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    old member back from hiatus

    hello again! I have been a member of the site for ears, come an check things out here and ther but haven't posted in a long time. I posted new thread awhile ago, butI see it has not been read and isn't in bold print like the other posts. Sis I do something wrong? Do I need t post more...
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    Limping hens

    I have three RSL hens, just a little over a year old that all started limping suddenly. I noticed one on Saturday, and two more on Monday. The firs tone was getting picked on pretty bad, so I moved her to a different coop, and then added the two others when I saw them limping. they seem to be...
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    What's a "good" weight?

    I bought 3 CX birds earlier this spring- Just to try them and see if it's worth it for us to raise them ourselves. We butchered yesterday- so they were 7 weeks give or take a day. All three dressed out just over 5#. Is that a good size? I didn't know what to expect at that age really...
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    What wen twrong?

    I have been hatching chicks for about a year now in my hovabator and Lg... I never had an egg turner until this spring, but haven't had too much problems until now. My last two hatches I have had problems with the chicks pipping and even zipping but then some of them die before hatching. I had...
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    Chickens eat....FROGS?

    I had to laugh this morning. I was doing chores inside the coop, and heard the weirdest noises going on in the run. The was this poor frog... trying to hop, with the girls chasing him, pecking at him and ripping him apart... needless to say, he croaked- and I was too grossed out to retreive...
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    sticky chicks?

    Yesterday was hatch day... out of 32 eggs that made it to lockdown I got: 20 that hatched no problem late Saturday and thoughout yesterday, and are eatingup a storm and pooping like crazy.; 2 that hatched over last night and are still in the incubator and seem ok 2 eggs started to hatch...
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    AM I a silkie?...TSC teeny bopper argued with me...

    I got six of these little critters last night along with three meaties. I have wanted slikies for awhile now, so I was really excited to see them in the bantam bin. Black beaks, legs, and skin...the beginnings of little poofy heads, five toes, feathered legs... The kid working there said"...
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    marking eggs

    I set some eggs last Sunday mostly to see if my roo is fertile enough yet to get serious about my RSL hatching project, before seperate him and my SLW hens. So I put about 3 doz mixed breed random eggs in my hovabator- (no fan, but I have had good luck with it before) Temps are good 99-100 the...
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    Fianlly processed some quail

    Well- I have been saying I was gonna do it, and finally did this weekend. We processed all 14 of the A&M's, and all but three jumbo brown males, so 25 in all. It was our first time, so it took awhile- about 3 hours from starting outside to the end of clean up in the kitchen. I didn't think...
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    Will my quail be tough now?

    I have a bunch of cotournix quail that I have been putting off butchering, mostly because hubby and daughter have been so busy, and I am happy to pluck, gut, wash and cook, just not the actual killing. They are almost 5 mos old- will they be tough now? They are strictly grain fed, and housed...
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    Coq au vin anyone?

    I just recently invested in a very nice enameled cast iron dutch oven and was hoping to make something extra special in it for the first use. So, I decided on coq au vin as the maiden voyage so to speak. The traditional recipe calls for mature roosters- of which I have two in my freezer, but...
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    feathers everywhere!

    I am raising A&M and Jumbo Brown quail. Theyare approx 10 weeks old. They are separated by breed in outside pens similar to rabbit hutches with and indoor space with hay and outdoor space that is hardware cloth. For the past few days have noticed feathers all over the place in the pens and...
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    Which ones should go?

    I have a bunch of coturnix quail that are about 6 weeks old I can tell that the Jumbo Brown roos to hens ratio is very high, so we will be culling the extras. (there ar ealso a bunch of A&M that we will need to worry about later- I understand they are very hard to sex). My question is- How...
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    Question about roosters...

    I have a young roo, not quite 6 months old. Yesterday, I took a treat of stale bread to my flock, and the roo attacked... I mean feathers on his neck up, wing feathers beating, squawking and claws out attacked the bread bag! He didn't do anything to me, just the bag, and was fine again when I...
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    Question on air cells of shipped eggs

    I received some eggs in the mail on Friday. they were packed super carefully, and all arrived without any breaks cracks, or anything like that. however- I did notice that when I was doing a quick candling to make sure there were no cracks before I set them on Saturday, the the air cells seem...
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    Hatch day is tomorrow...and I hear peeping!

    I am so excited! this is my first hatch. Eggs were set Saturday June 16 around 5 pm....I had to take the sponges out of my incubator this am, because it was really steamy in there, so I peeked at an agg... a no-no, I know... but I didn't touch it, just shined the flashlight through one. I...
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    Incubator emergency! Is there any hope?

    I am on day 9 of my hatch in a hovabator. Just candled last night and saw movement in all 14 of my eggs that were still there(I had three cracked and one non fertile) .... and around 1 am... the power went out. As soon as I realized it at 6:30 this morning, I bundled them up and took them to my...
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    humidity?

    I am incubating for the first time. I opted to just get a cheap incubator for now, so I got the hovabator still air one. I purchased a digital thermometer/hygrometer with a probe and tested it against my big (and expensive) indoor/outdoor weather station. The temp and humidity of both were the...
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    Those ungreatful broads!

    We finally got the addition on our coop finished to the point where we could fence off half of our original coop and run to accomodate our 8 week old babies while they get used to each other. Our plan is to remove the wire barrier in a couple of weeks. the babies' area is where the big girls...
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    Mystery chick- Breed and Gender please!

    This ugly little bugger is my free mystery chick from McMurray... It is 6 1/2 weeks old, has feathered feet, sweet as can be, and is by far the homeliest chick I have ever seen. anybody know what it is? I was thinking maybe a dark brahma, but I have no idea....It is mostly grey fuzz... still...
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