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  1. RachelLeigh

    Silkie collector here. HI! :)

    I posted that previous picture of my blue rooster. I have tried in a couple of my threads to post pictures and im getting error messages. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
  2. RachelLeigh

    My experience w/ a head injury..

    At this point, I have put the chick back in the coop with the rest of the young ones. It's head no longer falls. I do still see it running in circles though some. I'm not giving it anything special now. Yay! wry neck no more!
  3. RachelLeigh

    Nutrition and gender, and inducing broodiness

    I swear by horse sweet feed. Sounds crazy but it does have great ingredients for chickens. Last year I noticed when I snuck mine horse feed of my cousins horses that lived here, I got more eggs. Which reminds me, I have some in my trunk and the hens aren't laying. Nows the time to try that...
  4. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    is there a number of posts on byc that I need to get to in order to be able to post a picture. ive tried many times to get a picture up and it gives me a failed message....in every other page or site, I can upload easily. Since I'm new I thought maybe Im supposed to make a certain number of...
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    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    Awesome! And thanks! I do expect two or even three years of training on a leash before I would trust her alone with them. My last shepherd that was stolen was three and she had just got to where I could trust her..she was a rescue, so not at all the same early start as this baby has. Pictures...
  6. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    My puppy acts like she gets it. I have been very consistent. She is on a leash around the chickens, right by my side with no room to move unless I move. She leads to the orchard where I drop the lead. This is free time and play time. At night she goes right in her crate right at the level...
  7. RachelLeigh

    My experience w/ a head injury..

    Also folic acid and B vitamins are critical for brain injury.
  8. RachelLeigh

    My experience w/ a head injury..

    I didn't expect this and wasn't prepared. Her head is up and she is in a cage eating. Her head will still fall but she is eating! I have kept her wrapped in a paper towel next to me. It was the only way to be hands free while I could brace her head while she seized up. This experience was...
  9. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    Lol "steps to the perfect broody shepherd"
  10. RachelLeigh

    Nutrition and gender, and inducing broodiness

    Lol. Oh that was you, who posted the "best not to fridge first" in the other thread. As soon as I get my new incubator and note almost perfect hatch rates from counter to incubator, I'll start with the fridge first rate :) stay tuned lol
  11. RachelLeigh

    Eggs don't have to be warm . . .

    Brinsea just added a new feature that actually allows a cooling period.
  12. RachelLeigh

    Nutrition and gender, and inducing broodiness

    Thanks.! I AM actually testing the fridge first no turn hatch rate. It just got brought up in another thread too. Doesn't make sense to me why NOT put in fridge if you want them to last longer. The air cell stays small in fridge versus out on the counter where moisture is lost. I've always put...
  13. RachelLeigh

    Nutrition and gender, and inducing broodiness

    I didn't mean to sound like a know it all nay sayer. Sorry for the way it seemed. When I read that article, I looked very closely at my own eggs. I was wondering if it WOULD be true for breeds like what is grown on farms when its mass production scale and every bird is identical in most ways...
  14. RachelLeigh

    Eggs don't have to be warm . . .

    Why is it best not to refridgerate eggs first? It makes them last longer because there is little air cell moisture lost. In my experience it doesn't decrease hatch rate.
  15. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    Thanks for everyone's tips and links. I love training stories! My chickens are half my fun in life. My dog had to be apart of it all. I have one chance to get it right while she is so little.
  16. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    Thanks Azygous! Perfect timing since we just got her! I did put her out there. It was fine. She will learn them and patience. I can only afford one dog. I have seen proof a German shepherd can do this job as a lgd would. So can mine ;) I am home most of the day. This is gonna take work with...
  17. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    Well she is only seven weeks old.
  18. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    Typically? Sure. But according to a huge thread I read on here, its not the breed, its all about how you raise them, and train them and also the individual dogs personality.
  19. RachelLeigh

    Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

    hmmm, ok. I bought a german shepherd magazine at rural king. its a good edition with lots on the breed in just a short magazine. What do you all think of me moving her kennel into the chicken coop to be with them? It's a big coop and her kennel was used in there to provide an extra pen and is...
  20. RachelLeigh

    Nutrition and gender, and inducing broodiness

    Hi. My varying two cents... I saw that aricle. If it were true, the poultry farmers would be in hen haven. All of us would, we all get too many roosters lol. I have silkies so I can only speak of my silkie experience. I only have 8 hens so I have observed closely. One by one they layed...
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