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    Building new coop

    @Beekissed has great points. Birds bred for high production tend to suffer excessive health issues, whether they be high egg production or meat and their lifespans are considerably shorter than dual purpose or those for show. If your absolutely set on comets, you may want to consider starting...
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    Maine

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    Maine

    You're welcome! I personally prefer the unfiltered honey but I love the non-invasiveness of harvesting from these flow hives. They were developed by a father/son team in Australia. I'm not sure how they'd hold up in our climate but here's the link to their site and I see they're also selling...
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    Maine

    My family kept bees when I was little, using my great grandfather's old hives. We had many hives for a couple of years before losing them. I don't remember what we lost them to but I would love to try again. I remember it being such a process, with the suit and smoker, etc. and especially...
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    Maine

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    Maine

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    help!! something really strange is going on

    Those are both pullets. Plymouth Barred Rock females are darker than the males and at 6 months the males have visible long, thin, pointy feathers around their necks, called hackle feathers. Those same types of feathers will grow in from between their wings and drape over their sides. Those are...
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    Maine

    I missed this question before. You know I share your love of Doms. I also loved my Golden Spangled Hamburg. They're great layers, free-rangers; they do fly really well and would take to the trees when there was any threat on the ground (which I really liked) and the first to sound the...
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    Maine

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    Maine

    I just did a quick search; there's one place in Clinton listed on the Livestock Conservancy site that offers hatching eggs of several heritage breeds and other breed specific sites with their own directories.
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    The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

    Oh, it was. He charged straight for it with hackles raised and when it didn't respond he picked it over for bugs. It was a knotty piece of wood and I suppose with a little stretch of the imagination, it had a similar shape to a rooster with a big tail so naturally, it really needed to be...
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    Maine

    I don't give artificial heat/light so my flock has the winter off from laying but they should start up by then. I've sent you a pm with more details.
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    Maine

    I will have Dominique hatching eggs in the spring and am in the mid-coast area.
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    The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

    My current boy is one of those good guys from the start. I didn't get him until he was 5 months and he hadn't yet reached the age of interest in the girls. There was one day around 7 months that he was a little aloof, charged a piece of firewood but lost interest when it didn't respond and was...
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    The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

    Some of my hens get really overzealous when getting handfed treats - particularly those who are the most people-oriented but that's when Ichabod becomes even gentler than he normally is...if you can imagine that!
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