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  1. Sumatra503

    Handmade Chicken Walking Harnesses(Both a Standard and Bantam Size now Available!)

    I've been away from this for a bit, but have now begun making them again. I make these and chicken diapers.
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    Chicken harness?

    I've done a lot with harness training and if the harness is properly fitted they do fine. If it's too tight that's when they start to flop or if it is a harness that hits the crop or interferes with their balance. I spent a while finding a design I liked and that my birds were fine with. Usually...
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    Chicken leashes??

    I have been making and selling chicken harnesses for like six years now and have sold them all over the world. It's pretty common to leash train them and they do quite well. Mine are $15 plus shipping, which is the general price I've seen around lately. I remember being among the first, or at...
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    Comment by 'Sumatra503' in article 'Trimming Your Chicken's Nails - Tutorial'

    The edges aren't sharp once they are trimmed, at least not sharp enough to cut a hen's back and are worn back to a round position pretty quickly as the rooster scratched. They can, however be filed down if you are concerned.
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    What are your current breeding projects? Post Pics, Chat, and Post Your Progress!

    I am currently working on a breeding project for next year that will involve frizzles of various types(mostly Serama Cross) and a few EE/NN bantams. My hope is to produce bantams that are frizzled and lay green eggs. I am also working with Booted Seramas and a couple of other frizzle projects...
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    Eating a sick chicken...What's your take on this?

    I was wondering what you guys thought about butchering and eating a chicken that is sick and openly showing symptoms at the time of butcher. I have a girl who has asked what to do with her chickens that are displaying what we believe to be coccidiosis symptoms and some people are telling her...
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    Kozy Orchard Cuties(Pics and Stories of My Progress With The New Flock!)

    8 new babies!!! Henrietta Turkey went broody and since I don't have a tom I put 10 bantam eggs underneath her from Amanda and Fuzz Butt. She sat on them for the full 21 days and hatched out 8 tiny fuzzies. Since I don't have a pen that is safe for a Turkey hen and bantam chicks to be raised in...
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    Ended Official BYC Article Writing Contest #4

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/trimming-your-chickens-nails-beaks-spurs-tutorial Not quite finished, but here is my first article. Iit is about 1/3 of the way finished and it had like 2,000 words when I last checked, so hopefully it is all helpful stuff...
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    Kozy Orchard Cuties(Pics and Stories of My Progress With The New Flock!)

    My serama babies in the apple tree! Leonardo being carted around in a basket. Ferdinand letting me know he's not amused with having his picture taken.
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    How many days after being mated by a rooster will a hen have fertile eggs?

    Thanks, that did help. I know how to tell fertile from not and such, but I had been getting rudely called a liar for saying that an egg collected two days after breeding from one of my hens had hatched when incubated, so I sort of doubted myself for a bit.
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    How many days after being mated by a rooster will a hen have fertile eggs?

    So, this question has just come up and I have seen it answered three ways. One says not for 3 weeks. One says 8 days. I was told the second egg laid after mating. So now I'm confused... Having not been with a rooster, how long after the first mating until a fertile egg is laid? My internet...
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