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    The Sizzle Thread!

    Thank you, I love her too. She is four months old, and the sweetest little girl ever. I paid $40 for her without a second thought lol. The sweet lady I bought her from was in tears and I felt awful for her, but when she can have chickens again I will be giving her some babies. Your silkies are...
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    The Sizzle Thread!

    Just purchased this awesome little pullet, I've never seen one like her. She is a silver pencilled sizzle. The parents where a silkie over a sizzle. No idea what colour they were but I do know she is the only one they had with this colouring in the entire flock. I'm hoping someone on here with...
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    Question about old hens....

    Wow! Nine is a ripe old age too. There are some special ones that deserve to just live out their days in happiness :)
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    Brower Incubator modle 11670-3 help please

    Just jumping in, we found an old galvanized Brower incubator so I decided to go for it with a test hatch. It worked perfectly, and just hatched out a bunch of healthy Marans chicks. It heated evenly, (I had a thermometer set up at the height of the egg) humidity was fine and all but one hatched...
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    Question about old hens....

    Delayed response haha! She was just a barnyard mix of who knows what.
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    Question about old hens....

    Our old hen just died this past summer and was 14 years old. She laid two eggs in the last month of her life. She didn't have grey feathers but her legs looked pretty gnarly...
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    What Roo for mixed flock?

    Well that's great then, obviously this forum has good info, as a total newbie I got all my info from here, Thanks :)
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    What Roo for mixed flock?

    Just getting into this and have four hens. Two are Rhode Island Red, one splash Marans and one black copper Marans. I want to add to the flock by incubating some eggs, and choosing the best boy for the job. Based on my limited knowledge and research, my best bet is to stick with a black copper...
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    Old chicken laying

    I ate the egg for dinner tonight, it was delicious
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    Old chicken laying

    We have a 14 year old rescue hen that has started laying about 1 or 2 eggs a week. ( she must be happy!) she ate the first few, as she probably has had to over the years for nutritional reasons but has stopped now and leaving them alone. Is there any reason why we shouldn't eat the eggs? She is...
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    Pekin Duck Club!

    I doubt it's a drake feather your seeing at that age, now you may be able to tell by picking each up, ducks will quack loudly drake will be raspy quack. And sometimes the drake will still chirp when the duck is already quacking  [/quote. I have two girls from the same hatch but one starting...
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    Rescued a 14 year old chicken

    [/IMG]. New pictures of Judith settling in
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    Rescued a 14 year old chicken

    We only have the three girls, no intentions on any males in the mix. I may get one more hen. We watched them very closely for the first week. No problems at all, but the run is very large so they all have their own space. The three nap together in a little circle but basically ignore each other...
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    Rescued a 14 year old chicken

    Ping and Pong are sisters :)
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    Rescued a 14 year old chicken

    I am 100 percent positive of her age as she belonged to my husbands elderly uncle. She came from a generations of semi wild flock that had free ranged on his farm for decades. She's the last one left, He just couldn't look after her properly any longer. And if you mean her "hocks" well they look...
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