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    Sour crop or something else? pics

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. Easter Egger Hen, a year old in June, don't know how much she weighs, she is smaller than my other heavy breeds. I am sure she lost some weight in the last week. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Went off egglaying, sitting on roost in the middle of...
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    What do you call the coloring of these EE's?

    the cockerel What do you call this coloring? If you put an EE cockerel with this coloring over a barred hen what would the resulting coloring be? If you put an EE cockerel with this coloring over a partridge hen what would the resulting coloring be? the pullet (center) What do you call...
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    Hens missing feathers from roos, when will it end?

    I kept 2 roos in with 17 hens over the winter. Come spring the roos gave the hens a run for the money and left them looking pretty shabby, missing feathers on their backs and heads. Once I collected fertile eggs to hatch I sent the roos off to freezer camp. That was 5 or more weeks ago. The...
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    First time incubating-got twins!

    I set 41 eggs 3 weeks ago Monday at 4:30 pm in a still air incubator. Had a party yesterday and wanted some chick action for entertainment. Being its my first time and all I was a little worried that it wouldn't work out. I definitely saw 6 or 7 live embryos when I candled at one week...
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    Roo's rear is angry red, see picture

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. Cuckoo Marans hatchery cockerel, 29 wks old, nice and hefty 2) What is the behavior, exactly Acting normally, but he has a red area with no feathers below his vent. 3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? Just noticed it...
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    Can anyone review this automatic coop door?

    Looked at a few automatic doors and this one fits the budget. I also like that the moving parts are not exposed like some others. It looks nice to boot. My one concern is that the door appears to open an close rather quickly. I wouldn't want one of the girls to get guillotined. If you...
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    Grossness inside egg-what is it? PICS

    I'm not sure where to post this, thought I'd try the egglaying topic. Here are pics of a wad of yuck that was in an egg I cracked today. What is it? It doesn't look like the roundworm pictures I found. Is it just a piece of her insides that made it inside the egg before the shell went on...
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    First Marans Egg (hatchery bird)

    Very excited to have a new color in the egg basket today. I find the color surprisingly beautiful for a hatchery Marans, though I know it is not as dark as it "should" be. For comparison, I have shown it with my other two layers' eggs. They are Barred Plymouth Rocks. The Marans egg was quite...
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    First Seed Catalog

    Just got my first seed catalog in the mail today. Pinetree Seeds. FYI Here's what they have to say about their GMO policy. 1. We do not sell and genetically modified seeds. 2. We have been doing business with the PEOPLE from Seminis for more than 20 years, long before they were bought...
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    Cheesemaking help needed-cheddar

    I'm making a hard cheese for the first time, Farmhouse Cheddar from Home Cheesemaking. I cut it at time it suggested, the whey is a fairly clear yellowish color, the curds white and very soft. I'm just wondering if I cut it too early. It was like slicing silken tofu, softer than say yoghurt...
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    Soft, light colored egg after normal eggs

    My barred Plymouth Rock has been laying for two weeks. She's been laying 4 days on 1 day off. She just took a two day break for the first time and today her egg was much lighter in color, almost white, and the shell was very thin. She also seemed to be in the nest box longer. I have oyster...
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    Help, dummy me got barred coloring in 3 breeds!!! w/ new pics

    I know I'm right about the Dominiques, but which are the Cuckoo Marans and which are the Barred Plymouth Rocks? They are just hatchery stock, so I know they are not good quality, but they are lovely to have none the less. Thanks! Breed #1 Pullet and cockerel @ 17 weeks Just the pullet @...
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    Anyone NOT feeding commercial pelleted/mash feed to your layers?

    If you are not feeding commercial feeds, what are you feeding and what are the advantages? I'd like to move to feeding things that are more suited to the natural digestive processes of chickens. More "whole foods" for chickens, so to speak. My interests are to improve the overall health of...
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    Daily carb and protein requirement per bird

    I'm rethinking my feeding and trying to move away from feeding pelleted feed for my egglayers. I would ultimatedly like to feed a mix based more on whole grains with a high protein supplement to round it out nutritionally. In the process of researching my options, I'm finding lots of info on...
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    Chicken herding

    Just wondering how you all herd your chickens if they get out. My chickens are in a chicken tractor that gets moved about the backacre (at our house we have the backacher and headacher ) and I let them out to roam free for an hour or two in the evening. After sunset, they put themselves to...
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    How much space for meat birds?

    I tried asking this on the Meat Birds topic with no response. Maybe I'll have better luck here. My sister just asked me for advice about building her coop and run for meaties. I know for my hens the general space requirements are 4' sq inside with 9" roost space, and 10' sq outside per bird...
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    Coop and run requirements for meaties.

    My sister just asked me for advice about building her coop and run for meaties. I know for my hens the general space requirements are 4' sq inside with 9" roost space, and 10' sq outside per bird for a permanent structure. Those numbers seem awfully high for meat birds and I wondered if there...
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    Overeating free-choice calcium?

    I just started offering free-choice calcium. My pullets are 20 weeks old and 5 or six of them now have very red faces, combs and waddles. Some are starting to submit to the cockerels instead of running in terror. So I thought it was time to offer calcium; if their behaviour and...
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    Natural range of a free range chicken

    If a chicken were in the wild or you were to exclusively free range birds with no supplemental food in a climate with four distinct seasons and the area included a mix of forest, field, and brush approximately how much land would support how many birds? I know this is a really general...
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    Are your chickens this chicken?

    Its getting pretty cold and windy in this area, so I decided to add a windbreak to one side of the portable run attached to the chicken tractor today. I used an old panel of corrogated translucent fiberglass that I stole from a defunct shed on our property. When I slowly approached the outside...
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