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  1. Irishhenman

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    If you ever look at the bottom of a normal hens feather, they have a sort of down at the base of the feather. Silkies have a genetic fault that means that the whole feather is like that down
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    Omelet fencing

    If you don't need it to look good, you will save a lot of money by just buying a role of chicken wire and cutting some branches to 3-4' in length to use as supports. Omlet fencing is not secure enough for a full time run (either is chicken wire), a fox would go through it with little or no...
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    What breed and gender are these ????

    Technically they can change their gender if a hens ovarys gets damaged, but they cannot change their sex. this means that a hen can start looking and acting like a cockerel but will never have make sexual organs.
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Most geography thought today, in my country anyway, is physical and social geography. Things like how a waterfall or a volcano is formed, weather and climate and migration/settlement patterns. To be honest there is very little need to know where everything is anymore, with google and such. But I...
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    The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

    I am trying to do my pullet selections now. Next year I want to breed for markings, my original stock was gotten last year from someone who bred more for utility than for show and their markings are very bad. I am going to get a cockerel from a man who breeds the same line for show in a couple...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    I just has someone tell me, really tell me like they knew what they were talking about, that rabbits are poultry
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    For someone hatching for the first time get a broody hen. If you have a good one she will do all the work for you and raise the chicks and all you need to do is give her a small house to herself and feed them. Incubators are a lot of trouble if you are only hatching small numbers of chicks and...
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    My attempt at raising chickens

    What would you consider a natural diet?
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    Sand, pine shavings, wood chips....oh my!

    I use the Balfour system for my main run. The coop is in a scratching run, and that run is connected to 2-3 other grass runs. You could have your run like the scratching run that I have. Basically you treat it like a compost pile. You put in what ever organic material is available to you, like...
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/FREE-SHIPPING-48-EGGS-INCUBATOR-DIGIITAL-AUTOMATIC-TURNER-HATCHER-/201137983244?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed4c20f0c No, it is this type of incubator that needs to be avoided. If I were you I would go for an r-com or brinsea incubator, they are much more reliable brands
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    http://store.farmfowl.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=38_39 The ones on this site aren't too bad. I have heard good reports about them. Make sure you aren't buying the cheap yellow incubator that goes under loads of names including super hatch. I know people who have had those incubators go...
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    Anyone in Ireland?

    Taken from the dept of agriculture website IMPORT OF POULTRY AND HATCHING EGGS Imports of poultry and hatching eggs from EU Member States are permitted under EU trade rules. An import licence issued by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food must accompany the poultry/ eggs along with...
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    First Chicken & First Coop!

    Instead of the wire on the bottom of the run, could you cut the wire down the middle until you are a few feet from either end then cut parallel to the ends. Then fold the wire so that it is on the ground outside of the run. It will stop diggers getting in and let your chickens scratch and dust...
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    Chaos in the coop - is it too early for moulting?

    Mounting around now would be considered normal here, nothing to be worried about
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    7'x15' coop

    10' by 10' minimum, but bigger is better. Have a look on fowl.ie and irishfowl.com, you will get advice more suited to the irish climate
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    7'x15' coop

    A 4'x4' house would do you then, maybe a 5'x5' if you want more space. Then make the biggest run you can.
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    animals in the chicken coop good or bad?

    Ducks and chickens are ok if the run is big enough to stay dry with the ducks, at least 100 square feet per bird of run space so that the ducks can have their wet area but the rest of the run will stay dry. Chickens don't like a wet run but ducks do like it. Rabbits could also share the run but...
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    nest boxes

    8-9 should be fine, can't help with the guineas though.
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    7'x15' coop

    I live in Ireland too, a lot of the "space rules" you will se on this site are for people who have hot summers and a couple of feet of snow in winter. We don't get much snow at all so our hen houses don't need to be near as big because the hens will spend little or no time in the house except...
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    Taking out feathers

    I left in the feather because I wasn't sure if there was a blood supply in the feather. the judge told me I should have pulled it out, but he got 4th anyway so I was still happy. I don't think it would have made much of a difference in the end.
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