6 chickens. ticky problem?
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5.\n3 white. 1 each.\n2 black. 1 each.\n\n          w w w       b b\n             s s           s\n\n\nor u can have two answers. 5 and 0 because chickens can't talk
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This may not be easy seeing as roosters tend to get very excited when approached with a box. They tend to puff up and sometimes they spit. I once had a rooster in my box that was so excited it fainted. I thought it was dead, but after a little CPR it sprung back to life and happily entered my box once again. \n\nUnfortunately, some roosters faint before they even make it into my box...they are old roosters who need a little encouragement to make them crow. Although most roosters crow in the morning, the younger ones will crow at every spring chicken they see. I myself prefer a mature rooster, but one that doesn't faint so easily and isn't so easily distracted by the spring chickens. \n\nAs for my box...it might be a snug fit for a large rooster, but I'm sure he would find it quite accomodating as long as he didn't mind the dampness. It's very clean and no rooster has every complained, although there have been very few occupants.
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Well if I were to guess, I would suppose it was the chicken. I gather this idea from the Bible which says that God created the animals and birds not just eggs for the birds or fowl...\n\nGood luck with your quest! I supppse if you are pondering the great mysteries of life, you might consider this question. If it's a stupid question I have sure heard it asked all of my life. \n\nI know a little bit about chickens, and unless there is a hen to sit on the nest of eggs,  the eggs  would never hatch! They would suffer from cold and then no nurturing if they did happen to hatch. I have watched mother hens and they know a lot when it comes to gathering their chicks up when they feel danger for them. The hen will give them a signal just so the young chicks could all gather around their mother hen so she could fluff her feathers and seem larger and more fomidable while protecting the hatchling chicks.\n\nNot a stupid question, I am only guessing at what I feel explains it for me :)\nruthie~
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That's just turkeys with bird flu. Try to avoid those.
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Take them from egg to the stew pot on how poutry are raised.  Poultry have only one use and that is the dinner table.\n\nSo, then go into describing the processing for poultry, how it is shipped to the shops, and how long it keeps , etc.\n\nThrow in a nice recipe for Chicken Tikka and everyone will have a good laugh too\nOh and bring out the affects of slaughtering have on the amount of germs in a piece of poultry - safe storing and cooking methods too
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Some ticks spread Lyme disease.
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25 pigs and chickens don't got no feet
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You are probably seeing thehead of the tick.. they rarely will come out when burned - you need to get the head out of the skin\n\ncheck out and read the info below
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Smart lady--catch it put in jar--just in case--I do the same thing with wood ticks. I put them in jar with a little alcohol--my guess is it's probably just an albino or a young one--not sure what say beyond that--I'm not a doctor maybe try http://www.webMD.com or http://www.mayoclinic.com/ you could always call a local university and ask for an expert in the biology department. maybe Google "white mosquito" or "mosquito identification." Hope it's not serious. Try not to worry it's probably nothing. Good Luck :-)
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Well, I've never gotten pox and I'm 12 so...I don't know umm...try hard not to scratch, maybe take a shower so you won't feel really itchy? Personally, what I would do if I ever /had/ the chicken pox is tie my hands behind my back.(I'm serious, I would.)
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By how many chickens?\n\n3 chickens will lay 20 eggs in 10 weeks for instance.\nThis is the smallest solution in whole chickens and whole eggs.\n\n(The answer is 10 for a chicken and a half or 6 2/3 for one chicken if we just do the math, but since a half a chicken cant lay eggs and no whole chicken can lay a fraction of an egg I think my answer is best.)\n\nWILL YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE SAYING ITS THE SAME AS 1 EGG PER CHICKEN PER WEEK STOP IT!!  Its NOT.  If a chicken and a half lays an egg in a half in a week and a half, then one chicken lays one egg in a week and a half, 500 chickens lay 500 eggs in a week and a half, 1234 chickens lay 1234 eggs in a week and a half, etc.!!!!
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That's basically fly crap. they lay their eggs on organic material so the maggots can eat off, so unless there's raw meat on your wall you shouldn't have a problem.
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The following comes from our resident veterinary expert, DrMat:\n\nWell, you can't blame the chickens. They started out flying, after all. At least their ancestors did. The ancestor of modern chickens, the wild red jungle fowl (also a darn good name for a rock band), wasn't a great flier, but he could get around when he had to. The entire poultry family (chickens, turkeys, guineas, ducks) are adapted to living on the ground. Their beaks are better adapted to pecking off the ground, their feet to walking instead of perching, and their wings are smaller than other birds their size. \n\nEnter us. We take a perfectly happy wild red jungle fowl and start selectively breeding to produce bigger pectoralis muscles (that's the breast portion, for those of you who only see chickens in buckets) and eventually you get a bird who couldn't get off the ground if they thought of it, which they don't. Chickens comprise some of the thousands of artificial breeds that humans have created. Many domestic fowl, turkeys especially, have such large, um, breast portions, that they can no longer breed normally and must be artificially inseminated. This is a double whammy to the male poultry ego, such as it is. \n\nBottom line: those hot wings you like to wash down with your Pabst are really vestigial limbs. And if you can tell your buddies that at happy hour, maybe they'll let you drive.\n\n\nhope that helps\n=)\n\n\n\nalso i have over 20 chickens and they can jump in the air and stay for about 2 seconds. theyre just too fat and theyre wings are short.
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2 cats, 2 dogs, 2 hens
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Sometimes they can't afford to take care of it (they can't bring enough food to allow the chick's survival).  Othertimes they are stressed, or think for some reason the egg is 'bad', ie the chick is not alive any longer.  It's pretty common.  If the mother gets spooked, she will abandon the nest.
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Get some WD40 and spray em down if they are squeeking or or not moving so well.  Get em moving again and work out the gunk with a rag.
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Roosters don't lay eggs = P