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  1. Newbiechickchic

    Rooster's are dying, dropping like flies! Calcium??

    No hens, just my rooster's! So this calcium issue seems to be a problem for me this past month.. This is my 8th year having chickens, and plenty of rooster's, and never has this happened before until this spring! I have lost 4 rooster's in the past month, and another one seems to be falling...
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    Please read about Diatomaceous Earth

    Given recent conversations (as always on pet/chicken forums) about Diatomaceous Earth and its safety, I happen to be browsing medical sites to find answers to my own thoracic interstitial problems, and I fell upon this paragraph (cited below). I want to share this because even though a chickens...
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    A silkie on 16 fertile eggs found today - mid-November!

    Bad time to get broody in the Northeast -- we are headed into winter! I somehow missed this nest, and now 13 of them are already developing! She is not big enough to cover 13 babies once they hatch, in fact 3 might be all she could cover cause my frizzle is the same size and still with her 3...
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    For Mainers only::: Buying Club for New Country Organics Feed

    If you want organic WHOLE grain feed for your livestock, with probiotics and fermented products already added, then you want to order with us. Shipped to Lebanon, with buyers as far north as Bangor area, we order from NCO once a month. 50lb bags are just $26.50 (chicken, other feeds available...
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    Unrefrigerated fertile egg yolks break easily and seem soupy

    I need to find out why my unwashed/unfridged egg yolks are so loose and immediately break and run once I crack the shell? None of my unwashed eggs have ever made it past 3 weeks of age, and I wondered if that was too long. But, I just scrambled some from within the last week and they too had...
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    What is that special bedding I've read about?

    Somewhere on here I read a comment about a special chicken bedding.. I don't think it was Dry Stall, but something else that is special for chickens. Now I can't find the comment to recall the name. Any idea what it might be and where to get it? Thanks!
  7. Newbiechickchic

    New to this.. so many questions!

    We finally have a home with fields, a barn, a coop... the life I've waited years for! I've wasted no time getting started with barnyard animals.. one glimpse of Spring and now I have 2 ducks and a flock of adult chickens I just got from someone on Craigslist. I almost went with chicks, but...
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