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    Looking for Silver Laced Wyandotte breeding stock

    I've been raising SLW for over 20 years, but lost much of my stock to predators a few years back. I've attempted to replace them with chicks from various hatcheries, but the quality of the birds leaves something to be desired. Many are small, not the well bred, full bodied birds I'm used to. Is...
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    Failure to molt

    I have a flock of about 20 SLW layers. I've been raising them for the past 20+ years, and for the first time, I had two of my mature hens (not first year girls) fail to molt this past fall/winter. Now that it's the end of April, they are laying regularly, but they have the most ragged looking...
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    My hen laid an alien!

    My girls are starting to lay again as the daylight period lengthens. I was collecting eggs yesterday when my hand contacted something in the nest box that was not an egg. At first I thought 'egg without a shell', but no - it felt more like hard rubber than the water balloon feel of a shell- less...
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    Mysterious chicken/duck disease

    I'm posting this for my daughter who lives remotely without internet access. She wrote: "Seeking ID on disease. Chickens die very shortly after beginning to display poisoning-like symptoms: full-body tremors which progress into violent tonic seizures, possible (not 100% certain) pupil dilation...
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    Hello

    Hello! I've been raising chickens for 20+ years for eggs and meat. Currently have 20 SLW hens, 2 SLW roos and 5 Easter Egger hens. I raise Kosher Kings for meat. I also raise heritage turkeys and have three emus in Northern CA.
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