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    American serama thread!

    Thank you...I have lots of half inch hard ware cloth that I can use. The tops of the runs are already covered, half with shade tarps and half with avian netting. I plan to get the best I can, I haven't yet trained my eye to recognize excellent quality Seramas like I do with my Heritage English...
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    American serama thread!

    No worries on the flying the fence is 6 ft high and covered
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    American serama thread!

    I am ready to add these beauties to my chicken collection. What do I need to know about them? I live in Middle TN. It is either hot or cold here now real in between area, but it does not get EXTREMELY cold...the coldest it ever gets is like -5 F. but average in the dead of winter is in the 20's...
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    Thanks so much everyone for the advise! The chicks are finally putting on weight and have grown nearly 3 times their size just since she has had them! They have nearly caught up to where they should be at this age. She ended up giving them flock raiser as their main feed and about a tsp. of the...
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    Thank you!
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    That seems to be the exact same thing that the little ones have gone through...thank you! I hope they are not too badly stunted and eventually lay but we will see.
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    They could have been from pullet eggs but still that does not explain why they are skin and bones, neither does the lack of protein....these poor chicks were starved
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    They do hatch smaller not sure if they ever catch up though
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    Thanks for the response....Unfortunately the seller that I speak of, I sold some breeding birds to and the chicks my friend got came from those breeding birds so I know what size they SHOULD BE, they are not just genetically smaller they just simply haven't been growing at the rate they should...
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    I sure hope so...Thankfully I have never had to deal with something like that because I hatch and raise all my babies that I am breeding with but she wanted some Orps of her own and I did not have any to sell and those skin and bone babies is what she got :( It is so sad to see them that skinny!
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    Stunted by Starvation and Dehydration?

    Thank you for viewing my post...a local friend of mine acquired a flock of 10 chickens today. They were hatched in mid July the seller says, which would put that at about 5 months old, but are the size of 2 month old chickens. They are NOT bantams they are LF Orpingtons. I raise LF Orpingtons...
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    Fowl for Foraging " What the best Fowl?"

    Thank you all for your help! I will start looking into what I can come up with as far as a secure night coop
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    Fowl for Foraging " What the best Fowl?"

    Thank you! I have been reading up on them...they seem to be the least domesticated of domestic poultry
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    Fowl for Foraging " What the best Fowl?"

    Is is ok to have cattle drink from the same water that the geese have been in?
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest - 12/14/2015 - Pic by emmaellis111

    "You shall not pass!" (in a British accent)
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    Fowl for Foraging " What the best Fowl?"

    Thank you all for the responses! I was hoping to have something that is like the wild turkeys around here...we have tons of them and there populations are ever growing, surely if they can survive here so can some other kind of poultry.
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    Fowl for Foraging " What the best Fowl?"

    Oh I should mention that we do have hawks, a few bald eagles, foxes, raccoons, opossums, and pretty much anything that you can think of so they would have to be able to either out run, out last, our fly or straight up fight off predators. At night they would be a bit safer at night if they...
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    Fowl for Foraging " What the best Fowl?"

    So I was just sitting here looking at pictures on a few different threads and I found myself day dreaming about having birds running free on our land. We have 7 acres of land about half of it has dense woodland's the other half is pretty open with a few trees here and there which is where our...
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    What chores do you hate doing?

    Hate is a strong word but I STRONGLY DISLIKE having to carry warm water from upstairs in the house all the way downstairs and to the coops that are about 80 yards away in the bitterly cold temps with a layer of ice covering the ground so I can slip and fall and be soaked by warm water which...
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    The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

    It has been a long while! How is everyone? I am getting my breeding pens set up for this fast approaching breeding season! This year I finally have enough VERY VERY nice birds to make a nice breeding flock and I will not be selling anything from that pen until their babies are old enough to...
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