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    Spring is here!!!

    At least in my book. I've had all the ladies I have now for 2 and 3 years. One of my elders has now laid 2 eggs in the past 3 days. They NEVER lay unless the cold snap is gone, so IMO, SPRING IS HERE!!!! Just had to share, I'm in OK, BTW.
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    So Grossed Out!!!!

    For me it is definitely a texture thing, and I can tell you exactly where it came from. When I was probably 7 or 8 years old...my mom had a sore throat and was going to swallow a teaspoon of honey out of one of those honey bear bottles to soothe it. She wasn't paying attention and JUST as she...
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    Wow, getting small eggs then.....a LARGE egg!!!

    My SLW and Australorps gave me about 5 double yolkers last year. This year, no double yolks from them or my teenagers. The year before, when I had RIR seniors, they never produced double yolkers. Never know what those ladies will be up to. I think you probably had one miss a day and this egg...
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    Do chickens operate like a dog pack?

    Depends on each individual chicken. My first roo, Billy (Buff Orpington), would eat with the ladies...and would catch bugs and eat himself. The second roo, Christopher (Banty Roo), was quite a gentleman and would let the ladies eat first, and any sort of bug or "wild catch", he would get, call...
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    Which roo to keep? (with pics and descriptions)

    Here's the thing. I would definitely not keep the aggressive one, but the milder one may become aggressive once the other ones are gone and he is then "top roo". I also had 3 roos...2 got into a HUGE fight to the death, so we immediately seperated them and sent them to the feed store to...
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    Zane Made REAL Progress (New Pics Pg 99)!RIP Lorelei...

    It sounds just like what happened with my roo, Christopher William. I only pray your outcome is better. My little boy passed away about a month after he fell stricken like this.
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    Can't break a broody...on infertile eggs! HELP!

    Sorry, but this pic was so hilarious I had to share it with you. This is what you get when you get Daredevil out of her nest...hehehe
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    Can't break a broody...on infertile eggs! HELP!

    What can I do for poor Daredevil? She will NOT break her broodiness...and the rooster we kept after the big rooster fight a few months ago died a week later, so there is NO way these eggs are fertile (roo has been gone for months). She will even sit an empty nest when we take the eggs. She is...
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    Yay, I trained her!

    I sing to my chickens at the end of a free range day and clap..."chickies everywhere let's go to sleep" and they go running toward the hen house and get ready to roost. It's SO cute!
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    Chick moonwalks?

    haha...wait 'til she's grown and does that to scratch...I love chickie moon walks!
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    Will a Bantam Roo mate with a Standard Sized Hen?

    Ah yes...hen surfing. LOL That's what we called it when our Banty Rooster Christopher William would mate our standard breed ladies. He'd literally jump on one of the girls, have to balance like on a surf board...then back up, "daub" and it was done. haha
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    4 hens ,ganging up on my other hen what to do about it ????

    Well, hens do establish pecking order...but to be ganging up on her so hard does seem to be a bit extreme. Are they drawing blood? If so, it could be a nutrient deficiency. An old timer at the feed store told me if they ever pick to the point of drawing blood, to feed them some raw hamburger...
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    Ba-gawking at 3:30 am from my hen?

    That was my first inclination, too, Sea...was that something disturbed her.
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    Buff Orps & egg production

    When mine went broody, no, she didn't lay...and then about a week after the chicks hatched, they went into moult, so basically, my laying season ended early. UGH
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    Chickie chickie rub rubs...um...

    I thought my chickens liked being petted heartily when my mother said that when they squat and press out their wings, they are accepting me as the "alpha" like a roo...and now that I think of it...they do seem to look like they're about to be mated. DOH!!! So, my question is...if I continue to...
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