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  1. Barry42001

    Be moving off grid living

    Moving to are a near Venus Florida, very remote lots of wildlife. Mountain lions, black bear, boar, large alligators bobcat to name the big uns lol. Have to clear a acre or so to homestead will raise chicken ( chick I had some ass syole, unbelievable) won't have that here, will buy 16 chicks...
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    Important information when you order hatching eggs

    I didn't know it but the post office has changed its shipping policies with regards to hatching eggs or anything labeled fragile. Not only must you clearly mark the package as being Fragile on all surfaces. You must pay for special handling to avoid having your parcel with a hatching eggs being...
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    Well that truly sucks

    I knew that the neighborhood that I lived in was not a particularly good neighborhood it would never occur to me that someone would come into my backyard during the course of the a.m. and steal my chicken my little chick she was just starting to feather out so I put her out so I kept her in a...
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    Thwarting chicken engineer corps

    It seems almost inevitable that every time you try and do something inside the chicken coop to make things a little better for the chickens the first thing they do is destroy it if they can't destroy it they defecate on it the defecation I can live with the mangling what you spent hours doing...
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    One more time

    Today received 12 buff Orpington eggs and a extra bantum egg Not what you want to see so is 11 buff Orpington eggs and of course the bantum egg . Setting air space now incubator running
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    Eggs the just don't develop at all

    Aside from not being infertile is there a reason why eggs simply do not develop for that matter what causes the death of an egg after it gets 10-15 Days in
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    I live in North Fort Myers

    Very suburban area in South Flordia. my previous readings about this indicate that they do allow you don't raise chickens not all the commercial level obviously. But I haven't seen is the standards that they require. It's not like there's not chickens in the area I hear roosters all the time. I...
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    Other people's dogs

    Net result of a running with a Rottweiler type dog that was the same day he bit me
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    Here we go again French Marans hatching eggs arriving Saturday

    They're on their way here from Washington State they just left the regional Distribution Center in Spokane are expected here by Saturday
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    Fertile eggs

    Just to satisfy my curiosity is there any way possible a newly laid egg can be looked at while beinf candled and know the eggs have been fertilized. Would think it would take at least 2 to 3 days of incubation to start to see indicators of it being fertilized with certainty
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    Eggs enter the mail stream Tuesday expect receipt by Friday

    I know opinions vary but how long should I let the eggs rest before starting incubation
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    12+ Buff Orpington hatching eggs

    Be receiving then in a week or so. Already testing incubator. Will have feed water and feed containers getting set for them
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    Starting all over again

    Little over a month and a half ago I had to leave where I was staying couldn't take the chickens with me so they stayed with the person that was there I'm now down in Fort Myers Florida and I'm ordering myself a dozen black Australorp eggs hatching LOL mind you this will be my inspiration to...
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    Clumsy or intentional

    I have noticed several times a week a couple of eggs with holes which I blame on Clumsy chickens maneuvering around on the nest and punching holes with their claws those eggs are not eating unless another clumsy chicken gets in there and sits on them and smashes them. I've never seen a chicken...
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    Egg production dropped sharply why?

    Currently we have 24 laying hens we have a mix of breeds Rhode Island Reds black Australorp buff orpington Barred Rock and a few sex links that were bred by my rooster. In the beginning of Spring when they first started laying eggs we were getting over a dozen-and-a-half eggs Daily now it's a...
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    6 days into incubating shipped aracana aggs

    Of 44 eggs 24 seem to be developing rest no change. Will maintain all till last week of hatching. Shells in many are difficult to see clearly what's going on in shell but can say with certainty the segregated eggs will hatch. Others well
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    Size-wise difference between araucana americauna and Easter Eggers

    I have 40 some-odd supposedly purebred araucana eggs in the incubator the eggs are rather small by anybody standards certainly larger than a bantam but not by a lot we have birds that were listed as being Easter Eggers / Americauna are much larger then the same aged White leghorns not a great...
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    Broody hens

    Currently I have two hens that want to live in their nesting box they have shed out the feathers on their stomachs for brooding eggs they're not even laying eggs anymore they're sitting on somebody else's eggs just to have an egg. I want to break that and get them back in the cycle any...
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    Easter eggers/ Americauna/ Aracana aggression

    I was transferring the larger juvenile delinquent birds over to the " big Bird " side hearing a malicious rumor the is best time a day doing as it gets dark. I have been pecked before, clawed, beat with wings from prostesting birds. I have never had all 3 including being bitten till now Lol...
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    Hatching aracana eggs from california

    This is not an auction: 40 True Araucana Hatching Eggs for sale for $75 plus $20 shipping and handling for domestic shipments only. International shipping charges would be closer to $100 for Express shipping and will be calculated when an international offer is made. These are Edd Sheppard...
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