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    Weight and breeding rabbits

    I’ve read different opinions on when it’s the right time to breed your doe for the first time. One I see the most is her age and weight. My doe is a LionLop, roughly 15 weeks old. And while she’s not age appropriate to breed yet (I believe) she’s past weight appropriate. Last week she weighed...
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    Rescued turkeys

    I will probably be acquiring a pair of turkeys within the next couple weeks from a neighbor. A slate tom and I’m not sure what the hen is. They will have to be housed with my chickens temporarily until I can get them a coop of their own built. Right now the only feed ration they get is cracked...
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    Genetics can be wild

    Back in the winter I bought several eggs from a friend to hatch. Two of those eggs came from the same pair of chickens. A showgirl rooster with a turken hen. I know when you cross those two together there no telling what you could get, and I have proof of that! These two roosters, I call them...
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    Silkie and Showgirl chicks

    I have a mixture of black and paint silkie and showgirls, as well as the oddball silver partridge silkie. They are 4 1/2 weeks old. These were project chicks so they could have leakage as adults. Parents were silver partridge silkie rooster over paint showgirl hens. ***please note the silver...
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    Surprise in the coop this morning!

    I know that egg shell colors can't exactly change but my eyes have witnessed a different theory. I have five hens, one is easter egger/rhode island, three are easter egger/golden comet, and the other one is easter egger/black sex link. The comet and sex link offspring lay a muddied greenish...
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    Polish and Silkie roosters

    I have three WCB Polish Bantam Roosters for sale. They will be six months old in October so still very young and vibrant. These are NOT hatchery birds and very good quality breeders, I just have too many! They do have a bald spot on the back of their head from being together, I have no place to...
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    All those extra roosters

    What does one do with all those extra roosters? I have 18, yes 18! I've tried to sell them locally posting ads everywhere and pricing them super cheap just to move them.... Nothing. Not one response! And they are currently raising my feed bill beyond measures so they need to go quickly... Sent...
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    So I've found a feed mix....

    Last time I visited my local feed mill to buy feed I ordered laying pellets on the inside but there was a new guy loading outside and he gave me the wrong feed. I didn't realize this until I was home and tore into the bag. I've always just fed scratch grains and laying pellets, for many years...
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    Air sac on the wrong end?

    I have 8 Turkey eggs in the incubator and when I candled them the air sacs are on the pointy end. Will this cause problems? I just brought them inside and put them my incubator yesterday. But by the way that they look they are about 18-22 days into incubation.
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    First time hatching Guineas, color question

    This is my first time ever hatching Guineas and I'm loving it! But I am stumped on this one. I was going for pieds but came up with a silver/blue Guinea keet. The colors that I have are pearls (a few have white wings) and solid white Guineas. One of my pearl roosters has a white chest. But I'm...
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    Need a bit of quick advise!

    My eggs are on day 18 and I've been candling every 2-3 days to make sure everything is on track. About 3 days ago I noticed a rotten smell coming from my incubator, today I smelled of each egg and found the one. And its the one that I *think* had two babies in it. When I candled last night I'm...
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    Price of goslings

    This is my first time raising geese. I have an African gander, buff pom goose and three of their offspring. I was wondering how much to sell the goslings for. Right now she's setting on 35+ eggs. And would they be considered mutt geese? They look like an African except their necks are darker...
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    Time for eggs yet?

    I know each individual Guinea starts to lay at their own time. But mine are 10 months old and I still have no eggs yet. How old was your Guineas when they started laying? And is this unusual?
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    Barred Rock with slight Crele coloring?

    This is my barred rock rooster. He was given to me so I don't have much background info on him. You can see on his wings the slight reddish orange color. He also has this on the other side, and the back of his neck. What do you guys think? Also, I am breeding him to white leghorn hens. What...
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    When do geese start laying?

    Some geese was given to me last May. One adult African gander, one adult buff Pomeranian saddleback goose, their year old offspring, and two, three week old goslings. I know the two older females should lay this year, but people are already getting eggs from their geese and I was wondering when...
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    Time to set my eggs!!

    Set date is going to be January 14th! I thought I'd do a run a chicks before my Guineas started laying. Because I said I was only going to raise Guineas and geese this year, but you can see how far that went! The dad is a barred rock, the moms are white leghorns. This is the first ones I've...
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    Red Wolves? Really? *UPDATE* Now its black coyotes! pg. 5

    The past couple of days I have found unusual wolf like footprints near my chickens and geese. I have done research and ruled out the number one predator here, coyotes. There is no way a coyote's foot can be this big! The wildlife agencies have released red wolves near here, and they say that...
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    Kiko Goats!

    For anyone who has kikos, or would like to share info about them. Post your pics!! This is Snowball. He is a big ole baby! Giving me a wink He does this all the time, but has never hit anyone
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    My Button Quail!

    These are my two button quail. I started out with 36, but I couldn't keep up with that many.. I decided to keep a pair as pets in the house. They live in a rabbit cage, it has a ramp with a platform at the top. Their 'hut' is up there. I keep a box of sand for them to bathe in. They love...
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    Uh-oh! Not the right color!!

    I set some eggs under my broody silver duckwing. 3 white leghorn x barred rock and 1 fawn duckwing egg. When I candled them 1 of the large eggs wasn't fertile so I threw it out. About a week later I discovered a hole in one of the other large eggs, baby was in there, but had already died. So...
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