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    Amberlink

    I'm starting to wonder about one of my Amberlink Pullets. Thinking that she might be a he. The 2 Amberlinks that I got back in Mid March. The one in the foreground looks very much like a pullet. But the other one has a well developed comb and wattles there already. Plus a little more...
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    The Walking Dead - Lucille says that there will be Spoilers. Listen to Lucille!!

    New Episodes start Sunday night. Should start seeing the other communities form an alliance to take on the Saviors. I still think what they need to do sometime this season is do a flashback episode or 2 to show off just how did Negan get to be in charge of the Saviors and how exactly did...
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    Don't take Selfies with Chickens!!!!

    So, a little backstory here. Early in december I had a hawk attack one of my buff orpingtons and he managed to rip off a large patch of skin off of her rump. Thankfully, we chased off the hawk and saved her from it. And as part of her treatment, I've been giving her epsom salt soaks out in...
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    Star Wars - The Force Awakens *here be spoilers*

    I just saw The Force Awakens for the second time. Who else here has seen the movie already??
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    Iowa Blue Cockerel in Michigan.

    Kinda need to find this fellow a new home. Mom really doesn't want me to have roosters, and well, I'm more worried about just getting eggs from his sisters. I got them mostly to have something unique in my layer flock. Would like to set him up in a good situation with someone wanting him for...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Where I work with a lot of different people when I really don't want to offend them them, it was useful hearing some of these stories so that I would be ready for when I would be chatting away with a client and that subject would come up. So, I want to start a new thread, just to keep that...
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    Parking the Tractor for Winter.

    The Witch Of November is coming for us here in Michigan, and while I might be down in the Banana Belt compared to some of those up in the Yooperland and Northern Lower Michigan, I'm thinking that I might as well plan on parking my tractor this week due to the nasty weather that's coming. Right...
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    The Night Watch

    This thread is for all of those who are staying up a bit late because they know they got some assorted critter that they need to worry about to protect their flock, or are hearing something out there going bump in the night, and to allow us to commiserate and or celebrate when we can do the old...
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    Should the White House Garden add chickens?

    I figure here's a fairly OK place to as this question, as it political, and well, Political really just turns to mud slinging about 15 different things that side did versus about 15 things the other side would have done differently and would have been so much better than the other side...
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    Best dogs with chickens?

    I'm still new to chickens here, and so far, everything has been going great with them. I also have about a 6 month old mini Aussie shepherd named Belle, and she loves to watch the chickens. She's about 7 pounds of puppy fury right now. Right now she seems like she wants to chase them too...
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    June Bugs.

    Came home right at dusk and went to go check on my girls and fill their feeder up. I do need to get a bigger one made for them. anyways as soon as I was coming back with the feed, it seemed like the tractor was getting bombarded with June bugs hitting the wire. I'm guessing it was some sort...
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    Paint?

    I'm still working on my chicken tractor's coop area, and I just about got that area all closed in enough that I can cut the door into the run to let my girls to start using that area to get in out of the rain instead of a barrel that they have been using. Its mostly put together with OSB, and...
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    World Cup!

    The 2014 World Cup kicks off today. Who are you watching, who are you cheering for, and who do you think is going to go all the way??
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    adding wheels to a chicken tractor

    I've in the process of building a chicken tractor. I currently have the enclosed run done and have the girls living in there with a few roosts and a barrel for them to crash in. One of the roosts currently in there is one of the saw horses that I used to help build the frame, so to move it...
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    New to Chickens in Michigan

    Hello everybody. I'm new to chickens pretty much, we had some years ago when I was little, but I'm not so little now. Anyways, I really want to get into doing some chickens this year so I can have me some fresh eggs on hand all the time. What I'm thinking is getting about 3 or 4 birds and...
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