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    What is my little brown duckling?

    So what did you wind up with? Cayuga or Khaki? My moneys on khaki!
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    Newly hatched poults can't stand, has floppy neck.

    HELP! We had 6 poults hatch out of 14 eggs, 2 died with in 90 min and 2 others can't seem to stand up. They keep shooting their legs strait out and pushing themselves along the bottom of the brooder on their sides. Their heads seem a little floppy too. I looked up wry neck and this doesn't seem...
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    One of my Australorps gave me a HEART ATTACK today.

    Thanks! Me too! Unfortunately we did just lose our first chicken today and she's been with us since day one she was very the very first ones that we got she was only a year old.
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    Ended 15th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Natural Egg Photo Contest

    Haha! That's what's in my entry too! I was soooo excited! We are up to three a day and I'm like where are these coming from?!
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    One of my Australorps gave me a HEART ATTACK today.

    OK! STORY TIME! So, I have about 6-9 bird that's are early layers and are done by 9 am, then we have the jerks that will lay alllll the way til SIX PM. So, today, I went up to collect the eggs around 4:40 (gotta love DLS and extra day light) and I go left tho right, and I get to the last box to...
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    Bourbon Red Heritage Hatching Eggs

    Hi everyone, So after our BBB Turks sudden escape/disappearance around the 7 week mark, we decided to get Bourbon Red Heritage Turks. So they came in around early July, and started laying Monday March 11th. So, first, it doesn't matter how clean the boxes are, it's been muddy and they're MESSY...
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    Narragansett Turkeys

    Hi, Make sure you have a basic shelter and their free roam are has some sort of fencing. They love wandering and heading into the woods and tree line. We had 10 bronze BB's and they look like wild turkeys and act like it too. One morning I went out there and a piece of wood that kept the coop...
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    Eggs, Winter, and Egg Stands

    Thanks so much! I will bring them in at night and put a rechargeable handwarmer thinger in there during the day... Cuz i just purchased them on amazon. 😅
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    Eggs, Winter, and Egg Stands

    Greetings, So we put up an egg stand 2 weeks ago (finally got it done) and it's been pretty warm for winter in PA zone 7b and barely dips below freezing...until now. This week is suppsoed to be really really cold. We have 2 more months of winter to go and was hoping to keep my nice new...
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    New Favorite Roost!

    I took her out to check how she was doing after i had to clip a slight beak overhang She hopped right up, this is her new fav spot.
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    Comment by 'JennieLamb' in article 'Caring For Chickens in the Fall'

    We found where these lil nuggets were escaping no more tomatoes for them. My one turkey is a different story i caught eating half size green cherry tomato the other day. He isnt very smart.
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    Instruction manual for Brower Incubator 846

    If anyone still has this manual, please let me know I just got one of these.
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    Anyone Use a Brower Incubator?

    I just got one of these and it worked, the seller showed me a vid, but now the light wont turn on and element wont heat. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix, please let me know, gonna take it apart tomorrow.. the only thing i know is that you have to hand turn the eggs and the heating element...
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    Culling/Harvesting Success!

    Somehow I managed to do it I thought I was going to wind up being all talk even after getting the drill plucker and the stand ready and buying the dual sink table for outside I really thought I was going to chicken out. But even though I was violently shaking I gave them hugs I gave them nice...
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    Harvest hesitancy

    I completely understand this because I kept saying I was going to do it I got all the stuff to do it my husband who's in extreme animal lover told me he would refuse to help me and I told him I didn't expect him to help because he wouldn't be able to do it and I knew he couldn't since he...
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    Stacking straw bales around coop for winter?

    Im trying to use strawbales to insulate my coop after I put plastic around the inside of my coop by lining up 4 feet of plastic, and then adding yhe "slices" and slapping more plastic or plywood over but we are near the poconos.
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    wrong spot to lay!

    Make sure you have enough oyster shell mixed in their feed and they gen enough greens as well. We dont close up our feeders in coop at night either.
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    Comment by 'JennieLamb' in article 'Caring For Chickens in the Fall'

    So, when I pull weeds from the garden I always plop them in the run, since we just harvested our turnips, any leaf with a hint of yellow even on the edge, they get. Even after I peel the turnips they get scraps, the tops, the bottoms, and any scraggly leaves and the spines. Most of the "weeds"...
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    Stacking straw bales around coop for winter?

    Try roofing plastic or roofers felt to help with that.
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