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    Introduction and my woolly little miniature mutts ‘Serama’

    Good morning I am still figuring out the site and forum posting in general I am more comfortable with a shovel or a toolbox but I like reading about other peoples birds so I thought I would post a few pictures of mine tiny birds I found them advertised as serama on Craigslist and she hatched...
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    New serama baby chicks hatched today! W pictures

    Hatch day is always stressful for an anxious incubator hoverer like myself. 11 eggs down to 6 down to 4 and today one more had expired but thanks to the amazing and helpful forum on this site about helping chicks out of the shell. I never had it go well until today! Armed with a thumb tack...
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    Things I do after thirty years with chickens

    Howdy BYC-ers! This forum was my social outlet ten years ago when I moved home and returned to chickens from the city. A visit to my posts here reminds me how chicken therapy got me through some rough years. I started raising chickens as a kid and I wanted to share my top things that I...
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    Buff CLEAN-LEGGED bantam!

    So firstly, I am aware that this is a hatchery bird, so before I go any further, I am aware that frizzles are not "pure breeds" and that some people don't care for hatchery birds. That being said, please don't post if all you going to do is bash it as a "hatchery mutt". This came in my 25...
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    Eye problem in a BA hen with watery stools

    Hello, I have a Black Australorp hen. She is the largest hen I have and stopped laying about a month ago. Her behavior is normal otherwise, but her stools are sometimes watery-runny with white fluid in them, other times they look like normal clumps. One of her eyes is milky and the other is...
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    Thinking about raising 1 Guinea with chickens!

    Hello guinea lovers! I was fascinated as a child by the Guineas on my grandmother's farm, but they were always far away and usually sleeping high in the trees at night! Recently (ok, this week), I decided I had to have 25 more bantams and a friend asked me to add 6 guineas to the order...
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    Any advice for a grieving gander?

    Something got 'Honey' last night. She was a tufted Roman, aged 4 months. Any advice on what to do to help a grieving gander? He won't eat or drink, he is mute, and all he does is stare and sleep. He normally eats flock raiser, with cracked corn as a treat. I have tried spinach leaves...
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    Ideal Poultry!

    Wow! The Ideal Poultry website shows sold out until "June 2011" for most standard breeds and some even say "sold out until 2012"! I ordered 2 batches in January (25 pullets each) and 2 in February (21 chicks and then 9 chicks and 4 geese). All told, I have ordered 7 times in 6 months. I am...
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    Does anyone want to see a baby dragon?

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    Wanted - 3 or 4 White Chinese Goose hatching eggs

    I would like to try my hand at incubating and raising a few (less than 5) white chinese geese! I am looking for 3-4 hatching eggs, preferably in or near Colorado. Prefer friendly pet-quality parent stock as these will be mainly pets for our family!
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    Addicted to ordering chicks!

    I love the thrill of ordering chicks, not knowing what I am going to get, then the anticipation, the call, the trip to the post office and the thrill of opening the cheeping, wiggling box! I love this, but I think I am becoming addicted to this! I ordered in October, I wanted to add a few (13)...
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    New chick that did not absorb yolk and is spraddled

    Hi, Thank you for reading this, any advice or opinions would be appreciated. The biggest help is realizing that I am not alone in this! I love BYC! I have a chick now 36 hours old that I saw a hernia on as soon as it flipped out of the shell. I left it in the bator for 24 hours, then put a...
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    I got A NORDIC TRACK BOX to use for a brooder!

    I saw a HUGE Nordic track box propped against a trash can on my way to the office this morning! I slowed down, went a bit, slowed again, and then turned around and went back and got it! This thing is HUGE! 8' long, 3' deep and about 1' tall! Both the top and bottom are this size, with the...
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    Food effiency idea - sift chick starter?

    My 4 week old chicks love to scratch in their pine bedding and kick bedding and poo chunks everywhere! Quite a lot of bedding and poo end up in the feeders even though they are elevated to the height of the chicks back's. So everytime I empty the feeders before refilling I sift the food that...
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    whaddaya think? Cornish? Please let her be something interesting!

    No comb to speak of, and bright yellow legs. This chick was in an order of assorted bantams from Ideal hatched October 19th. Not a real friendly chicken, I am amazed that I got this one clear shot. Most of the pictures I got seem to involve a blur as it runs from the camera!
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    Not sure I like what Google suggested for me!

    So I have Gmail and I have heard that Google does not "read" my emails, but they do make suggestions for ads based on key words in my emails (which seems to me to be the same as reading them!) This is what the sidebar read this morning: Ads How I Get Free Eggs Thanks to this website, I never...
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    The girl in the little pink helmet

    On my way to work each day I drive past an Nursing home and then a convenience store. I frequently see a girl (probably in her 30's, but small) who wears a pink helmet. She struggles everyday from the nursing home to the convenience store, where I assume she must make a small purchase, perhaps...
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    What my chickens have done for me. :-)

    Well, tonight having chickens actually brought about a bonding moment - a shared laugh between me and my dad. We don't often laugh, at least not at the same time! Let's back up a few years. I figured out I was gay in high school. My parents figured it out shortly after when they found a...
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    I met a man last night who lives in a cave with a wolf!

    Now that I have your attention, lets talk about my chickens.... KIDDING! I had heard about this young man from a friend who rents rooms to boarders. (Didn't think they still did that, but anyway) One of his former tenants moved out because he bought some LAND. Just land, no house or...
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    Surprise special and this is the mystery breed! What are they?

    I bought a mix of 25 pullets, so I know these are girls, but I have been studying chick pictures and I cannot decide what they are. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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