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    Crooked breastbone...can I do anything?

    I have 8 liege fighters are just under 4 months old. They outgrew the growout pen and have been in their permanent pen for about a month now with a coop that has branches built in for roosting. I noticed this last weekend when I picked one up that a few have indented keel bones in the exact...
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    Can I deworm cockrells intended for meat?

    I have several Brahma cross cockrells that are intended for meat and they’re very worm laden. I normally NEVER medicate meat chickens (or my others for that matter) unless absolutely necessary but these cockrells contracted coccidiosis, recovered, and while the immune system was down, became...
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    2021 Breed Suggestions

    Not sure if this is the right category to place this thread in but here goes anyway. I am looking to add another breed or two to the farm next year for breeding. This year I added liege fighters, blue wyandottes, shamo to the menagerie. Other breeds I already have are Ayam Cemani, buff laced...
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    Busting Myths (mostly) about the Cornish Cross

    Be warned: this is a fairly lengthy post!! I’m in college and making 2 sentences worth of information into a research paper is my speciality!! This past January, I was told by someone at a poultry swap that, “cOrnIsH RoCkS caNNoT liVe pAsT 8 weEks aNd EspeCialLy nOt 12”. I was told that they’re...
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    Shamo questions....

    I’ll be getting 4 shamo juveniles (2 months old) next Monday and I was just wondering if anybody could give me a general breed overview. Any information about them will be extremely helpful. Also, if anybody has any pictures of their birds that would be great too!
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    Would this be cuckoo mottled color??

    I have this young pullet who’s color I’m not sure about. Her dad is a black langshan/cuckoo turken cross (he’s cuckoo colored) and the mom is a jubilee Orpington. She was born looking like a mottled chick but as she grew, where black should be, cuckoo grew out. She’s got more pure white feathers...
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    Genetics help

    Hello everyone, I need help with the genetics within my line. I am creating a new breed and I’m around 4 years in at the moment. I’m looking to make very muscular, tall, impressive breed with a pea comb, yellow clean legs, red earlobes, white/yellow skin, dark eyes, beetle brows, and a thick...
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    Ayam Cemani/OEGB Artificial Insemination

    Hi everyone! I was given a tiny silver duckwing OEGB hen (smaller than my homing pigeons) and she was laying and I wanted to cross her with something to get some chicks from her. All my roosters are much much larger than she and I didn’t want them to hurt her so I figured out how to do...
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    CORNISH ROCKS USED FOR CROSSBREEDING??

    Hi everyone! I’ve kept 10 Cornish rocks (7 pullets and 3 roosters) this year to be part of a breed project I’ve been working on a few years now. They’re around 3.5 or 4 months old now and doing fantastic. I’ve kept them 100% on free-range with very limited feed and left it up to them to find the...
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    Ninja Hen

    This morning I got up for work and heard the flock raising cane and the “hawk alert” sound from the roosters. I ran outside and saw that all the chickens had taken cover except one naked neck hen with two babies that had gotten separated from her. A Cooper’s hawk swooped in from one of the trees...
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    Liege Fighter Information

    Next week, I will be receiving around a dozen liege fighter chicks. Good information on the internet is few and far between and I don’t know what’s truly accurate. Does anyone have any first hand experience with the breed and could give me a good rundown of them?
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    Broody male guineas?

    So we’ve had a single population of guineas on our farm for around 16 years now. They’re almost fully feral and take 100% care of themselves on their own. During the day I never see them and at night they fly into the top of an oak tree at the edge of my yard to roost. This past year, a coyote...
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    ISO LIEGE FIGHTER

    I have been looking for some good liege fighter chickens for a long time now so I figured I would give this a try. I am mainly looking for chicks or potentially juveniles due to shipping cost but I will drive to a reasonable distance if someone has adults. I’m located in central Mississippi. Thanks!
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    Potential Breed Creation

    Three years ago, I began a breeding project to make a chicken breed of my own to fit my farm. I’ve had a bunch of different breeds over the years but I’ve never really been satisfied with any of them. Being a college kid, I can’t afford tons feed so my birds are fully free ranging. But being...
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