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    Do I absolutly need a rooster with my hens?

    I had two large breed roosters and had to keep them seperated. I finally sold both, since they would over mate with my tiny silkies. Will my free ranging hens be o.k.? How should I care for them now?
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    Are small-tiny blood drops safe to eat?

    Some of my customers and I, have found tiny blood drops in my eggs. I just dig them out with the shell, and go on. But they are asking. What do you say/do? (And yes I know that means they are fertile.But is that bad? )
  3. Nashonii

    Incubator Humidity range for day 1-18

    In the article on incubation there is a huge range for humidity "for days 1-18 28-50./. humidity. " How can that be? Is that a missprint?
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    What causes heavy mucus in eyes and how to stop it

    Ever since one of my hatchlings was hatched his eyes have produced a lot of mucus and narrowed. After warm water compress and Vaseline around the eye, the mucus comes off and he can see. After working three days and not compressing, this is what I found. The left eye completely closed and...
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    What causes this and how to stop it please

    Ever since one of my hatchlings was hatched his eyes have produced a lot of mucus and narrowed. After warm water compress and Vaseline around the eye, the mucus comes off and he can see. After working three days and not compressing, this is what I found. The left eye completely closed and...
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    Looking for duck breeds here

    This site is so all exclusive, surely it has every breed of duck also. I'm looking for the name of a backyard duck I have seen and am infatuated with. WHERE CAN I FIND It HERE?
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    Closed eye lids

    I had several chicks hatch over the Christmas holidays and I had to work. I finally had time to really look at it today, and saw that two chicks have their eye lids ' glued ' shut. Looks like as they dried out from hatching the eye lids just dried shut. They 3-4 days old now. What can I do to...
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    Needed:white Silkie, sizzle, or Polish too in NWAr.

    A Hawk killed my only silkie/sizzle rooster while he was protecting his girls two days ago. They are lost without him so I need to replace him. I'm looking for either a silkie, sizzle/silky, or Polish rooster for sale in my area.I am in Fayetteville, AR. please contact me if you have one...
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    I'm back & probably doing this wrong...

    I've been away for a while tending my herd. Now that I'm back, a few things have changed, so I'm sure I will have a few things to learn about posting and getting I a new forum (and saving it to my page). But all the while I have been telling chicken people about this site ("I learned everything...
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    Need immediate help for head tucking

    I NEED a chicken person in my circle! I have an immediate question. Don't have time to look through the site for a possible solution. I found one of my Silkies trying to tuck her head under her right wing and looking disoriented yesterday. She would even do a front roll. She and three other...
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    White silkie/sizzles near Fayetteville, AR.

    Hi all. I'm looking for Sizzles. I had some cute little ones, then had a raccoon bandit! Killed all of my 8 before I got the hotwire working. (Took 2 lines.). Since it's been months since I bought them, (and I bought all the white silkies the lady had), I hate to call her back for more. Has...
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    Fayetteville here- looking for

    Hi all. I'm looking for Sizzles. I had some cute little ones, then had a raccoon bandit! Killed all of my 8 before I got the hotwire working. (Took 2 lines.). Since it's been months since I bought them, (and I bought all the white silkies the lady had), I hate to call her back for more. Has...
  13. Nashonii

    Looking for Marans in Arkansas

    I live in Fayetteville,AR. and am looking for some Wheaton Marans eggs or pullets. Bought some Wheaton roos, and black hens from a local, not knowing anything, and being told they were black copper. Now that I know the diff. and have my flock downsized, I am looking for the real thing. The...
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    Marans eggs

    I'm looking for some Marans eggs to encubate. Black copper Marans are what I like, but dark eggs are what I am looking for. I have just stated to encubate some Amaracana eggs, to be ready to go outside this spring. I can enclude these as along with them. Does anyone have any eggs around...
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    Free baby Roos for NW Arkansas

    I have 3 baby Black/Wheaton Marans males and would like to give them to anyone who can come and pick them up. One of them has an extremely twisted beak, and my work schedule is such that I can't take care of him. So far he is keeping up with the 3 week old that is fine, but the day is comming...
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    Chicken Breed delima

    As I really got into chickens and a became a hatchalic, I initially wanted to sell chicks to make some of my feed -money back. So I bought same pure Ameraucana chicks. It seems that many people had the same idea. As I look in Craigs List there are about 5 other people who have Ameraucana chicks...
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    Creating a beautiful Olive Egger

    Has anyone experimented to see which produces the most beautiful olive eggs: The off spring from a Maran rooster to an Ameraucana hen, OR An Ameraucana Rooster to a Maran hen? I have the breeds and want a beautiful Olive egger. Ideas?
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    How many is too many?

    One of my hens went broody so I decided to let nature take it's course. She laid three eggs. Soon there were a dozen eggs under her, then I saw another hen laying beside her. There had gotten to be so many eggs that she needed help setting on all of them. They have even recruited the guinea hen...
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    How do you get the 'wild taste' out of free range chickens?

    Another title would be: " How do YOU cook your roosters? Need recepies. We skinned the first of our 'bad boys'. We let him set for 2 days in the refreg, (to let the muscles relax), then in the freezer. We are new to this, and have only cooked this one so far. We put him in a slow cooker for 12...
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    What makes what question.

    My Wheaton Marans was bread to my black Marans hen. One of their off spring roos, looks like a Black copper Marans, (no blue or brown like his dad). Q1.) I'm wondering if the coloring looks like a Black copper IS IT a Black copper, or a Wheaton mix? Q2.) The roos is just turning 6 months...
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