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    Quaker or Meyer Parrot for sale to a good home

    We have a neighbor that is being deployed to Afghanistan in a few days. She has asked me to see if I can find a good home for her Quaker parrot, Apple, as she doesn't have the time before leaving. He is very friendly and loves to sit on your shoulder, loves attention,loves to play, says a...
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    Found a Pigeon with leg band in WV - anyone missing one?

    Hi, we found a pigeon in our yard yesterday - leg band reads: 19 IF CVI 2012 - white with a few black specks. please let me know if this is yours, as we don't want to keep it and would like to find its owner. it seems to be off balance and may have a hurt wing. thanks
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    Free to good home - 2 jakes and 1 hen turkey

    HI, i found what i thought was 2 hens for my narrang. jake, but one is a chocolate jake and the other is a broadbreasted bronze hen. i have found that i just don't have the room for them, and would like to give them all away to a good home. hopefully someone will want them for breeding...
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    Uniontown, PA swap - Fayette Co. fairgrounds Sat & Sun

    Uniontown Poultry Assoc, Fayette Cty Fairgrounds, Oct 15-16, 7am-noon, see dozens of breeds & varieties of standard sz, bantam chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, admission $2 per vehicle, buy/sell/trade Oct 16. (724)255-5549
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    1st time with Turkeys - help me please

    hi, i just bought 2 half grown turkey hens at a stockyard auction. i thought they were little ones, but when they came out of the much too small box they were in - they stood over a foot tall each. i know nothing about turkeys, but have assorted chickens, so have extra feeders and waterers...
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    how to help a hen with a broken leg?

    Hi, i have a sweet little black austrolorp with a broken leg. i don't know how it happened, but it has been a couple of weeks. i thought she had just hurt it,but upon further investigation see that it is broken. i had put her in a cage and have been watching, but don't know if it is healing...
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    Processor near Grantsville Maryland - also sells pastured CX

    This is who we use to process our meaties: Silver Lining Poultry - Bittinger MD - 301-245-4306 they charged us $2.00 per lb for basic processing - leaving the birds whole or halved - excellent work!! they will also cut them up however you want for an additional amount, but not sure...
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    very happy with spring meaties results

    We just got our CX back from the butchers: 40 chicks, shipping, mareks vac - $111.76 610 lbs Purina flock raiser, bedding - $210.00 processing and diesel to and from - $120.00 Total $441.76 36 taken to butcher - approx 250 lbs...
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    Cornish X with black feathers?

    hi, i've been raising cornish x for 4 years now, and this is the first year that i received any that didn't feather out pure white. this year there are several of my 40 with a small amount of black feathers - a few spread here or there on their bodies. i am wondering what breed might have...
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    Free Yellow Lab Pup - 6 months old - Nice dog, but needs training

    Free yellow lab pup 6 months old. has all shots and rabies vac. Nice dog, but very active/chewy. Needs to be trained to be the kind of dog that he deserves to be - we just don't have the time. He has been trained to leave chickens alone, but still needs supervised as the "Puppy" in him wants...
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    So mad at my 2 broody's!!! stupid chooks!

    i have 2 broody black austrolorps - sitting now for over 2 weeks. yesterday afternoon when I went into the coop - BOTH of them are in different nest boxes, and the eggs they had been so loving to are stone cold! about 14 eggs ruined. i had to throw them out, and I saw that most of them...
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    Free 8 week old feather foot bantam roo - FREE - penn hills PA

    my sister in law has a mille fluer? 8 week old feather footed roo listed on craigslist FREE. pics are there - penn hills pa lovely little guy
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    treating chicks for Mereks

    Hi, i have 2 broody hens sitting on who knows how many eggs. The last time i had a broody - only 1 chick hatched. it was a beautiful EE, and lived to be about 8 months old, then i believe it got Mereks, as her legs overnight became paralyzed - none of the other hens ( who I had purchased...
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    Weights of processed cornish X - Wow!

    We picked up our Cornish X from the processor last night - lightest hen was 4.5 lbs. heaviest roo was 7.5lb dressed out. average weight was 5.75/per bird - 2 big refrigerators completely full of meat - approx 350lb dressed. WOW I am thrilled with this bunch - got them from Meyers - and had...
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    Record of cornish X 1 day to processing

    I have kept records for my 60 Cornish X this spring - going to the processor tonight so here it goes: 60 Cornish X ordered from Meyers Hatchery arrived 3/17/10 cost 1.09 each plus shipping and vitapack $85.32 Supplies( light bulbs,waterers) plus 17 bags of feed - 850 lbs...
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    interesting return to health on Cornish X chick

    i had posted about a 4 week cornish x that was sitting with its feet out and I was sure that it would have a heart attack and die. it wouldn't walk, so I would put it up to the waterer and made it drink for a couple of days, but it would not eat, and just sat on its butt. i then just decided...
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    fly control - no chemicals

    i just got an email about this method of fly control - snopes says it can't be discounted as a hoaks - i am going to give it a try We went with friends to Sweety Pies on Sunday for breakfast and sat in the patio section beside the house. We happened to notice zip lock baggies pinned to a...
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    question about 4 week Cornish X and heart attack?

    Hi, i had one 4 week old cornish x with its legs out and breathing hard this morning, did a search but could not bring up "heart attacks" or "flip" . i am pretty sure that i'll lose this one, but want to see if anyone can tell me how to maybe prevent any more from this. i have been doing...
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    What's your chicken song? Come on - we all have one!

    Here's my new chicken song that I sing when I open the coop in the morning. to the tune of Johny Cash's " Folsum Prison ": I HEAR THE CHICKENS SQUALKING THEY'RE BOKKING OUT MY NAME THEY SAY THERE'S NO MORE FOOD BUT THEIR BIN IS FULL OF GRAIN OH, THEY'RE STUCK IN OLE COOP...
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    It's time to let Baby hen go.

    Well it has been 5 weeks since i suspected Baby had Meriks, and have been treating her with Hypercin - st. johns wort, as someone here had mentioned. She had been mostly paralzyed, but has come to the point where she can stand on her feet, but they will not open fully up and enable her to walk...
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