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    Eatting The Insides Out, What Is It?

    Insides gone out of two hens in two days. There were a lot of feathers laying around and the bodies were in the back part of their wooded pen. The heads were intact. One foot gone and one wing gone. Heart and bladder(i think) still there, but all bowels and stomach gone! The other days I lost...
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    is cantaloupe rind (green lined) ok for chickens?

    I have looked on the chicken treat chart and it doesnt say that the green part of the rind is ok....just want to make sure before I feed it to them. Does anyone know?
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    can i put one dwarf goat in with my 6 chickens

    we are finishing adding on to the chicken pin and my husband says.... "lets get a small goat to put in here with the chickens for the kids" will this work?....new run area will be about 30 x 50.
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    faverolle over EE...what to keep?

    I have a trio of faverolles and three EE hens. My husband says let what ever hatch that is under our frequent EE broody (next time she decides to go broody). I am feeling guilty for mixing the breeds. The eggs from the EEs are much bigger than the faverolles. I am in this for the eggs but...
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    usually cream egg, white egg now...?

    my faverolle hen usually lays a cream colored egg and yesterday she layed a white one....? any thoughts on what is happening?
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    pointy vs. round top

    i am new and have not let one of my hens raise some babies but plan to in the spring...some of my eggs are round toped and some are pointy....is there a difference in which eggs i should pick when it comes time to leave some under my hen? i know this might sound dumb so go easy on me...LOL
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    heat tape and 5 gallon waterer?

    i was reading the thread on waterers and the cookie tin heater and told my husband about it and requested him to build me one. he is some what helpful but the chickens are really my thing. he proceded to come up with ideas of his own. we ended up a TSC getting a bigger metel waterer and then...
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    many questions about current chickens and what to get next

    i am still just in my first year of chickens. i am ofcourse wanting to expand. LOL i have a 8x8 coup with a 3x8 raised inside area inside the coup. we are planning to build about 20 foot out on one side and 10 foot on the other side for run areas. with that being said now i will be able to...
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    egg color of SF verses EE (pictures anyone??)

    im new and have not gotten an egg out of my SF yet (i dont think) and was wondering if someone had a picture of both together...the pictures on the web that i have seen look alot like my EE pink...i would like to see a picture of them together to see if the SF has been laying and i just have not...
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    weird yoke

    some of my eggs, after i break them, are comming out with the yoke kinda runny or some times the yoke is modeled(different colors in waves) looking....what does that mean and are they still safe to eat? thanks for any help....cathy
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    u have to look at this egg....WOW

    I just had to post this picture of the egg I found after this hen had not layed in 3 days...it was 3 inches long and I am dieing to crack it to see if it is a triple yoker...yall may have seen one like this but I am new to this and was in total amazement Thanks for looking...cathy
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    fencing question...i need advice

    my DH and I are about to put up a fence/run for my 6 chickens (3 EE's and a trio of SF). We have in our thoughts of putting a pair of small breed goats in there with them some time in the future...Our debate is either to make it 4 or 8 foot tall...with steel post, locus post, or landscaping...
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    rooster questions

    i went to get two salmon faverolles and the man "threw in" a faverolle rooster...he didnt have tail feathers im guessing the other rooster with him picked them out) but other wise he was beautiful to me so i took him. he has been with my mixed flock (EE and his 2 faverolles hens) for about a...
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    shy rooster

    i went to get two salmon faverolles and the man "threw in" a faverolle rooster...he didnt have tail feathers im guessing the other rooster with him picked them out) but other wise he was beautiful to me so i took him. he has been with my mixed flock (EE and his 2 faverolles hens) for about a...
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    what are my give aways?

    hi there...i am new with the chicken thing and learning more and more every day and loving every minute of it...i ran into a couple that was moving out of state and had a trio to give away...so of course they were "pretty"so i took them not knowing what i had...the two hens are colored a little...
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    need help identifying

    i have gotten 5 chickens(should be hens) and i have questions about 2 of them. i have taken pictures of #1 we call blondie and #2 we call princess (the brownish one)...not sure what breed or what they are sex....i cought blondie mounting on my RIR(took a pic) so im thinking he is a he but no...
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