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    Getting geese...house size?

    I have 7 goats with a nice barn and pasture. I think it would be cool to let them range together. I plan to build a goose "house" inside the goat barn so they are relatively unmolested. A friend is giving me a trio of Tolluse adults. I have a few questions: #1 HOW will the geese (I never got...
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    Do you sell your turkeys for Thanksgiving?

    Ok so if I order 15 poults in the spring...and want to pre sell them for Thanksgiving....how much do you charge people for the birds and do you butcher it for them? Im sure any of my buyers would NOT butcher. I currently have chickens and guineas and I see that the turkey poults are expensive...
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    Spring molt? Is there such a thing?

    Well I think I have done a bad thing....I had hubby cull a bird I thought was sick...she looked like a rag for a bout 2 weeks, then one morning came out looking like half her feathers were gone and for several weeks her eggs were so think they were like paper and the other girls busted them when...
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    Rooster damage/apron question

    Ok my girls have had the company of a few roosters. This last one is a beauty and doesnt attack me (oh boy what a bonus) the girls like him too. However his technique stinks and the girls have feather loss from treading. I have made aprons that are perfect however they arent wearing them...
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    Uh oh...she got chased off her nest....

    I have a broodie who sat on golf balls or whatever else she could find for 5 days. I didnt have any fertilized eggs for her but yesterday a neighbor gave me a dozen right out of her nest boxes. YEAH! I put her in the brooder under the nest boxes on her new clutch. She was happy. She ran...
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    Broody hen and a stupid question

    I have a broody hen. I would LIKE to have about 6 more girls added to the flock. My last hatch was 5 birds, one died and only ONE female! So now I have a new broody but my roo is gone. Can I buy hatching eggs on here and jamb them under her? Will they hatch? I dont even know how to go...
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    Aprons!....what do you think about this idea?

    Ok so I have some girls with rooster damage. Winter is approaching and my girls stand in the rain. I dont think regular fabric is a good idea. But how about if I make them out of SHADE CLOTH...so they would be able to dry off? I mean, they cant fluff or preen the area covered but I am at a...
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    DOGS! Anyone own a Catahoula?

    Opinions? Will this animal jive with 3 yr old and 6 yr old boys, 5 acres, a 6 yr old Lab and a 10 yr old Aussie? (chickens, horses, goats) Do they have any typical bad habits?
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    Why do you keep Guinea? Questions.

    Well I like these birds and wish I could free range them. However one of my dogs killed my next door neighbors bird so I know I cant let them out. Too bad I know theyd be awesome bug and snake patrol. But Im building a second coop in the spring for more chickens and thought it would be cool...
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    Rooster and sons...question

    Wyatt Earp is my lovely Cochin roo. (I give him lots of respect and even more distance) He threw some nice babies and I think 2 are little roo Jrs. I plan to build a new coop in the spring right next door to this one-sharing a common fence in the runs. Do you think I can keep one of his boys...
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    Crafters and artists trying to make some cash! I have an idea....

    Ok, I have tried every medium under the sun. I paint, draw, sew, sculpt...it is near impossible to make a consistent flow of cash off holiday season. I do boutiques and sell a few things here and there off my facebook page. Im not really so impressed with Etsy. Ebay isnt much better. I need...
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    Really bleeding toe. What to do?

    Well I saw she had what looked like a pecked spot on her bottom...bleeding. Looking closer it appeared a broken tail feather close to the skin. So I trapped her in the coop to catch her and I THINK when I was trying to catch her is when she busted off a "thumb" nail past the quick and it has a...
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    feathering out and egg color questions

    I have a mama who hatched eggs....3 are EEs and 1 cuckoo Marans. Will the EEs feather to look like the hen that laid them or is it a crap shoot? The daddy is a Cochin so they all have feathered legs which is so cool but they do not have his coloring as far as I can tell. Also do they lay the...
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    Molting questions

    My birds are just shy of 8 months old and of 11 birds 6 look to be molting. I thought this was kinda young. I can tell they are going to look like they have mange or something. How long does this take start to finish? It is pretty warm still. usually 60's at night and high 80s-90 in the...
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    I need an answer fast!

    Sun is down. All are on roost INCLUDING MAMA who has 4 2 week old babies she left on the floor! They have hoped up as far as the top of the nest boxes and no way can get on that roost. Has she abandon them? It will be about 60 degrees tonight. I have NO heat lamp, NO boxes to bring them...
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    PINLESS PEEPERS saves the day (or chicken butts anyway)

    Matilda got the Peepers put on this morning. It was a lot easier than I thought. I held her and hubby pulled the plastic peeper out of the hot cup of water and bent it open...kinda smushing into her nostrils. I thought it looked like it must hurt. Apparently the nostril area is not as hard...
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    DRAT! Ants on my hatchlings!

    9 eggs. 4 hatched yesterday. One today. The one from today had 2 red ants biting its eye when I found it (very very soon after it hatched. This was hours ago and still its eye is shut) I hustled to the store and got ant bait traps for outside the coop perimeter and pray that will get them...
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    The teacher asked if I would come talk about chickens....

    UMmmmmm....YEAH! Could I be happier? I gave my sons new kindergarten teacher a box of eggs yesterday(pink, greens, blue, beige, speckled, dark brown...) and when I picked him up this afternoon she asked if I would come early on Tuesday and talk about my flock. As it turns out I have a girl...
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    question...2 of nine have hatched so far....

    That was at 6am this morning. It is now 1pm. Do you think the rest WILL hatch? Am I over anxious? How far apart are they usually spread? Im nervous!
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    First hatch happening NOW! Question on post #9

    So she is nesting in her regular nesting box. It is up off the ground about 18 inches-with a chicken ladder and has a 6 inch lip on the box. I think this will be too difficult for babies to navigate. If I set up something for her UNDER the nest boxes, say in a plastic crate on its side is it...
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