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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksWe recently raised 3 Plymouth Rock X chicks down one the kitchen table. Now at 7 weeks, it appears we have 2 roosters and one hen. It was... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksSure fire way to know if you have a hen. If it lays eggs it's a hen. If it crows it's likely a rooster. Although I had a hen once that crowed. I...
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksGood article! I find the wing sexing method at 2 days old to be very accurate and it helps not letting you get too attached to that little... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksThanks a lot for this comprehensive and useful article, particularly about colour-sexing. In my experience, however, 10 weeks is too young to... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksThis article was very helpful! I have found that the shape of the feathers is a great way to figure it out. We believed one of our chickens was a...
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks:thumbsup Thank you for such a great article!! I’ve heard of the wing sexing before and tried...
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your ChicksYour posting’s and tips are very helpful .I’d like to see more post about quail eggs and guinea...
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Common egg quality problems
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Approximately 2% of all chicken eggs have some defect, ranging from minor, barely noticeable faults to downright alarming deformities. So the... -
Chicken Behavior The Ignorant Gal's Guide To Things No Sane Person Would Tell You About Chickens
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Noodle, contemplating scratching, Pepper, armpit deep in a hole, and Salt, who has just found something that needs excavation. The Ignorant... -
Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry
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Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions... -
Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!
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Dear esteemed colleagues, there is a well-known and documented phenomenon known as “Chicken Math” effecting our coops, though there is little... -
Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors
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My early brooders Six years ago when I got my second batch of day-old baby chicks, I thought I had arrived at the ultimate solution for a... -
Interesting Facts About Chicken Eggs
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What Happens When Chickens Molt?
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Molting refers to the shedding of feathers. It is the natural process of losing and re-growing feathers. Most all birds do it including chickens... -
Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken Eggs
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CANDLING PICS: Progression Through Incubation Thanks to ZooMummzy, I am doing a test run of my little plywood bator and her little rooster... -
Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens
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CHICKEN TREATS This is a list of almost everything you can feed a chicken. However, everybody's chickens have their own tiny brains full of... -
The Egg song, it’s not about the egg; it’s an escort call.
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In the normal course of events free range chickens move around their territory as a group. The focal point of these groups is the senior rooster... -
Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day
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THE MULLIGAN
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*~*~WARNING~*~* This is a VERY long, PICTURE HEAVY coop build article. Brew a pot of coffee, get comfy and enjoy (I hope!) Less than one year into... -
How Much Room Do Chickens Need?
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Ten Reasons You Should Spend Ten Extra Minutes With Your Flock Every Day
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Let’s be honest: In the summer, when it’s hot and humid, it can sometimes discourage us from spending as much time with our flock as we normally... -
Buff Orpingtons Chicken Breed Information Pictures
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BUFF ORPINGTON HENS Revised 1/5/12 the Scarlett Johanssons of the chicken world... Raising Buffs as an entertaining, fun complement to a... -
Do ducks like boats?
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So, this story starts with my neighbors wanting to get rid of an old dilapidated boat. She just wanted it out of their yard. It had a good motor... -
How To Raise Chickens
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Raising Chickens 101 BYC (BackYardChickens) has TONS of fantastic information on all aspects of chicken keeping, combined with a wealth of... -
Who is Laying.....and Who is Not? Butt Check!
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I've typed this out many times in the past few days, so decided to put it in an article so I can link it in responses. Got pullets newly laying...