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  1. chicky_mommy

    Guinea Hatching Eggs

    Looking for roughly a dozen guinea hatching eggs. Must be shipped to CT. Willing to pay as much as $2/egg with shipping as keets at my local feed store are $2 each. Really hoping to get hatching eggs though as I currently have a brooding hen.
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    Quail as house pets?! and more quaily questions...

    I have raised chickens for a number of years now and as I've only had a VERY small "flock" 2-4 birds I used to keep them in a dog crate durring bad winter storms (couldn't get to my coop) and durring one hurricane (wasn't sure my coop would stay standing). Now the farm and pet down the road...
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    !warning! Design Flaws Cause Death !UPDATE!

    I had a small design flaw in my coop...no way to enter the small run, the pop door dropped shut just fine when i realesed the rope I rigged, HOWEVER it didn't have a latch, as a result one of my babies got pushed by the others and ended up pinned to the ramp by the door, when I found him this...
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    UPDATE!!scared!!HELP!!Think I might be loosing half my new babies...

    I have owned chickens for 13years, and I have been raising them from chicks for the past 8years; HOWEVER this is the first time I have raised them on completely on my own...my helpful grandfather has recently passed away and I'm afraid he didn't teach me much about how to handle things when they...
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    New Flock (closed)

    I'm picking up my 6 new baby, bantam cochins on Friday, I'm so excited!!! Going to post pictures as soon as I get them and then once a week until they are fully grown. Once they are fully grown I will have to place 3 of them or all the roosters...if you follow this thread I will let you...
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    Building my First Coop and Panicking

    I have owned chickens on and off for almost 13 years now, but until now have never built my own coop...my dad has always built what we referred to as a "ramshackle coop" out of what ever was laying around the yard, or we have once in a while used an empty rabbit hutch for a pair of them. I am...
  7. chicky_mommy

    Climate VS Breed Question??? Little help?

    I can only hope that I am posting this in the right forum... I live in the Northeast Corner of CT. I have recently decided to purchase some Cochins for my daughter and I. When I was growing up I had one who was simply the most AMAZING BIRD EVER, and now I want my daughter to have the same...
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    Wanted: 2 Cochin Pullets !!CLOSED!!

    I'd prefer pure breeds but even mixes would be ok. Must be at least 10weeks or fully feathered. I will pick up(or meet half way). Willing to pay up to $15/each. Do not have to come from same home but would be better. After some VERY careful discussions with various people I know I have decided...
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    ??Best Breed For Children??

    I have owned chickens, all but one of which was a cross of something, in the past and i've raised them from eggs to 8years old, but I was 12 when I started with them. My daughter will be 3 in the spring and I want to get some chickens for her and me to share and enjoy the company of...the...
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    Hello from returning CT Backyard Chicken Mom

    Hello From CT. My first chicken was a gift to replace a dog that I had to give up when I was 12, she was a leghorn cross and bitter bird who hated everyone but me and i was only barely tollerated and only when I had food, sadly she met an untimely death. Almost year later I got some RIRs...
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