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    you know you kids are addicted to chickens when......(add your storry)

    When my kids wanted to stop trick or treating right on halloween last year NOW and go home because we forgot to shut up the coop before we left and they were more worried somebody would eat their chickens than they were about getting a full candy bucket !
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    The Duggars and #19!

    My great grandmother on my dads side , amish had 22 children, loved everyone to death as well as each of her grandkids , great grandkids and great greats . She was still having kids when her oldest children were married and having kids . My dad has many aunts and uncles younger than he as he was...
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    Anyone else really disappointed in PineTree Seed Co. this year?

    My corn didn't like the cool weather we had this year , not sure I'd blame that on the seed company, corn needs warm soil as well as rain to germinate and grow properly. Almost everybody i know in this areas corn either didn't do well or had to be completely replanted and even the field corn is...
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    How'd you grow up?

    Growing up with little money I think prepared me for what's to come Absolutely dear ... you will grow up with a good work ethic and appreciate what you do have and not expect stuff handed to you throughout your life . You will be an awesome , self reliant person . Thank your parents for that
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    Here's your sign....

    Work with an 18 year old girl that didn't know pickles were made from cucumbers..........thought they were different veggies
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    Do electrical storms cause performance anxiety ?

    I had 10 yesterday so it wasn't a gradual decline it was just * poof * nothing and I'd never seen it before and had to ask ! Thought it couldnt be coincidence ! mmmmmmmm Indiana corn
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    Do electrical storms cause performance anxiety ?

    Normally we get 9 - 13 eggs a day . Today it stormed, thundered, poured, lightning all day and I got a grand total of 1 egg and that 1 egg was from the chicken currently in the HOUSE in a rubbermaid tub due to dog injuries on her bum. Granted they were big storms , but I've never had a ZERO...
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    Dog attack today , wounded girl, advice please

    Neither wound bled hardly at all horsejody and suzannaski, yup u spelled that right. She is doing great today , perky , wants out , eating, laid an egg so I didnt even give her aspirin today . Keeping an eye on the wounds for infection but so far so good. Thanks all
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    help!!! just got 2 severely malnourished hens

    The coloring on the comb could be from a case of frostbite .. especially if they had inadequate housing .. I've seen this before escpecially on roos , when I was a kid our banty roos always ended up with frostbite combs , if severe they may lose part of the comb, milder case just discolors the...
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    Sick Pullett and a dog that ate mouse poison!

    We had a dog die from eating that . do call the vet , needs vita K or may hemmorhage internally.
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    Dog attack today , wounded girl, advice please

    The wound hasnt bled hardly at all so i think it'll be okay for her to have the ASA. and yupppp numbskulls
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    Dog attack today , wounded girl, advice please

    Yes , jj , i did get lidocaine free ointment , i did know they couldnt have that . We have gatoraide and some cantaloupe , i'll try those.
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    Dog attack today , wounded girl, advice please

    Thank you for answering . It is sad for the dogs and not their fault. I was even mad they attacked the chicken , knowing in many dogs , hunting is an instinct , bred in even sometimes as a desired trait. What really tinked me was them going after my kids!! Another neighbour told me today...
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    Dog attack today , wounded girl, advice please

    Neighbour has a bunch of dogs ( 4) pitt father, terrier mother , 2 offspring grown, which escaped their yard today . I saw them surrounding the chickenyard and started screaming dog! and me and the boys barreled for coop. One of our chickens is a persistant escape artist despite docked feathers...
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    An Amish man stole my poop bucket! rant!

    As somebody who has amish relatives...there are some amish that drive( called beachy amish here, my paternal grandfather and family were such). Dress exactly like old order amish , but drive. Also here , some are allowed by their church to keep drivers licenses to drive work vehicles by their...
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    Have you ever come across this?? Pic.

    You really should enter that in a contest ! I concur with the others great pic
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    For those who say "just give them some eggs"

    We have crabby neighbours we started giving eggs to every week and they are a lot less crabby now and brought me 3 huge cabbages yesterday , which was great cuz mine aren't ready yet!
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    I have eggs coming out of my ears!

    Local food pantry would probably take them if you can't eat em but it's hard to believe nobody else wants to eat em!
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    5 week old chick , mass ? tumor? Been waiting 3 hrs,can't anybody help

    Bag says for chickens and ducks but i'll switch to the starter grower which is 20 % and watch her and see how she acts and if it gets bigger or she stops eating and drinking or being active before i freak out and try to see if it needs to be lanced. Had no problem with the same starter for 17...
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