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  1. TreeFever

    Help a college farm bird with a nasty necrotic wound

    Hey all, I'm writing not from home this time but from my college. I go to a work college (Warren Wilson) with a large operating farm. We have a huge chicken tractor following our cattle around that houses 200 something laying hens (NH Reds, Barred Rocks, Buff Orps). This morning I was doing a...
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    Polish hen has soft poops, any ideas for the cause?

    My two year old crested Polish hen has some soft poo that is sticking to her bum feathers. The poo is pretty normal colored, sort of the color of their food, maybe a little darker. It's less formed (unlike the perfect little plops or spirals that my other birds make) when it falls to the ground...
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    A watering question

    I have a question about where to put my birds waterer. They have a normal waterer, always clean and full. When I'm out in the yard sunbathing or working in the garden, I let them out of their run so they can forage in the garden. I leave the run door wide open for them to come and go as they...
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    Icicles on my polish

    Hey guys, just a question about winter water for crested breeds. I use a plastic dog dish for winter water because it's easier to thaw. My problem is that my crested Polish dip the ends of their crest feathers in it when they go to get a sip of water. They grab a drink inside and then head out...
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    A neat experiment to do with your eggs:

    Extra eggs laying around and some curious kids? Try this egg-speriment: First, take a normal, uncooked egg and set it in a dish big enough to hold the whole egg. Fill the dish with vinegar until the egg is submerged. Leave overnight. When you wake up in the morning, the vinegar will have...
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    Contest: Your biggest and smallest chickens!!

    This is a just for fun/curiosity contest I want to see your absolutely enormous rediculously gargantuan chickens. I also want to see you eensy weensy itsy bitsy chickens. I'd love to see a nice photo with something in it for scale. Actual height and weight would be pretty neat too!! The birds...
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    What makes different eggs different colors?

    What makes different eggs different colors?: I understand white eggs because I think of calcium as being white (ala milk, oyster shell). But green, brown and blue? What sort of untold magic in the chicken's bum causes the colors?
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    Blood on first egg?

    My polish layed her first egg yesterday and it had a decent amount of blood on it! I was a bit surprised and so I checked out her bum and things seemed in order. Today she layed another egg and it was totally fine. She doesnt seem in pain or out of the ordinary. Was it because it was her first...
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    Pomegranate?

    Half a pomegranate that nobody wanted is in my kitchen...is it ok for the birds? Figured I'd ask as its a bit more of an obscure fruit
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    8 months and....A SQUAT!!!!!

    HUZZAH!!! I know Polish are slow but I adore them haha. Yesterday we got a nice squat from Dolly, and then today more from her and one from Petra!! Hurray!!!!
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    I think I know what she is but...

    I think this is a bantam sultan (from what I can find on google)? I adopted her from the farm where I work and she was the oddball thrown into a shipment of white and black leghorns and black rose comb banties. She was born April 2008. She has a sweet temperament, lays lightly tinted eggs, and...
  12. TreeFever

    Do it yourself cage cup!!

    Cage mesh + can (cat food, tuna, ect) + little binder clip = DIY Cage cup!! I use mine for free choice oyster shells or to hold treats!
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    A yearly chicken physical

    If you were to perform a routine "physical" for your birds, say every couple months, what would your checklist look like for health? I can think of: - Clear and bright eyes - sleek and clean scales on the legs - well padded breast bone - Check under the wings for mites ect anything else?
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    Do your chickens enjoy snow 0.0?

    Mine will have nothing to do with it!! They only come out during thaws haha Otherwise they just chill out in the coop and wait. Do we have any snow romping birds out there?
  15. TreeFever

    The Perfect Farm

    I'm sure some of you can relate...for me the five chickens & little veggie garden I have is me pretending to be a farmer I fancy myself in overalls living off the land but I'm stuck in suburban high school : So I wanna hear your dreams!! What would your ideal farm contain? Mine would be: A...
  16. TreeFever

    I'm DONE!!!! :)

    I want to shout it on top of a mountain...I am done with college applications!!! Oh sweet joy! Skidmore, Warren Wilson, Sarah Lawrence, UVM, Hampshire, Bates!! now we wait...
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    Close call with a hawk today

    Juvenille Red-tail went after my Polish but only got a huge handful of of wing feathers. She ran and hid under the deck and the others bolted for the bushes. The red tail was young and not scared of people at all, so i actually had to poke him with a pole to get him to leave our yard. Ophelia...
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    I need help :(

    I have to give away my rooster He is not allowed in my town and I have a very patient police officer next door and the rest of the neighbors are nicely but firmly making suggestions about how one might want to not have a rooster crowing all the time. This is the roo that was a surprise in my...
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    Incredible Golden laced Polish roo to a good home

    I have an absolutely beautiful Polish roo in my backyard flock but I cannot keep him due to zoning laws. We tried the secret rooster approach, but he's a crower and a (extremely accommodating and patient) police officer lives next door. I'd like someone who could take him on. You'll love him...
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    What is the best way to introduce new hens?

    I currently have 4 crested polish (1 roo who we will be giving away, and 3 hens). I brought home the cutest little banties from work yesterday. One is black with a rose comb and white ears, and the other is a brown sultan, both are hens. I've been trying to integrate them becasue I have heard...
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