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    A Hatching adventure in Icey upstate NY

    This hatching adventure started with a big snow storm. we set eggs in a coordinated hatch with a farm in Pa. I was doing Australorps, they were doing buff orps.. and to make a long story short..it was nerve racking and delightful ..Ive learned over the years, the better you feed your birds in...
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    More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Plunge From Sky in Arkansas

    This story was AOL story from AP. A mystery. There was no new information Sunday on the cause of a massive blackbird die-off, during which an undetermined number of fell from the sky Friday night onto the town of Beebe, northeast of Little Rock. Beginning at around 11:30 p.m., enforcement...
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    A few scenes from twin tiers poultry show Bath NY

    Well Im exhausted but happy. We had a great time today, met up with some BYCers at the show. And a word about Bob Whiney who was running this show..Bob is a person who cares more about people and thier happiness than money or anything else..If everyone was like Bob Whitney the world would be a...
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    tainted feeds

    Has anyone heard anything about the feeds that we use being tainted with salmonella? hillendale and the other mass egg farm were selling thier feeds out to different distributors. A lot of these con-glomorate farms sell thier products out to farm-tractor or other feed suppliers, Ive been...
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    Some scenes from Chemung Co. Fair

    Thought you all would enjoy seeing some of the birds at chemung co fair..It was terrible hot and I sort of dodged around the judging to take some pics, but didnt get eneryone I wanted to. He was taking his time around there as he should so I didnt get some of the silkies and polish and others...
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    Hatching adventure, Snowstorm Tragity and miracle

    I have to give a shout out to Charlie at the wilds of Pa. He did a fantastic job of packing and shipping eggs. I ordered some black orp eggs from him, and to be nice he threw in a couple WO. All was well bator running well and steady. Set eggs out as they arrived at 8 AM and I had them home by...
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    All opinions welcome - Blue egg layers

    To make a long story short ,We have had such a difficult time finding good austraslorps that would not only live the life of riley, but would be well represented and shown and full credit to the founding breeders.Even put out offers for up to 200.00 for a dozen hatching eggs but just not finding...
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    Interesting, - south american blue egg chicken

    I happened across this and thought it was interesting . That is my dream barn that she is standing in. I know nothing whatsoever about these chickens, I have seen them and thier american decendants called a lot of things but never south american blue egg chicken. maybe this bird isnt related...
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    show q. white old english

    These are some real pretty little white old english, my husband said....Lynne....NO! No more bantams. So I window shop
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    Baltimore urban Chicken club blog

    Chin up everybody , you can change these laws, this is another example of an urban group set on keeping chcickens. treat it all as a bump in the road and you are determined this is the baltimore md group http://baltimoreurbanfarming.blogspot.com/2009/06/chicken-club.html
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    You can band together and get laws changed

    Here is a group that worked with townships and all birds banded are exempt from certian laws, this is springing up all over the place ask people in these urban chicken clubs how they got this leg banding deal. In one US city they caved into the chicken .... mad as a wet hen group (not this...
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    pics of Chemung Fair BIS, BOBs

    I took these pics befor people came in to claim thier birds. There is a several second delay with my digital camera, I take a well planned pic, hit the button, chicken moves and then camera takes pic. So sorry about a few of these. Im also sorry camera batterys ran out befor I got to silkies...
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    tour of birds at Chemung Co. Fair NY.

    I love to tour the birds at any show from the county fair to the big shows. I was kind of sad to not see any RIRs there. Thought some of you might like to look too. Im going to go back sun and hopefully get some pics of the cochins and the black birds with horns for a comb. Maybe someone...
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    Chemung Co Fair Elmira NY and a a lesson foir even the seasoned shower

    I will be posting pics of the fair this sunday when the birds come home into quarentine with their ribbons . We are very tired and ready to go bed, a long day as we had other fair entries as well as poultry. There were some very rare breeds represented at this show as well as some old...
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    new member from NYS story

    I live in upstate NY and have had over the years just about every breed of chicken at one time or another. My husband and I have 2 propertys so keep breeding chikens at one farm and potential show birds at the other .We started with leghorns and booted bantams , then rhode island reds, then...
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    New york in the hood

    Hi Im a new i here. Nice to see so many states represented.Wha a great way to meet poultry enthusiasts
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    Hi everybody from NY

    Hi my name is Lynne. My husband and I have had chickens for around 20 years. Over the years we have had just about every breed from leghorns to rhode island reds and an asortment of feather footed breeds. I used to show horses in dressage and warmboods in hand, but got very sick and found I had...
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