSE: red cabbage = bright bright green poop?!?

    I've been looking for advice on terrifying green, literally kelly-green poop. FrenchHen just mentioned RED CABBAGE, of all things, and my husband says he fed them some this morning. Before I un-quarantine this bird: anyone care to second FrenchHen's bizarre, but genius, idea?
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    bright kelly green droppings?!

    Just when you think you've seen it all - somebody in my chicken run is making poops that are bright, and I mean bright kelly green. Yikes! Never seen this before, and suddenly there are three large poops within past few hours. I've got a kid sitting out in the run right now to figure out...
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    those trader joe's frozen chocolate covered bananas

    are like crystal meth to me. They are just so darned good. Anyone else?
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    excellent reference for all diseases - by symptom type!

    Go Mississippi! This excellent site from MS state university lists poultry diseases by symptom type. Mods: want to add it to sticky of sources on diseases? http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/diagext.htm
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    advice? chick w/worsening leg problems

    17 day old chick who walks with a real wobble due to both legs having some kind of paralytic weakness. Can't tell if its muscular or what, but it looks somehow more like nervous system than like structural, if you know what I mean. It's as if she is 'walking on her knees,' or rather as if the...
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    Ada Lovelace Day - Women in TechScience

    It's Ada Lovelace day! Read about Ada Lovelace, the 19th century countess widely considered the world's first computer programmer, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace and then, if you're a blogger, pledge to blog today about any woman's contributions to tech or science of any...
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    egg cartons - for incubating or just day 18 forward?

    Hovabator, very precious eggs from a fellow BYC-er. Anyone here use egg cartons straight through incubation, or do you all just use them to hatch? Looking for advice. tx!
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    DIG THIS: NEW AND SERIOUS GARDENS AT WHITE HOUSE

    DIG IT! We're talking vegetables! The first couple will be joining a group of public school kids, weeding! Kale, collards, chard, all the good stuff! This is utterly awesome! Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/dining/19garden-web.html?hp Now we just have to talk them...
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    NEAR STATE COLLEGE PA? we need your ideas!

    The weekend after this coming one, the 28th, we are coming out your way to visit my in-laws. They live in state college, in a continuing care community. They are in very poor shape, at this point, and the trip is hard on our kids for many reasons, but we need to still visit. We can't stay...
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    ten baby buff orpington cockerels!

    yikes- that was ten too many for me! Luckily, two teenage boys I know just said they'd take em, to raise and eat. They are looking to learn to slaughter, I guess. A pair of amazing kids, seventeen and eighteen I guess. boys I've know since they were babes, who are homeschoolin and...
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    Antibiotic Overuse in Our Farm Animals - important story

    This is the link to the second in Nick Kristof's excellent series in the NYT on the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens - in us humans - aand its relationship to how we treat our livestock. Please, let's all think twice before urging each other, as so many of us do, to dump some...
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    really necessary to separate brooding hens?

    I am going to let a couple of my broodies hatch out some special eggs a fellow BYC-er is shipping my way. Question: Is it really necessary to separate the brooding hens from the others? Can't they all, as Rodney King once said, just get along? Or will cannibalism ensue? This is my first...
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    What my dog is doing to get my attention right now

    Snout-Typing! As if putting a paw on my forearm when I typed wasnt good enough she started putting her paw on the keyboard and typing. That didn't work, so now she is trying to rest her entire snout on the keyboard. Let me tell you, this wreaks heck on the typing accuracy, not any too high to...
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    tell me about corn cob bedding

    Saw a posting near here on Craigslist for corn cobs, and I know I've seen this mentioned many times on here by midwesterners who live adjacent to giant corn operations. Do people use crushed cobs because they are what's local and available, or do you prefer them to pine, for instance? Can you...
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    BLRWs wanted in New England

    Chicks, please, or pullets? Will travel for great birds.
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    Hatchery for BLRWs

    Anybody know a hatchery with good BLRWs? Extra points if we can get them sexed. I have never had this breed before, and I don't know how hard they are to sex. Ideas? Tx!
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    State College PA

    Nope, I'm not there; I live in Western MA. But my in-laws now live in State College, and we are looking to find places to stay when visiting them. They are elderly and not in good health, and live in a continuing care community where we can't stay with them. Anyone know of an inexpensive, not...
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