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    Amounts for fodder/sprouts

    Okay, I don't have a handful of pet chickens. I have better than fifty in my obsession, and feeding all of them is more costly than feeding that high bred cutting horse in my barn. Been researching sprouting and foddering (insert giggle here) as a way to knock some of the shock out of the...
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    exploding eggs

    Ok, that innocent looking bag out there that looked like it held extra egg cartons had eggs in it. I went to toss out the "bag of egg cartons", and eggs ended up in the bed of the pickup. Hubby decides to use his boot to brush them out of the bed of the truck only to come under fire of what...
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    oh no! a mixed hatch...

    I run an ameraucana roo on a mixed layer flock. Stuff got hectic and I didn't pull eggs for a while. Needless to say I had bunches of chicks born last week. I can tell my purebred ameraucana, but I have all these little crossbreds. Are they worth raising as replacement layers or should I have a...
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    does selling eggs really pay the bills?

    I see people all the time on byc claiming that they pay their feed bill by selling their eggs. I have about 30 birds in my main hen house (admittedly too heavy on roos right now thanks to a 13/4 split on some straight run polish). I go through an obscene amount of laying pellets every day...
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    Ideal Red Shouldered Yokohama issues?

    Got my order in last thursday of cuckoo marans, cochins, white leghorns, and red shouldered yokohamas. All chicks are in the same brooder with the same temps, food, water, etc. All chicks were shipped in same box and handled the same way getting them into the brooder. I have lost almost all of...
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    broody accomodations

    I have a good sized hen house with a set of commercially made nest boxes (8 individual stalls in the unit) set approximately waist to chest high on my back wall. This set up is convenient for me to harvest eggs, but I have been wanting to let a broody hen hatch and raise a clutch. There is no...
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    the black crested white polish project

    Not sure if any of you remember, but I posted up last year about ordering some bcw birds to try to breed. The chicks got here, and all 17 have made it to adulthood. They are very consistent in body type, but not consistent in color. I ended up with birds who range anywhere from solid white with...
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    brooder heat lamp

    I have a brooder which is about 14" deep from the wire lid to the wire floor. I have a brooder lamp that I can either set on the wire directly or suspend from a chain to hover above the wire lid. In the past, I have used a 250 watt infra red lamp bulb from the feed store, but they keep burning...
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    wtb long tails in houston tx

    I'm looking to purchase a small order of day old chicks. Prefer phoenix or yokohama. Would need to have the chicks shipped to the houston, tx area OR would love to meet a breeder of long tails locally (within 100 miles or so of houston). Thanks! M
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    wtb black crested white polish

    Looking for either day old chicks or hatching eggs from pretty decent black crested white polish. I am trying to breed for correct specimens, and would certainly entertain swapping chicks at a later date in an effort to improve on what is out there. If you have b.c. white polish but don't have...
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    bc white polish questions

    Well, here I am in round two of my black crested white polish project. The first birds I was working on raising fell victim to a crafty barn rat who was able to squeeze into a little hole in my previous "brooder". For my new run of 14, hubby built me a first class top of the line rat proof...
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    rectifying my false runner problem

    If I were actually to be able to get my hands on some fertile runner duck eggs this fall, is there anything special I need to do to talk my broody buff orpington chicken into hatching them for me? Would I need to separate the hen into a different coop, or could she stay in my main hen house...
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    puzzled - my "indian runner" ducks are grown but...

    I don't think they are indian runners. My husband ordered me 5 black runner hens, a straight run of 5 fawn and white runners and two crested fawn and white runner hens. It's now six months later, and I know for a fact that of the black hens two are Cayuga and three are runners. I'm a little...
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    TX Gulf Coast-lights on chicks?

    Bear with me here, I haven't raised chicks in this kind of heat. Usually I keep my day old chicks under a big brooder lamp positioned at one end of the brooder so they can cool off if needed. Well, we are regularly deep into the 90's every day, and I don't want to cook my Black Crested Whites...
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    cayuga hens-Houston area

    I have two Cayuga hens which I have raised over the last 5 months. $20 each
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    crested runners

    I know there is a potential problem in breeding cresteds, am I safe running two crested hens on a non crested drake? Cheers M
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    sexing young runner ducks

    Hey all, thanks for your comments on my pond/snake question. My next duckie newbie q is how do you sex a young runner duck? Cheers M
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    pond trees and ducks, snakes, etc...

    I have two male ducks in one of my ponds on the farm. Last year, I brought in a couple of oak trees, crepe myrtles, wax myrtles, and a bald cypress to give the pond a little landscaping. Now, I'm wanting to bring in a few more trees and I bought some huge sago palms for the burm. Is there...
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    when can I kill the light?

    My ducklings and their packing peanuts are all still doing great. I ended up losing one packing peanut a couple of weeks back, but no other casualties. They are about 3 weeks old now and hardly use their light at all. When can I kill it for good? I must say that I've been a bit nervous of having...
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    Runner Ducklings doing great

    Well, my first attempt at raising runner ducklings seems to be going well. The "Lings" are growing like wild weeds, and are still getting along okay with their Packing Peanuts which turned out to be red broilers. I guess I lucked into that one. I have a 3 gallon water fount for them, and it is...
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