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    Sabastopol Geese

    Looking to buy two pairs of goslings......pls help, for a special gift!
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    crouching chickens

    I will tell you how smart chickens are.........whenever they squat when you get close to them, I have trained them to associate the word "SIT" with the squat. Therefore, whenever I want to pick one up, all I have to do is give them the command and obediently they sit. I don't think most people...
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    Rode Island Reds?

    I have fifty RIR's and raised them from babies. Very fast growers, friendly, lay big eggs and continuous! When I go into their pen they are all underfoot and I have to shoo them to be able to get in. If I sit down amongst them, they will hop up on my lap. I don't have them integrated with...
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    Where are your garden pics? Show the tasty hobbie here

    Isn't Spring WONDERFUL????? We are in Oklahoma and always have heavy Spring rains and if you don't time it just right, you will miss out on the cool crop planting times because of the conditions being too wet! This year I made sure I was ahead of the curve..........preparing all the beds the...
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    McMurray's New Shipping Practices...has anyone heard about this?

    I had a similar experience.........my shipping notification stated that my 30 chicks would ship the week of March 8th, therefore we assumed we would get them on the 10th. On the morning of the 8th which was Monday, we went to work which is 47 miles from our house. We had just arrived at work...
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    Any Red Wine drinkers out there?

    MY RECOMMENDATION IS PINK CATAWBA by MYERS..........if you don't like dry, this is a happy medium. Its not too sweet or too dry. I drink it for two reasons: (1) heart, and (2)poison ivy control. I am highly alergic to poison ivy and a farmer told me 10 years ago if I drank a glass of red wine...
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    Frizzle Turkens

    Want To Buy At Least 20 Chicks..........anyone Know A Source??
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    Frizzle Turkens

    I am looking to purchase around twenty-five Frizzle Turkens in white or black!
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    The same thing happens every time...

    I personally think that you have too many birds in your cardboard box at one time. By looking into the box, it seems that there is alot of available space, but the main problem is that when they huddle in the light source, the stronger chicks will climb to the top and the weaker ones will be on...
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    treating for cocci, how long till we can eat eggs?

    The recommended waiting period is fourteen days after the last treatment. It can be very painful to destroy all the eggs during that time period. Some, suggest feeding the eggs back to the chiickens, but my Avian Vet said that was not adviseable in his opinion, due to the traces of medication...
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    HEY WISCONSINITES..........I'm an Okie who loves cheese and someone has to know where the best place in your State is to buy the original Wisconsin cheese! PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP????????
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    roofs on runs

    I have metal siding roofs on all my runs and two clear panels amongst the solid panels which acts like a skylight. This provides plenty of natural light during the day and does not keep their run dark. The covered runs definitely allow the chickens to go out during inclement weather and keeps...
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    Lets Talk Taxes!

    We have used Turbo Tax for years, purchase the update of the program every year. We have deductions for the Farm and the program won't let you error, because it will come back asking verifying questions to be able to qualify for a particular deduction. This is a much wiser method, due to the...
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    Please share info on Wyandottes please!!!!!!!

    Great chicken......can't say anything negative! Good layer, large eggs and very quiet and social birds that also get along well with other breeds as well as humans. GOOD CHOICE!
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    fighting hens

    I use to think it was because of a weakness that individual chicken was showing or an illness, but they are like children, all of a sudden they get mad at one of the group and they are relentless in their attacking. I recently had a Black Australorp, who was one of forty, raised with all of her...
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    Mean hen! Hurting other hens!

    Unfortunately, we never may understand the pecking order of the animal world. A couple of months ago we had a sweet, docile hen who was raised with six of her sisters suddenly become the target of one of her sisters. She would relentlessly peck at her, chase her away from the food, and act...
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    My experience dealing with MG (Mycoplasma gallispectum)

    Thank-you for posting your experience which had to be such a hard decision. We went through the same thing two months ago with forty RIR three month old pullets that we bought from a gentlemen who incubated and hatched eggs from breeder sources. He was a very nice man and had no idea that the...
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    Out of 21 hens...they all quit laying at once???

    The first two winters that I had chickens, I did not keep extra lighting on or did I provide any additional heating. Out of the thirty hens I had at that time, we would only get three to six eggs a day. The third winter, I kept lights on for fourteen hours a day, and added heat to their coop...
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    Any one with a Austrolorp?

    I have 50 and they are six months old and have been laying for about two weeks. Once they start laying, they are little egg machines!
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    Lost our first girl - GOT A PIC OF THE EVIL PREDATOR!

    My money is also on a coon, and the problem becomes that they tend to communicate with their family members and you will have many of them eyeing your flock. We had never had any problems, and then two years ago, a young coon wandered in a made a successful kill and before long we hand mom...
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