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so, i blasted into chicken-keeping last year (and was on this forum all the time for a while; thanks everyone for the advice et al!) with fifteen hatchery chicks, all heavy breed layers (RIRs, BPRs, BOs, AOs, and PPRs) and all pullets (except for that one little sexing mistake *cough*). i...

i haven't posted here since my flock were chicks, but everything's been going swimmingly. my flock is happy and healthy and beautiful, a bunch of fat, sassy girls and their fearless leader, bob the rooster. about two months ago, i noticed that one of my barred rock pullets, peanut, had cloudy...

i suspect from my reading that this is within the range of normal, so i'm not looking for reassurance here. mostly, i'm just venting. my buff orp hen, felicity, who came wandering out of our woods one day last may and promptly went into a heavy moult, has been laying well all summer. we noticed...

my mum was perusing our local craigslist last night and came across this posting, which made us both laugh uproariously and i thought was worth sharing: http://burlington.craigslist.org/grd/824552027.html I believe I have the most dysfunctional flock of layers this side of the Mississippi. No...

after a little over two months of waiting (and i'm not a patient person in general), our chicks arrived today. the post office called before 7am. i'm also not a morning person. but my kids and mum and i dashed out the door in record time to retrieve our babies. these guys came from my pet...