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    Apple of my eye Valentine's Day Hatch-a-long

    Littlefoot and Treestar are malines, a rare Belgian breed originally imported by Greenfire Farms. We happened on a breeder about 2 hours south of us. They're  big boys!
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    AinaWGSD's Project 365

    Day 38 The Hardee's breakfast biscuit is heart shaped this (?)month. Today is our first show choir competition of the year. Since we were up by 3am and on the road by 4, fast food breakfast it is.
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    Apple of my eye Valentine's Day Hatch-a-long

    No, it's just fun to root for an egg. Besides, these chicks should look pretty similar once they hatch. After they dry off I won't be able to tell most of them apart.
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    Candy-themed Hatch-a-long!!

    I'm about halfway through my valentines day hatchalong and still have several eggs available if you're still looking to join a hatchalong.
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    Apple of my eye Valentine's Day Hatch-a-long

    One week, these babies are due on Valentines Day.
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    AinaWGSD's Project 365

    Day 37 Some cupcakes my husband made last night
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    How do you name a chicken?

    Somehow all of the above and none of the above both at the same time! Mostly I just go by what feels right. I've had a few chickens named for their color. Tiger had stripes as a chick and stripes reminded me of tigers. And we had a Buffy the Vampire Slayer who was, indeed, buff colored. Pepsi...
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    What hatchery has the best buckeyes?

    Looks like Meyer, Valley, Strombergs, and Hoover all offer buckeyes. I've never gotten buckeyes from any of them, so I can't speak to quality. Buckeye breeders can be difficult to track down, it took me about 2 months to find some.
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    Ainawgsd's farm chickens

    Gotta show off some of my favorite shots from yesterday!
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    Ainawgsd's farm chickens

    The wind and meager sunlight and chickens have created a ring of bare dirt around the coop, so it's safe to come outside again! The cockerel with the frostbitten toe has self amputated. He's not limping anymore, but he's definitely low man on the totem pole. And poor Littlefoot is going to...
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    Did I puncture my chickens air sac and kill her?

    I'm so sorry for your loss. :hugs I lost a pullet the same way and it's a terrible thing to witness. You did not cause this. One of the things ascites (fluid build up in the abdomen) does is cause fluid to back up into the lungs and heart. The fluid was already there, the needle did not cause...
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    AinaWGSD's Project 365

    Day 36 Someone's grumpy about the cold! (She's not really, my buckeye girls just have RBF)
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    Aerodynamic eggs.

    It's just a thing that happens. We call those "torpedo eggs." I've incubated some that were that shape and they hatched just as well as the other egg shapes.
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    Why do you raise chickens?

    Because I thought it would be fun. And I was right (I remind myself every time I have to go thaw ice and collect eggs on negative degrees winter days)! It started with us walking past chick bins at rural king and reading the minimum order number. We knew chickens were allowed in our town...
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    Hen or roo?

    Long, thin, pointed hackle feathers✅️ Long, thin, pointed saddle feathers ✅️ Red shoulders✅️ Definitely a boy
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