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    Feeding 100% organic without going broke?

    Good morning: When I started back up with chickens I decided to raise them 100% organically. It wasn't too expensive on newly hatched chicks. My oldest have switched to grower feed and I'm having sticker shock! I just bought ONE 50 pound bag of scratch and peck organic grower mash and it was...
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    Keeping roosters of different breeds from fighting.

    I'm hoping to get some advice on managing roosters of different breeds withouts having to have multiple coops (if possible). I have 5 separate pure-breeds of chickens. All 5 breeds consist of a rooster TOTALLY UNRELATED to the hens. I want to sell hatching eggs and chicks and I didnt want...
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    2 bird problems- 1 day old & 1 month old. Help please

    Hi Everyone. I'm asking for help. I have 2 birds - a 4 week old cockerel and a 1 day old chick with different issues. Videos attached. Bird 1) The cockerel will be 4 weeks tomorrow. He has deformed toes. I took a video. BTW, in the video he was on a wooden chair and would not walk. I later put...
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    Hygrometer Hell! Help

    Help, please. I put my 2nd batch of eggs into lockdown today. I will NOT open it until chicks are dry and ready for removal. I don't ever want to repeat the heartbreak of 10 days ago where 28 chicks died fully developed 1 day prior to hatching after being "shrink-wrapped” (final conclusion) I...
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    Diseases passing to HUMANS, not a sick bird. Help?

    I could not find a suitable heading for this post, so I hope this is ok. I grew up on a farm. Have been around farm animals for almost 60 years *yikes, I'm getting old🤣* I walk around barefoot, eat veggies and fruits from my garden without any thought to washing them and germs are NOT on my...
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    23 days ago I began incubating a batch of 36 eggs. Mix of common breeds. Through candeling I identified 4 that were bad, 32 were developed and healthy looking. On day 19, 6 chicks piped and hatched within a few hours. Several more eggs were moving and there was chirping from within. At the...
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    Will Guinea fowl bother my dogs?

    I have a mixed flock of chickens, various breeds, and turkeys. They were raised around my 3 big dogs and neither bother one another. The intermingle in the same fenced in yard in any way. I want to add some guinea fowl to help reduce the bug population and to alert. My dogs are house dogs and...
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    Help setting days on incubator

    I set up my newly purchased egg incubator. I've read the entire book, viewed the FAQs and watched all the videos I could find on this model and none of them show how to change the "hatching days" setting. By default it reads zero at set-up, however, any others I've seen start at day 21 and...
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    Where to buy chickens?

    My husband and I have officially moved into the home we purchased in New York. Complete with a large multi stall barn and 15 acres of land. We are ready to start raising chickens, but, finding them is turning out to be rather difficult. As in, I haven't found any. Everyone I have spoken to that...
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    Hello and Lots of newbie questions

    Hi everyone: A brief summary of why I'm here is that I'm moving to an area where I can FINALLY have chickens and have a lot to learn. My parents (deceased) had chickens until I was 8. They also raised meat rabbits, which I have also done for the past 50 years and will continue to do. Both...
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