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  1. TheHalfWayCoop

    Liquid Choropyhll or Red Raspberry Leaf in water?

    I was just wondering if anyone did, or had heard of, putting either liquid chloropyhll or red raspberry leaf tea in their chickens water? My chickens don't get out into the grass much in the winter, and what is there in the winter is definitely brown, now we just bought liquid chlorophyll for...
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    Please Tell Me About Your Livestock Guardian

    We finally moved to our little 'farmette' a few weeks ago and are thinking we really need a LGD to keep the chickens/kids/ and possibly any other livestock (we're thinking sheep/alpacas or small cattle) together, as well as the coyotes, etc... away. It sounds dumb (okay, maybe not dumb to this...
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    What Happened to our chicks (Disappearing)

    Our silkie broodies hatched four chicks out last week and were living with them in a sectioned off brooder in the coop. No one has been getting in, and no one has been getting out of it, but of the two chicks that were remaining (two were unwell and died earlier this week) the other two have...
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    Could this be Newcastle Disease?

    We got our first ever 'flock' in May '11, never had any problems, excellent layers, they do free range, etc... we added four more to our flock in October, everyone seemed okay, all was well. Our first set of chickens started laying in the fall and by November went broody. Two broodies hatched...
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    Something is def wrong with my chick - any advice?

    We have three two day old chicks in our brooder. Up until 20 minutes ago everyone was happy, eating, drinking, sleeping, no problems! I started to hear a raucus and went to see what was up and one of the chicks' back keeps arching and it's head keeps extending over it's back with it's one leg...
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    Are there any alternatives to a heat lamp?

    We have four silkie babies that are a day old, but the broody hen seems to be pecking them a lot and throwing them out from under her. Stupid us didn't have a brooder ready because we thought mama would take care of them, and if not her, than our other broody, but that doesn't appear to be the...
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    Why didn't anyone warn me that brand new chicks are adorable?!

    We just had three silkie babies hatch, one is all fluffed out now, and I have to say 1) I've never seen a brand new chick before, so I'm surprised how tiny they are and 2) I can see this becoming a problem as I will want to experience this fluffy butt adorableness over and over and over and...
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    How long from peep to pip is normal?

    First, hearing peeping from inside an egg is the most surreal thing I've ever heard! Second, I'm not worried yet, as I just heard them peeping and know they weren't peeping this morning, but how long is it safe for them to be in their egg peeping away with no external pips to allow more air in...
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    Should I be taking this chick away?

    We had one little silkie baby hatch tonight, but it looks like it hatched early as it's eyes aren't even open (then again, I have zero knowledge as to what a chick should look like), it was under the one broody (there are two in this nest) and still had the bottom half of it's egg attached by...
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    How much wood do you use in a season?

    We got the farm we applied for last week but are very interested in trying to heat it mostly with the woodstove, which we have no experience with. I'm home during the day, so I'll be there to babysit it. We also have small children so it the house would have to be kept at about 68. The...
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    No chicks for us this go :(

    We ended up with three broody hens this go around who wanted to share one nest, which had worked out fine (they'd divided it into three smaller nests with eggs in each) we had three on day 20 today and eight that were day 11, now all of them are stone cold (I hadn't been out since this morning...
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    Air Cell Gone - Sign of Quiter?

    Out of eight fertile eggs, two have made it to day 15, the other six simply didn't develope. One egg is doing wonderfully, it has movement and it's air cell looks lovely. The other one I dropped a couple days ago Part of the shell 'shattered' but didn't break the membrane so I used clear...
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    What other sites and/or message boards do you visit?

    I love BYC and am here daily, but I know a lot of people on here are interested in other livestock/gardening/farming/etc... and wondered what other forums, sites, or even blogs you frequent because I'm always looking for more to read. A poster posted yesterday about the self sufficiency forum...
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    Things to expect living in the country.

    This is sort of a weird post... but DH and I are going to go look at a farm Friday that would put us 'out there' a bit. Mind you, we wouldn't be more than a 20 minute drive from a convenience store, or gas station I don't think, but I'm thinking of things like, what to expect from using oil to...
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    Is there someone to buy fertile eggs for hatching that ship to Canada?

    We'd like to introduce a few new colour lines into our silkies and my daughters really want to hatch them out, I'm thinking we're going to buy a Brinsea Advance, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of anywhere that will ship the eggs to Canada? I would like to avoid any costly paper work, or even...
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    Possible chick hatching in a few weeks, should we brood them?

    Our silkie decided to go broody this week and is now sitting on a clutch of 12 eggs. These are our first chickens (and had actually only been getting eggs from them for about a month LoL Brats!!) and while we did get these guys as chicks they were about 3 weeks old and we lived in an old house...
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    Our broody silkie stealing other hens eggs?

    Our silkie went broody after laying for a month She had been storing up a nest of six and had rolled them all to the next box a couple days ago. She shares this box with her sister and now everytime her sister goes in and lays an egg our broody rolls it underherself with the rest... should we...
  18. TheHalfWayCoop

    How long to let 'bullying' go on?

    I'm sure that isn't the right wording... we had a family of four silkies (3 pullets and a roo, all siblings) and added four white silkies (3 pullets and a roo, all siblings as well), we decided to integrate our flock much sooner than the 1 month lock down as we know where the whites came from...
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    How to feed a mixed age flock

    We picked up some more silkies lastnight and were under the impression that they were 'chickens', not chicks. They looked slightly smaller than our almost 7 month old pullets so I was thinking maybe a month or two younger. I got them home and into the light and they are WAY smaller, probably...
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    Silkie Hen Sitting Away From Flock?

    My silkie hen who hasn't had any other medical issues is now sitting on the ground away from the rest of the flock. My kids were out in the coop earlier and I don't know if someone tripped over one, dropped something, etc... because no one's owning up to doing anything they think could have...
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