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    Buckeye Breed Thread

    Quote: We just love ours. I was pleasantly surprised at how smart they were, and as free-range, they do an amazing job on bugs! Maybe I'll get a straight run of females in January/Feb and get the roos a few months later so they're ready to slaughter in the fall. We'll let our current girls...
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    Buckeye Breed Thread

    I have a small flock of Buckeyes that are just about 4 years old now. We bought a dozen female chicks from Meyer's to see if raising chickens suited us, and it did. We love our girls! We have lost a couple of the original flock, and acquired a couple of strays, a leghorn female and a gorgeous...
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    Aftercare for chicken dragged by raccoon

    Thanks, I wasn't sure if I could just use my plain old neosporin, although now that I've looked at the other threads I see it's recommended. Certainly it's a LOT easier to do when she isn't all upset due to a near miss and we can bribe her with a favorite treat. She did really well today...
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    Aftercare for chicken dragged by raccoon

    We heard alarmed clucking from our chickens late last night and being as we're rural, my husband went straight out with flashlight and big ole stick. A raccoon had managed to bust into the coop and was trying to drag away one of the chickens. Raccoon was chased off, his/her chicken dinner...
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    We are apparently chick(en) magnets...

    He seems very healthy and good-natured, we've checked him out as much as possible for the moment and are watching for lice and mites--we have the powder for those if need be.
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    We are apparently chick(en) magnets...

    This time a rooster has shown up. We think he's a stray also, when we were trying to find the owners of our white chicken, a couple of people told my husband that there was a rooster running free in the woods nearby, and he apparently finally tracked down the hens. So... he looks kind of like a...
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    What is it?

    If she doesn't get claimed, of course we'll keep her--we've a dozen Buckeyes, what's one more chicken? LOL! The foolish thing is trying to fly into the kitchen window again as I type.. we put the carrier next to the coop, I'm hoping she'll head into it so we can get her in for the night. Our own...
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    What is it?

    On Friday night at about 10:30, I heard a noise that I at first thought was the feral cats bickering. A few seconds later I realized it was a chicken! "Honey, there's a very upset chicken out there!" I told my husband. "Ours are in, and I counted them," he said. When I insisted, he gave me the...
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    My roomate did a nice drawing of one of our Buckeyes

    It's up for sale on Ebay Thought I would mention it here because I know there are fellow Buckeye fans here!
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    Our very first eggs!

    We were so excited I just had to come and post a picture! I'm a little surprised, those eggs seem more like large/extra large rather than the medium we expected, but then again, the girls are very healthy and very large themselves, LOL!
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    Contest Ended - When Will We Hit 22,222 Members? Guess Right & Win!

    1/28/09
  12. Zola

    Question about coop floors

    Quote: Ooh, that's a GREAT idea--this floor would be a hair under 10' x 10' so it would be very doable. It would be really nice if 3/4 plywood would be enough, as I said, my neighbor's floor was particleboard, and low-grade at that, so the minute it got moist in there, the stuff just started...
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    Question about coop floors

    Neighbor had particleboard on the floor, that's why I'm asking about the plywood.
  14. Zola

    Question about coop floors

    My neighbor has tried to keep ducks, chickens, and turkeys every year since I moved here and lost them all to predators. A huge part of the problem is her coop just isn't sturdy, this last set of birds were lost to predators who came right through the floor. We don't want to make that mistake...
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    Hi all

    Quote: Thanks! We love them, we were really surprised at how bright and personable they are. I don't know how well they would fare in a chicken tractor, they do like to run around, and they are very fast, LOL! We notice very distinct personalities in our flock, there are several that just...
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    Species sharing spaces...an old time question

    Quote: Part of the reason we decided to get chickens in the first place was because we have a lot of deer, and we knew that the chickens would help protect the goats we planned on getting from meningeal worm by eating the snails and slugs that are the intermediate host. Given that I've kept...
  17. Zola

    Cats and Chooks

    What a great picture--at first look, I thought the cat was a chicken too, LOL!
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    Finally caught the mystery 'beast'

    I'm so sorry you lost your chickens, but oh, he's beautiful!
  19. Zola

    Cats and Chooks

    This is Charcoal and three of the girls and the compost pile with freshly-removed litter on it. This is Arioch--I grabbed the camera because he was lying down and there were about four chickens foraging around him. My roommate didn't realize I was snapping a picture, and when he came over of...
  20. Zola

    Hi all

    I'm Zola, I live in Weston, WV, and we have a flock of Buckeyes, they were offically six months old today. I'm very much enjoying this forum, there's a lot of good info here!
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