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Last login: 15 hours agoSillydog2112: Marie is a 35 year old woman in a relationship from Portland, Oregon, USA.; Likes 758 pages, 41 videos, 18 photos • 97 fans • Received 16 reviews; Member since Jun 26, 2007

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Hendersons Chicken Breed Chart: May 11, 11:36pm 2 reviews agriculture, birds, chicken, chickens, animal-husbandry
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html; Super awesome chart on breeds of chicken, including some very rare ones.

BackYardChickens Forum / Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures: Apr 15, 11:50pm 1 review birds, advice, forum, chickens, fowl
http://backyardchickens.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=10; If you've got a chicken emergency, like I've got here today, this is a GREAT place to get some information, though take it w/ a grain of salt. If you wouldn't do that to your kid, you p'bly wouldn't do it to your bird. Also, I'm not entirely sure asprin is o.k. for birds. Either way, cross your fingers for poor Maggie. Fergie got a good scare and lost some feathers, but nothing like the gaping wounds on my sweet Maggie bird, just one day off her Spring broody. I'm just sick.

COOP DREAMS: Mar 25, 5:10pm 2 reviews agriculture, animals, chickens, animal-husbandry, chicken-keeping
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/16980386.html; Finally, a nice, balanced article about urban chickens. You know I'd be despondant without mine, and everybody except the cat people seem to love 'em. I consider Portland's rule very reasonable, as 3 hens just isn't anyone's damn business, as it's just really not a thing. Moreover, I'd challenge anyone not to love my lovely Fergie bird, who is sweeter than stevia and a BBH who loves me almost as much as dandilion greens. Almost. It's so true about them tasting about a thousand times better, too.

Registration - TwinCities.com: Feb 24, 10:29pm 1 review liberties, minnesota, chickens, jerk, st-paul
http://www.twincities.com/soucheray/ci_8344015; Actually, I don't like this at all, but SU doesn't work that way. This is one of the lamest pieces I've ever read from this alredy lame columnist who is better served discusing the virtues of one sports team or another. Clearly he knows nothing of how the natural world or the world outside his suburban community works. I'm so angry, I'm going to write several damn letters. I suggest passing this shit around and getting other people to flood his in box, too. that's angry letters to a very poor, name-calling journalist without a clue to: jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com In fact, I'd call his editor and ask for his head if I had a cel phone. I bet you do. I did, however make a very long comment in two pieces since I can be quite the gas bag when excited, and nothing gets me more excited than idiots attacking the thing nearest and dearest to me: sustainable ag. Sorry, Matt.

The Charms of Duckweed: Jan 8, 2:36pm 1 review agriculture, animals, birds, chickens, alternative-crops
http://www.mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/duckweed.htm; Wow - more protein than soya (Glycine max) by dry weight and massive yields while soaking up nutrition run amok. Wow! Good replacement for fish meal in chicken feed, or you can feed to fish.

CHICKEN FEED: Traditional Knowledge and Methods: Jan 8, 1:04pm 2 reviews agriculture, birds, diy, chickens, urban-agriculture
http://www.lionsgrip.com/traditional.html; I totally feed my birds good scraps like this all the time -- they've been polishing off some cheeze tortilini that wasn't a hit from a before Xmas party - they eat 'til they're full but will pork up on junk food just like us. I also pick dandiliion greens and chickweed from the neighbours yards and feed liberally for colour and vitamins in winter eggs. Flax meal increases omega-3 oils in the yolks (they avoid the seeds). I make my own whenever I run out of pellets, since I always run out of feed on the weekend, when the feed store is very reasonably closed. Just avoid collecting by busy roads. You get everything they eat in your eggs, through a chicken filter.