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    Vodka for chickens?!

    I believe it’s from a Grit magazine. I don’t remember what issue and couldn’t find the magazine. I usually save them all but I have moved house since posting this originally. But you might be able to find the orginal article on their website. Grit was the only magazine I was actually subscribed...
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    Indio Gigante journey

    Have you measured your male and females? I believe males should measure in at 38” or above and females are 36” or above. I have been breeding this breed for a year or two now. My males measure in at 40”. I rehome any who are under the standard to be sure to preserve the breed.
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    I would do a blood test to confirm. Or have a vet, if you have access to one, do a full panel. I also think there are places online you can send blood samples and they’ll do tests for you. BirdIQ might be one of them.
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    Impacted crop

    I have a hen that has a large mass of hay in her crop. Massaging doesn’t break it down because it’s hay. She has been off food and only has grit and water in her cage. But nothing seems to be helping. I can get the impaction to go down but she brings it right back into her crop. She’s making the...
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    What color?

    This was very informative. Thank you. Heres an actual picture of him. He escaped his run yesterday and got into the deeper part of the mud. So he’s pretty dirty. I have been seeing some of my chicks come out with spots their heads. But I thought it was from my Easter egger pen. I have a barred...
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    What color?

    I’ll have to get one of him in the morning. But here’s GFF picture. He looks like this hen but much bigger.
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    What color?

    She is in a pen with a mechelen turkey head male. The only male in there. So these are her babies from the cross. The grey blue ones. Not the brown chipmunk ones.
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    What color?

    Can you explain the genetics? Thats why I’m here after all. I can look at the papers all day but sometimes I just someone to explain.
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    What color?

    He’s a turkey head. I’m not sure if his coloring would be considered barred but he looks barred
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    What color?

    Can you be more specific as to why it’s dominant white? I just keep being told that and my understanding of dominant white is very rudimentary. Besides white leghorns. And no matter what I breed my leghorn to the chicks are always white. This girl produces light blue chicks.
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    What color?

    What color would this hen be? I had some people tell me she was dominant white. But she is more of a light blue color in person. These pictures really don’t do her justice. I also bred her with a barred male and the chicks came out the same color as her. Does dominant white make chicks blue...
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    Guineas fighting with chickens

    Okay. So they just see my chickens as another member of their flock causing them to squabble the way they would with each other. I have that about right?
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    Guineas fighting with chickens

    They are still young. I purchased them as keets over the summer. I absolutely adore them but they are so different than my chickens. I had noticed they were starting to fight among each other and just thought it was puberty or something. I don’t know why they have singled out only a few of my...
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    Guineas fighting with chickens

    They were brood with three bantam chicks that also free range. These three chickens, a rooster and two hens, roost with the guineas on nice nights and eat out of their coop. The guineas will not roost in the coop and instead roost on the runs. I gave up trying to get them to roost in the coop...
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    Guineas fighting with chickens

    There is wind protection on the runs right now and they look through the little space there is by the door. I can’t block that off because we need to be able to access the door.
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