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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Good shot at it adcgroup. I think it's just a chicken census from what the first post said, though a few ducks and guinea fowl seem to have slipped through, but not many. Maybe a future census would have us putting in our numbers directly to a count without trying to total it up (WAY too many...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Yes, that's the problem with a running total! Best if people just give their own numbers and someone add it all up every few pages.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    pwyll, if you take a look at post #301 at the top of page 31, you'll see someone has already gone to the trouble of going through each page to then. Harry's chick then corrected the total to #317, and I have just given the up-to date corrected total of 7236. So yes, the totals have been all...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Revised TOTAL TO DATE End page 32 total – 6088 End page 33 total – 6734 End page 34 total – 6948 End page 35 total – 7043 TOTAL RIGHT NOW - 7236
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Correct, Harrys chick. Some people have deducted rather than added, some aren't adding theirs to the total and some are adding to an earlier total (maybe not browser refreshing before hitting submit?). The last correct total was at #317.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    + 3 ISA Brown hens (The total is wrong. Best if someone else does the add-ups)
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    Mealworm farming

    It wasn't weevil webs was it? Don't know if they eat mealworm larvae, but they sure love bran and make little cobwebs.
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    I think I found a miracle cure for feather picking

    hillbillyfarmer, you've reminded me of another study I found recently. Commercial chickens have their beaks cut down to reduce injury from pecking, and now I know why. The study put full-beaked chickens into little commercial egg laying cages from age 17 - 24 weeks, and full-beaked chickens...
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    I think I found a miracle cure for feather picking

    Another thought azygous - I've been hunting through formal studies of feather pecking in chickens and found an interesting result of one study (though long and boring to read right through). It had two lots of birds, the first had an indoor and outdoor undercover area with no green feed with...
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    I think I found a miracle cure for feather picking

    Have you changed anything else lately, new feed or new birds? To get a better idea of what's going on, yes, you're probably right to continue on the Forco through seasonal changes to see what happens. Are you still writing things down? In a year or so you won't be able to remember these...
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    Mealworm farming

    You don't need a lot of exposure to get a reaction. I've only tipped the whole lot into another container and spent 20 minutes sorting through to remove dead worms in my kitchen, and could see (and smell) a little fine dust as I tipped them out. Inhaling even that amount was enough to bring on...
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    Mealworm farming

    Well that explains it, itchy nose, sneezing, dry cough since I tipped the mealworms into another tub and sorted through for dead ones. I could smell it so was definitely inhaling stuff. Thanks for mentioning that Slinglings and WillsC. I'll use a mask and do it outside next time.
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    It looks like your girl is sorting out her new laying routine starting with a funny eggshell. This is a good reference for some common shell differences, which you find by scrolling down the page a bit. http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/979/maintaining-egg-shell-quality
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Yes 29gms IS small! And what a beautiful shape it is.
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    How small is the egg? Hard to tell if that's a little person's hand.
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    Mealworm farming

    Ooops. That's how we made out experimental outdoor oven, painted it black and put it in the sun. Way too hot for anything to survive in.
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    I'll show you mine if you show me yours - Coops that is! :)

    What an amazing difference that lick of paint made. It looks great!
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    wakeboard

    Well thank you for explaining that intowin. It sounds like massive fun with some skill involved.
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    wakeboard

    No-one else seems brave enough to ask, so I will. What is wakeboard?
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    What type of (liquid?) Corid is safe for chicks? Med. feed too, or no?

    Thanks for those links dawg53. I must say I'm unimpressed with your FDA's safety regulations, but there you go. No withholding period in the U.S. when most other countries are firm about it...wow. I guess if someone developed a lifethreatening thiamine deficiency from it, as horses are prone...
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