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    Silkie Chicks High Mortality

    Let me preface this by saying, I am an experienced chicken mama. I hatch several broods of BCM's a year and raise and butcher at least 100 Cornish X a year, but these silkie chicks are making me crazy! My young son wanted to keep silkies as a little side business. He has 3 hens and 2 roosters...
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    Silkie Chick Lethargic

    My 7 year old son saved his money and bought 3 silkies from a local breeder. One of the chicks died after 3 days and another is looking lethargic and not growing like the third. We have about 30 chickens and are not new to raising chicks. I've seen failure to thrive in a couple rare...
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    Mites- Sevin not working

    I discovered just over a week ago that I have mites in my run (interestingly, I don't see any on the birds or in the coop itself). I have removed every bit of ground cover from the run and used an entire bottle of 5% Sevin dust and an entire bag of DE over the last week. I have also dusted every...
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    Semiboneless?

    I'm about to butcher my cots. Any idea what bones these big companies take out to make semi-boneless? Does anyone have a tutorial? Thanks!
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    French Black Cooper Marans Cockerels/Rooster

    I have 4 FBCM roos from my August hatch and I only need one. My hens and my neighbors need some rest! They are nice boys who have never shown any hostility. The eggs I hatched them from were purchased from redroofhens.com.It's hard to see in the picture, but they have feathered legs. Take your...
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    What Are You Paying for Feed?

    I just ran out to TSC for a 50lb bag of layer pellets. It was $14.49! That's up $.50 from last week and up $2 from this time last year. What are the rest of you paying. I'm thinking I may need to scope out some of the local feed stores even though they are further away.
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    Ameraucana/EE pair. Sex please!

    These two are eight weeks old. I think chick one may be a boy and am pretty sure chick 2 is a girl. Thanks for your input. Chick 1 Chick 1 Chick 1 Chick 1 with chick 2 in the background Chick 2 in the foreground. Chick 1 in the background. Chick 2 Chick 2 Thanks!
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    Internal Laying?

    I have an 18 mo old EE hen, Flag, who has never given me any trouble. She started acting Lethargic last Monday. She didn't want to leave the coop with the other girls and when I prodded her to get her out, she just wandered around slowly by herself. Her comb looks red and normal. Her poops...
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    Egg Bound or Sterile Peritonitis?

    I have an 18mo old BO who hasn't laid an egg in months. She sits on the nest a few times a week and gets off singing, but doesn't lay. She eats well, hangs with my roo all day in the yard and doesn't appear to be in any distress. I decided to feel her abdomen tonight just to see if it was...
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    Black Copper Marans- *Update* Y'all were right!

    EDIT: Here they are now at 7 weeks. You guys were right. It has to be two girls. I posted this over in the marans section but I think the post got missed: I hatched out 4 BCM chicks nearly 5 weeks ago. Sadly, 2 of them were eaten by a snake. I'm afraid the two I have left are little...
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    Blue Orpington Gender

    I think it's a girl, but would love some other opinions since I've never had blue orps. She's about 7 weeks old now. The pictures are showing a little pink in her comb that I'm not seeing in person. She has sprouted tiny pink waddles in the last few days. She's an only child, so I have no one...
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    How long until they know it's home

    My husband brought home a flock of 7 18-week old pullets. I already have 12 other chickens (and 5 chicks). I set up another coop for the new flock and would like to free range them when my original flock is confined. How many days do you think it will take for them to realize that this is...
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    Craigslist ad

    This completely cracked me up and I could not resist sharing it! http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/grd/2467996211.html
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    Bumblefoot

    I diagnosed one of my RSL with Bumblefoot earlier this week (I found a great "how-to" post on BYC). Tuesday I soaked the scab off and dug the waxy stuff out of her foot. I was concerned that I hadn't gotten it all, so Wednesday I went in and got the rest of it out. Daily, I have soaked the...
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    Bald Neck'ed Hen

    My Rooster has pulled out all the feathers on the back of my Frizzle's neck. She's sporting a saddle (since her back was getting pretty bare) and I've ordered her a new saddle with wing protectors (since her wings are now bare too). Is there anything I can do to dress her neck? A chicken scarf...
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    Soft shells: how long is normal?

    Hey peeps, One of my RSL, Peg, has been laying soft eggs off the roost for the last 5 days. She is about 22 weeks and until Tuesday laid a large or double-yolked egg every day for about 2 weeks--then this. We are having really hot weather here, but have been for well over a month. My other...
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    3 Eggs, 5 Yolks

    My girls were thinking twins this morning! We got 2 of the biggest eggs we'd ever seen. They each had 2 yolks. Here is one of the eggs next to one of the last supermarket larges I have around. I'm a giddy chicken mama today!
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    What age do I butcher?

    I have 2 SLW cockerels who are about 16 weeks old. At what age to I butcher them? Also, this is my first time butchering birds. How hard is it really? I've read a couple of how to's on it and I'm a little apprehensive. ~Tiss
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    Araucana/ EE pullet or cockerel **Updated with new pics**

    My husband brought Flag home from one of his customers who raises chickens. He said it was an Araucana, but could just as easily be an EE. I'm not too sure of the differences. Any clue if Flag is a boy or girl? He/she is about 9 weeks old.
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    Dog got my two EE's

    I could just cry. This afternoon, a cast-off dog got my two EE's. I went to give my other chickens an afternoon snack and found the rottweiler mix snoozing peacefully in the chicken coop. The stiffening corpses of Cricket and Martha lay out back. I'm not so sad about Cricket as he had a date...
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