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  1. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Feel free to chose a number! I'll keep everything in this same topic.
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    Does anyone use soy/corn-free feed?

    It's quite easy to avoid eating soy directly if you avoid all ultra processed food... However it's impossible to avoid indirect soy because that's what most meat animals eat. If you go vegan though, avoiding indirect soy is feasible... But again, good luck getting a decent aminoacidic profile...
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    I need to take a picture when I take her out of the nest. She looks like a freaking rabid frittella
  4. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    LOL no worries! There was one in a million chances 🤣 Should do some lottery I guess!
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    Show me your weirdest looking chicken mutt

    What a lovely Zebra finch! Yeah finches are definitely welcome in this thread too. I love them as much as I love chickens.
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    Show me your weirdest looking chicken mutt

    As title say, if you hatched some mixed breeds that look somehow weird or odd, or something that you don't see everywhere, post a picture here! Rules: - only birds with adult feathering - no pure breeds - has to be a bird - any bird - Here is my oddball Kiwi. Rumpless, with both beard and...
  7. Altairsky

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Caprese and Ammos are both girls, this crossing can be feather sexed. For everyone else we need to wait a little more! Caruso better stay closer to her mother because she's so disobedient that if she doesn't win a darwin award really soon I'm gonna be surprised.
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Let's go with Olive Yew, because cinzia is the name of a woman my father had an affair with, lol. Now all women's names that ends in "...zia" give me the cringes 🤣
  9. Altairsky

    Bean toxicity?

    My chickens have access to my vegetable garden. There are red beans there, and I've seen them peck at them. Nobody died.
  10. Altairsky

    Does anyone use soy/corn-free feed?

    If you don't have a diagnosis of some terrible allergy to legumes, there is absolutely no reason to deprive your animals of extremely valuable amino acids like those found in soy. Everything else is conspiracy theory. And I'm one that tends to lean on the conspiracy side myself.
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    This is Kiwi, she's the weirdest chicken I have seen so far! She should be a breed! Easter egger, she has araucana, faverolle and legbar in there. Beard, crest, muffles and wattles, plus a huge leghorn comb. She also has green eyes! And this is the nest. It's her first experience and she's only...
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    Let's see those treat platters😊🐓

    Since it's the end of season, I opened my summer vegetable garden to the chickens, if that counts!
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    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    Kiwi, Peach first daughter, is sitting on 5 eggs! Wanna do another hatch along part 2?
  14. Altairsky

    Broody hen needs to be moved

    Broody hens are tied to the nest, not to the eggs. It's ok to move a broody if it's an early stage and she's sitting on fake eggs so she has all the time she needs to either adapt to a new nest or break. After she starts incubating she needs to stay in the same nest until the chicks hatch and...
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    Tell me he's a boy!

    I hatched all boys in that batch, lol... Anyway if anyone is curious, there he is today
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    We don't need salt. There is already too much salt in everything we eat. Unprocessed meat and fish already have all the salt we need. We'd need salt only if we ate a goat's or a horse's diet. Grey salt is still 99% salt so it's not an excuse to use more of it. Last but not least, we don't need...
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    Rooster attacking broody hen and her chick

    If you can't find any good reason in your setup to justify his behavior, it means that that rooster is rotten and should not breed. We should breed for good birds that are doing their best to pass their genes, not for jerks who tries to extinct themselves. A rooster that attacks his own chicks...
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    Need Help ASAP

    I'd give corid or anything with amprolium to treat coccidiosis. After the treatment, and only after, I'd give a vitamin complex, a baby formula is fine. Make sure to never give vitamin during corid treatment. Vitamins make corid useless. I'd also keep a friend with her so she's less lonely and...
  19. Altairsky

    Rooster?

    Cinnamon queens are mutts with a fancy name. They're not a breed and they don't have a standard. In birds with pea comb, what matters is not the comb color, but how wide the comb is. 90% of times, three rows of "peas" means male, one row means female.
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    Broody hen gone CRAZY . Help

    Normal broody behavior. She really wants to have babies. If you can't let her hatch some eggs, I think it's best for her to find a new home where she's allowed to be a mama. I think it won't be hard to find someone who wants a free incubator. Getting in and out of broody jail every couple of...
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