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    Never Buying Chicks From (our) TSC Again! (Help Identifying this breed, please!)

    This year I bought a bunch of chicks at our small town TSC. They had misidentified all but the Red sex links! lol I bought a couple dozen cornish rock meat birds.....they gave me 18 big, doofy meat birds and the rest were quite small, comparatively. They assured me they were just the...
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    Buff Orpington Duck Eggs

    This is a Buy It Now sale, please PM me if you are interested. I am overflowing with Buff Orpington Duck eggs and am offering 1 dozen eggs, plus any extras laid, for $12. Shipping will be $15 in a large priority box. Like their chicken counterparts, these ducks lay well and are great broody...
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    Duck With an Injured Leg

    I have four Buff Orpington ducks, 2 male and 2 female. About a week ago one of my female's was limping. I checked out her foot to see if she had a thorn (we get some wicked thorns here in the NM desert) but found nothing. Her leg seemed slightly swollen but no discernible wound and her leg...
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    Not Turning Shipped Eggs For the First Three Days....Why?

    I have read, in the past, posts from folks who said they did not turn eggs that had been shipped for the first three days after setting them. I am wondering if anyone can tell me the reasons why. I just set shipped silkie eggs and am planning to not turn them for the first three days and...
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    Chick Hatched With a Fluid Filled Sac (Not the yolk sac)...Picture Posted

    It looks like the skin around his tummy/rear and sort of toward his leg is filled with a clear fluid. He is as lively as can be and is just dragging it all around the incubator. I have put him into an empty incubator with a placemat on the bottom to keep him from snagging the sac. I am hoping...
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    Can Anyone Help Me Identify The Breed of These Ducks?

    Hello! Earlier this spring my husband brought home these four little ducks from our local feed store. He was told they were Indian Runner Ducks, which we knew was not true as we had those once upon a time. We didn't really care what kind they were, he got them for our littlest kids because...
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    Kefir Grains and Kombucha Cultures

    I have Kefir grains available. They are being raised on raw goats milk, but readily adapt to milk of all kinds. I also have Kombucha cultures (scobies). Have questions? Email me for more info and availability. Patches
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    Kefir Grains and Kombucha Cultures

    I have Kefir grains available. They are being raised on raw goats milk, but readily adapt to milk of all kinds. I also have Kombucha cultures (scobies). Have questions? Email me for more info and availability. Patches
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    Kefir Grains and Kombucha Cultures

    I have Kefir grains available. They are being raised on raw goats milk, but readily adapt to milk of all kinds. I also have Kombucha cultures (scobies). Have questions? Email me for more info and availability. Patches
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    SILKIES....Why The Bad Reputation?

    I live in a community of small towns where most folks with chickens, goats, horses and other livestock tend to interact a lot. We all end up buying and selling stock or equipment from one another. Well, a friend of mine had Silkie chicks for sale and I brought home 15 of them almost all of...
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    Sick 2 month old BCM Chicks/Help Please

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. Black Copper Maran chicks 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Lethargy, in-coordination, not eating/drinking, death 3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? First one ten days ago, one a few days later, one this morning and another one this...
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    A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Nesting Box...

    Yesterday we hard boiled some eggs that were getting too old to sell. I peeled them and sent my 10 year old DD out to throw them to the hens. When I feed back hardboiled eggs I sort of squish them first and give them a toss, so they are eating something that doesn't look like an egg. I don't...
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    Spraddle Leg/What To Do?

    I had my worst hatch ever 2 days ago. I managed to hatch 16 out of 30 eggs in spite of the fact that my stupid LG's temps kept fluctuating wildly at the end. Most of the chicks that made it out by themselves seem healthy enough, but for the first time I have two chicks who are spraddle legged...
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    15 Minute Temp Spike/Is all lost? We have Pippage!!!

    We are on day 20 of our hatch and last night 15 after I had checked my incubator temps/humidity on four incubators, I saw that my LG had risen to 106 degrees for no apparent reason. YIKES! Does that mean all of my babies were cooked? We immediately opened up the incubator and cooled them off...
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    What In The World Is WRONG With LG Incubators???

    Or, should I say WHAT ISN'T wrong? I think ours is possessed. Currently we have four incubators running with a total of about 200 eggs. We have remote thermometers in our incubators so we can track them in our kitchen. We are in the habit of checking the temps unconsciously every so often...
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    Serama Eggs 24+

    I am offering 2 dozen of my Serama eggs (plus any extra's) to be mailed out Monday or Tuesday of next week. I usually mail eggs out on Monday and Wednesday as long as the little ladies provide them. I have had excellent results incubating and hatching these little eggs. So have the folks who...
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    BCM Chicks are On Their Way!

    After a series of mishaps, my BCM chicks are on their way. They were supposed to ship as hatchlings, but are at least 2 weeks old now....maybe a bit older! I have wanted them for such a long time. I am hoping and praying they all make it here in good shape! We have plans to call the PO at...
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    Bantam Lavender Ameraucana Breeding Question

    I just set 27 Bantam Lavender Ameraucana eggs into my incubator. I am thrilled about the possibility of hatching some of these beautiful little birds! I traded some of my eggs for these BLA eggs and only just realized that I do not really understand how to breed them to keep the Lavender...
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    wtb: Black Langshan LF Eggs

    Had some problems with a coyote last fall and need to replenish my flock of Black Langshan's. (Large Fowl) Really don't want to stoop to buying from a hatchery. lol Does anyone have any eggs for sale? Thanks so much! Deb
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    The Neccessity of Egg Turning?

    I am not sure this is the forum to post this question, but decided to since the question is actually about turning eggs. I have a bare bones incubator, still air, no turner (LG) that gave me fits keeping the temps stable. I tried not to open it unless I really had to. I had a successful hatch...
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