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Thanks to all, especially Mominoz, for sharing experience with coons and geese. We locked everyone up early, approx 5:30pm yesterday, since we planned on being out late to celebrate my husbands birthday. I had soooo many unhappy birds. Had to fool the hens with treats to get them inside and...

We've had a peaceful 3 years with our hens & waterfoul as far as preditors are concernd. We seen and shot at and coyotees, but haven't seen any sign of raccons in the area until about 2 weeks ago when I discovered and inadverntantly tree'd a raccon that had been eating our poultry feed in the...

I have a lovely little buff ameraucana hen who is a broody little thing - broody right now as I type. I love her to death but I don't love her broodiness only because I feel so guilty for not letting her set. I live in on Hwy 101 north of Hoquiam toward Lake Quinault (WA), my hens are free range...

Everytime I read through the Buy Sell Trade I am frustraded by the number of posts with no State in the subject line - Please - please - please list your State....

I purchased BC Marans eggs last spring from her. Eggs were packed well and 4 of 8 hatched (auction was for 6). Was fortunate to have 2 hens 2 roo's. The Hens are wonderful, calm quite, consistant layers of x-large dark eggs when they aren't broody. They are wonderful mothers and also had nice...

hmm. starting to think I'm going to keep one of the roo's that were headed to my dad's freezer:)

Thanks - now I just have to figure out what to do....

Hey I'd love to know if having a rooster will coorect this behavior? I have one dominate hen that has taken on the rooster role since we packaged all our roo's - I'm not a big fan of Roo's (sorry everyone), but I do have 4 young roo's coming up maybe I should consider keeping one to put her...

Ameraucana's are also spoken for at this time.

**************Update ************ Marans As I should have guessed I have a few inquiries on the Marans, so for now I'm going to consider them spoken for. I'll post if they become availible. Thanks Janet

Thanks for the plug tailfeathers, and you're right about Jean & Lisa which of course is why I purchased from them . It's actually quite difficult to give them up, but I really do need to downsize my flock at least for the time being. Thanks again.

*******7/12/09 Downsized by 1/3 so we'll see how I do with just 24 hens :-) thanks for the inquiries****** Hi everyone I’m looking to downsize my flock a bit so I’m hoping to re-home some of my hens. All but 4 are just a year old and have been raised free range. When not free ranging they are...

Even with my limited experience, I too believe greed is at the core of the issue. Buyers are almost as responsible as sellers as sellers wouldn't get thier price if buyers weren't willing to pay it. I've been careful in my purchasing of eggs - attempting to buy from reputable sellers who focus...

Quote: I don't know where you got the birds......but do tell the vendor about the problem & see what they say. I just hatched 4 of 7 black copper marans eggs, breeding stock was Wade Jean/Bev Davis and 2 have the 4 hatched have fused toes. I hadn't encounter fused toes and was worried we...

I do have an incubator, but I have to admit that after incubating 4 seperate batches last year .. having the hens do it is alot less worry and work... I say HOORAY for broody hens! Thank you both - and I'll hope for very determined hens :-)...

I have 2 very broody sister hens. One has already proven herself hatching, and it's the 1st time for the other. My delima is that I don't want to hatch eggs from the roo I have on site so I want to purchase some - my concern is that they will give up on the purchased eggs before it's their...

Thanks everyone - especially Omniskies - for your thoughts. Not sure which breed I'll pursue but this time around I'll be a little better prepared. I'll also have to remember to watch Teri's rescue site to see what might pop of there.

HI everyone - hoping all you geese lovers can help provide me some valuable insite before I enter into goose owenership again. I'd really like a light to med weight breed who aren't over acheivers in the egg/broodiness department. I'm hoping for no more than a flock of 4,and egg production I...

Lorie - thanks so much for the tip. The brands I purchased were tri-fold clear (nice clarity) and sodesa (not as clear) and I hadn't tried the ovotherm. I really like the tri fold's clarity but the center fold doesn't hold up very long - I'm off to order the Ovotherm! thank you, thank you -...

I am also trying to prepare for onslaught of spring/summer laying and purchased 2 types of clear plastic cartons from eggcartons.com (3x4 & 2x12 which breaks into 2x6) and have been disappointed in both and am now seriously considering pulp/paper. I wanted plastic for reusability and to show...