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  1. George in NH

    Names of your Chicken Domains ?

    The Robinson family settled this property, they died and the place sat vacant for ten or more years (the local kids used it in those years as a party place. Locals always refer to this place as the old Robinson homestead; we were trying to think of a name for this place and we knew it had to...
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    New waterfowl pen

    The muscovies are pretty neat (messy but neat as in cool lol). I had 17 babies hatch last week. There are 8 eggs in the incubator and another muscovy is sitting on ten eggs. Won't be long before I'll be going across the road to fence in the neigbors field (he even has a pond).
  3. George in NH

    New waterfowl pen

    I had been letting the geese free range and they have done a good job of keeping the property mowed. I went out and bout a brand new lawn mower five weeks ago; I mowed the day I got the lawn mower and that has been it. The geese are great lawn mowers but there is a problem with them wandering...
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    New waterfowl pen

    I got tired of the mess the geese and ducks make around the chicken coop so today I got some fence and made them a new area to mess up. The new pen area is quite large. It took 400 feet of fencing. It about kills a person to mow this area so I decided to put the geese and ducks to work mowing...
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    do ducks eat wasps?

    I watched a bumble bee flying around my baby ducks, the ducks ran and screamed like little girls LOL Can't blame the ducks though, the bee was almost as big as they were.
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    Clean coops

    I had a couple hundred chickens one year. The coop was very easy to keep clean during the warmer months but once winter hit that was another story. I had to wait until spring to clean out the winter bedding. I was thankful I had thought ahead and had a window put in low that opened out. I was...
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    Think I got a fake paypal email...........what do I do?

    I get these paypal spams all the time. I also get ebay spams all the time. I know the spam isn't coming from either paypal or ebay but it sure does make me wish I'd never used either; if I hadn't I wouldn't be dealing with so much spam. Both scams are very tricky and I am sure many people far...
  8. George in NH

    Thinking about getting turkeys

    Cheri, what you going to name the fourth one? Don't you think maybe he/she would need company LOL OOPS, guess you did not name one of them after a specific holiday, you named it holiday dinner (very original). Come on, there are broadbreasted turkeys for the dinner table, the heritage breeds...
  9. George in NH

    Sebastopol

    No, they are very easy to raise. They are very hardy. They also like hanging out on steps, decks, the porch, in the middle of the driveway. Basically, they hang out wherever they're not supposed to, but the benifit is they are great lawnmowers, fertilizers and watchdogs.
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    Sebastopol

    Hi Ozark Hen, They are three years old. I got them at a year old. They are pretty neat geese. I wish the male looked as good as the female, guess she just wears her feathers better. Here is a picture of the female and male Sebs in snow with their buddy the male muscovy standing outside the pen...
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    Thinking about getting turkeys

    That's a bummer about the turkeys. Good luck with the others. I love turkeys. Here is a picture of the royal palms I got on father's day.
  12. George in NH

    Sebastopol

    These are the Sebs with their adopted toulouse geese. The picture is on the dark side so may be hard to see.
  13. George in NH

    Sebastopol

    This is the female sitting on 7 eggs that she managed to destroy with some help from the male
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    Sebastopol

    These are the Sebs last fall.
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    Sebastopol

    I live in New Hampshire and have a pair of Sebs. My Sebs handled the winter really good. I didn't have any problems with them at all. The snow and cold never bothered them. I used a doghouse with shavings in it as their winter home. The even mated in the snow, started layin eggs in March while...
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    Need info on selling eggs

    Hi Rich, I never kept count of eggs sold in a year; I give away a lot more than I sell. Most of my buyers are older ladies who are on fixed incomes and use the eggs for baking so I give them more eggs than I sell to them and they bring me homemade snacks When I went to the USDA they...
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    Need info on selling eggs

    I visited the USDA extension office prior to selling eggs. I was told that it is illegal to sell eggs in egg carton's marked with a store name, another farm name and the USDA seal on the carton unless you are the owner of the store or farm and your eggs are inspected and approved by the USDA. If...
  18. George in NH

    Am i the only one who has never ate a homegrown chicken?

    I don't raise my chickens as pets, I raise them for eggs. I will butcher and eat extra roosters. I really like the flavor of home grown. My father raised poultry for food so I learned at an early age not to name what you might be eating. I think in all the years I have raised poultry that I have...
  19. George in NH

    i know im perinoid, but what happened when you did it

    I think the post office people are great to work with. An oder of chicks from McMurray arrived at the main hub in White River Juntion Vermont, which is about 1.5 hrs from me. They called to tell me that the chicks wouldn't be at the local post office until the next morning and the chicks...
  20. George in NH

    How often to monitor chicks?

    You don't need to stand guard over the new chicks. All you'll need to do is check on them a few times a day to make sure everything is going OK. You chicks should be fine for long periods of time as long as they have good shelter. food, water and heat light. Of course, it's easy for me to say...
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