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    Ended Contest #3 Cutest Baby Fowl - 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    I know I live in Hawaii, but if I were to possibly win, I would not be shipping the coop to myself but to my mother in Texas who really wants to try having chickens. I hope that's allowed but if not, I understand! These babies are all so adorable!!! It makes me want to go to the feed store with...
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    How reliable is the egg float test?

    I just crawled under my house and found a ton of chicken eggs my girls have been laying for goodness knows how long. I tried putting them in water and they all sank and lay flat on the bottom. Is the float test super reliable? I don't even know how long they have been laying under there. Maybe...
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    Weird eggs, then no eggs, then months of squatting, sitting and singing - still no eggs!

    I have 18 birds on one acre which I bought from a friend of mine. She's a trusted friend, so I believe her when she says they are 1 year old. One is a sweet little Ameraucana. When I got her a few months ago, she laid the prettiest color blue eggs, but they looked odd. They were thin-shelled...
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    How to catch a loose hen with 13 chicks?

    I just thought I would post an update. We have no fencing to catch them in, so we tried tying a string to the door of a dog crate and standing back a ways after putting food in the crate. Eventually, some chicks wandered in and we pulled the door shut. Long story short, I went back at night with...
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    How to catch a loose hen with 13 chicks?

    My friend moved out today and gave me her laying hens because she can't take them with her. Unfortunately, one of the hens she has is a mama with 13 chicks and a neighbor let them out just before the guy buying the coop came to pick it up, so now there's no coop and a mama hen running around...
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    New hens attacking my chicks

    Thank you! The friend who gave them to me has some fencing supplies and corrugated roofing, so I'm building a small enclosure for them next to my coop to live in for a while. She has some nest boxes I can have as well. I can free-range the big girls as I live in the country on a well-fenced (...
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    New hens attacking my chicks

    I have seven ~13 week-old speckled Sussex chicks who I absolutely adore. A friend of mine is having an emergency and needed to have her chickens gone by tomorrow. The person who was supposed to show up never did, so I drove over to her house tonight and got the hens. There are four of them and...
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    Aloha from Hawaii!

    I have been wanting chickens for years and just got started a few months ago. I'm still looking around for forum rules, etc. I built a coop out of scraps in the garage and some purchased chicken wire. I have two pretty little hens: an Easter egger and a Rhode Island Red. These girls are my...
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