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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    There's a guy on YouTube (Rob Anderson) who does hysterical movie reviews, making fun of every movie he does. Bad reviews are way more entertaining than good reviews, so that would definitely be the way to go.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Oh, jeez, I'm sorry to hear that.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have two game stags (and two game hens) and I'm told game hens are great for broodiness, so hopefully the game/leghorn cross will work.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    When I'm texting my son, my phone automatically provides "potato" when I type in "sweet" because apparently it has learned that I sometimes call him that.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Update: After the first chick hatched, the barred rock who has been doing relief duty climbed into the nest box and sat on the chick and other eggs while the broody hen went to the feeder to get some dinner. When I left, they were both back in the box.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I'm going to leave them be for tonight because I'm not sure the best way to do that with my particular coop set-up. But in the meantime... I have a barred rock who I've seen twice sit on the eggs while the buff orp foraged for a few minutes. I just went down to check and there was Helen squeezed...
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    Are you new to raising chickens ?

    Welcome! Some chicks won't make it and that's hard. And later some will die for other reasons. I figure I'm giving them a great life in the meantime, and it's such a rewarding way to spend your time and energy (and, to be fair, money).
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Three weeks ago I collected up a few eggs from the leghorns who are housed with the game stag and from the game hens and stuck them under Eula, my broody buff orp. Today she was out of the nest box and I lifted her up to find htis little guy! I clearly didn't think this plan through, and now I'm...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Absolutely - this one was only mid-build, so I'm keeping the door shut in the day time for now.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have brown leghorns but I didn't say they would go broody. I think I was told they were disinclined to broodiness.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Totally get that. I just got my leghorns for a free range survival chicken project, so ultimately I want them managing themselves as much as possible.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Then I wish one of them would go broody!
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    My 6 forest chickens have now made it through 2 full weeks of being unsecured at night. I had been leaving the coop open as a shelter, but I closed it up today because a Carolina wren was building a little nest inside on a ledge. Which is primarily a problem because when the new girls get here...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Fantastic! I am excited about getting to the point where I am not sure how many I still have.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Mutts have the advantage of hybrid vigor.
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