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    Setting eggs Today due 3/11, anyone wanna hatch with me? We got chicks

    I'm setting BBS Ameracaunas tonight! I'm excited, but cautious. I haven't had good luck with shipped eggs.
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    Number of chicks/ens you really plan on having... really..

    My coop can house 6 standards comfortably. I planned on 4 hens through the winter, 1 was mean, so I have 3. I planned on getting 4 more hens in the spring and getting rid of one of my bantams, but both bantams are being kinda snotty, and are behind on 'rent' so I may get rid of both of them...
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    Speckled Sussexes & Wellsummer/Speckled Sussexes

    Could you post pictures of the eggs please?
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    Ordered first babies from Ideal (Update pg 11 PICTURES!)

    I have had a hard time with shipped eggs too. I ordered 8 banty chicks from Ideal last summer, and they included 6 standard BR packing peanuts. The banties did fine. Good luck with your new babies.
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    Gourmet Blacks ?

    I think they are a type of meat bird, like the Freedom Ranger. They don't grow as fast as the Cornish x, but faster than a 'regular' chicken.
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    Nebraskans Speak Up!!! NEBRASKA ROCKS!!

    According to the event center website, the Nebraska Poultry show was LAST weekend. Bummer, I really wanted to go, and I could have, but it was posted on here as being this weekend. Well, shoot.
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    how dangerous are cats to chickens

    Our neighbor has over 2 dozen cats that regularly come over to our yard. They don't bother the chickens, even the bantams.
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    So bummed out.... after 18 days

    The same thing happened to me the last time I bought from someone here. After 18 days, zero develpoment in any of the eggs. I was so bummed at having wasted all that time, and it was my last hatch until spring, and I really wanted that breed. I feel your pain. Good luck with the brown eggs...
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    Broody Australorp Now Mother Hen!!!!!! Lots and Lots of Pics!

    Looks good, congratulations!
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    An Omnivore's Dilemma thread (the book by Michael Pollan)

    I listened to it on CD a year ago. I had already had chickens, so it didn't influence me either way. I had already been buying the vast majority of my food locally and supporting farmers whose farming practices I like. I had already read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" "Coming Home to Eat" "This...
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    Anyone putting eggs in the bator tonight?

    I'm with you. I'm incubating local mixed breed eggs just to get my mojo back. I just tried to incubate shipped eggs for the first time... every one appeared to be infertile. I'm so mad, I wasted 18 days turning clear eggs because I was sure I was missing something. Nope. All clear. Wish me...
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    6 wheaten ameracauna eggs & 6 blue copper marans eggs

    WOW! Your eggs are georgeous! Can you post pictures of the chickens please?
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    FS 12+ Ameraucana blue hatching eggs - $22 shipping included - NY

    Your birds and eggs are beautiful. My incubator is full for a while, but will you have eggs for sale closer to fall? Do you accept money order? And how much for 6+?
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    It Was A Comb-ectomy!!!!

    I'm sorry for your little hen's comb. How awful, and absurd! I have read on here that pain killers with 'caine' in them are harmful to chickens. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will back this up. Best wishes for her speedy recovery.
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    Update: Our Recycled Shed Coop is almost done! Make that Done!

    Your coop, run, and webpage are beautiful. Are you going to enter it in the next coop contest? I think you definately should. The structure of the run is unique and wonderful.
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    ?? Average Home Flock Size ????

    Family of 3, 6 hens, on an acre. We can supply all our near neighbors with eggs.
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    Help, I can't stop I did it again. Ooops.

    My light bantam brahma chicks look exactly like your little black/gray ones with white/gray wings. I think they look like little penguins. Do you know what hatchery they came from?
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    What do quail taste like?

    I have been reading this section for a while now, and I am thinking I might want to try raising cotournix for meat. I have never had it though, and was wondering what it tastes like. Please don't say 'delicious' as that won't actually help me very much. Does the meat have a very distinct...
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    Just ordered my first chicks

    Do you know the average temp in your garage? If it is above 90, it may very well be too hot. You might try using a CFL bulb for light, as it won't put out as much heat. When your chicks arrive, watch how they behave. If they huddle, they are cold, if they spread their wings out and pant, they...
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    " Chicks dig the scars man..."-- Ladies!

    Like everyone else, it depends on the scar. I once had a boyfriend who had a vertical scar on his lip, it was really nice, er.. sexy. I have scars on the soles of my feet from an inadvertant attempt to walk on hot coals as a child. (Someone didn't put out their beach fire) I kinda like them...
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