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    Eggsiting day here!!!

    So after almost a week of 3 eggs a day today there were 4 & the 1 new egg is a different shade of the other 2 "greens" & also twice the size of all the others so I know it came from our Brahma/Ameraucuna! Now to keep fingers crossed that our little girl lays us a bright blue shell...
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    Eggsiting day here!!!

    Another today!!! Pink tinted so its from the orpington/ameraucana so yesterday's layer was the black!!!
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    What is this chicken thinking?

    What are my gals thinking???? They have a huge 4ft length of roost available.... but they have to all be in the top nest box????
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    Eggsiting day here!!!

    1st egg!!!!!! Now which one laid it? They all hatched out Aug-Sept so the only one I would rule out is the smallest who has been molting out her fuzzy feathers the past 4 days!
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    What is this chicken thinking?

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    Keeping The Coop Warm In The Winter

    The cinderblock waterer heater hubby built me is awesome!!! waterer no longer freezing, coop stays warmer (running 2 60watt bulbs) & now I only have to have the heat lamp on for a few hours in the early morning to simulate extra daylight for laying, so it's actually cut my "costs" in 1/2!!!! & I...
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    What is this chicken thinking?

    Caption this gem! My 4-5mth old gals outside for the first time in their lives! (Just brought them hm last wknd & have had them locked in the henhouse. They were in a stall in a barn b4 that!
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    Easter Egger club!

    A couple of my babies are showing fuzzy cheeks & atleast Cream I think will stay fuzz free
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    Keeping The Coop Warm In The Winter

    this is our 1st winter with hens, so while we did lots of research & built our henhouse with winter in mind. We are finding some things just aren't working as well as we'd hoped. Coop is insulated &we put in a heat lamp & put our waterer directly under the lamp. The henhouse itself seems to be...
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    My Wichita Coop Build

    oh my I am new on here & when we were researching how to build our coop I used some of the Wichita Coop ideas. Infact our coop is featured on their fb page! so I started reading your thread I cried when I read about your fire. I can't believe what you went through. I will go follow your new...
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    Water freezing

    Plywood under the cinderblock (so I can remove the whole "heater/holder" in spring) hubby scewed the recepticals & their boxes to the plywood, glued the cinderblock to it, electrical taped up the hole for the cord so shavings & dust can't get inside. then the tile just sits on top. I cleared the...
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    Water freezing

    Our latest cold snap it got down into the mid to low minus 30 Celsius temps & its not uncommon for it to stay in the minus 20's for days going on weeks.
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    Water freezing

    So just the heat lamp isn't keeping our water from freezing on the gals so yesterday hubby built a cinderblock heater/water holder. There is light recepticles in both "holes".Can't wait for the glue to finish curing so I can put it in this afternoon!!!
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    Easter Egger club!

    Hmmm I may have to head to UFA tomorrow for a sack of scratch, (I feed 17% layer ration w/a 2nd feed tub available in the henhouse of DE) but I can make room in my feed tote for a sack of scratch to be used as a "treat/bribe"! When we caught them on Sunday & when I pulled them from the travel...
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    Easter Egger club!

    I was not wanting to stress them out too badly with settling into a new home & letting them get used to just being the 5 of them, (they all hatched out between Aug-Sept so there is some size difference & 1 is definately alot smaller than the others) I didn't want to push holding them right from...
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