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    Is this rooster a Golden Nugget or something else?

    These are not great pictures but here is the smaller of the 2 girls: And here is the other one:
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    Is this rooster a Golden Nugget or something else?

    Thank you everyone. I'm so happy to have a name to put to him. I will get pictures of the girls to see what you all think of them.
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    Is this rooster a Golden Nugget or something else?

    We were given 2 females and a male from an employee of my husband's. The man and his girlfriend were breaking up and had no where for the "children" to go so we took them in. The girls are definitely mixes. The smallest looks like a Bantam Barred Rock but she has a few feathers on her feet. The...
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    July Hatch-A-Long

    I have my first baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It just finished coming out of the shell. I did a no-no and had my husband lift the lid long enough for me to snap a picture and take the shell. I have 34 eggs in an incubator that will hold 41. I have an egg turner in it. Was I supposed to take that out...
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    July Hatch-A-Long

    I candled my 6 of 36 on June 18th (Day 5) and I could see veins in 5 of the 6. The 6th was a blue egg and hard to see much. On June 21st (day 8) I candled all 36. 2 were definite duds. I could see veins and such in 15 of the 16 of my white eggs. The 16th had the blood line so I dumped it. The 12...
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    July Hatch-A-Long

    I'm with you!! I have never hatched eggs before so I may not do anything right, but I have to start sometime. I decided to try this because I was cooking Friday night and grabbed eggs off the counter from my last collection. All 6 were not only fertilized but they were runny and looked like they...
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    Newbie questions about Incubating and hatching eggs

    Okay guys, these are some questions that popped in my mind as I have been reading through some of the threads about this topic. I don't really have a broody hen. I have one hen that has gone broody in the past but I don't know how she would do incubating another chicken's eggs. I bought an...
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    Feeding your chickens apples

    I was peeling and cutting apples to dehydrate, so I gave my girls all the skins, cores, and other pieces I had to cut off. They ate all of it but the skins. I don't know if they ate some of them and left the rest or if they didn't touch any of them. They LOVE bananas and watermelon. They will...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    LIES!!!!!! "Pit Bulls" as they are commonly known, and Stafordshire Terrier as to the breed were bred to be work dogs originally. They were cart haulers and ox and bull herders. Then they were bred to be "nanny" dogs. These dogs have great, wonderful, CARING personalities. They were bought by...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    I have the same issue. We have 8 dogs, 4 cats, 4 breeding rabbits, 13 hens, 2 roosters, and a Vietnamese pot-bellied mini pig. We have "friends" that do the same thing to us around new people. I refuse to be ridiculed for being an animal lover. We have a few more dogs/cats than legally allowed...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Got 3 eggs from 3 of my Ameraucanas today. YAY!!! 2 are small and one is really elongated. 2 blue and 1 blue with a pinkish/yellow tinge.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Okay. I went back to post #1. Let's see how close we can get. Page 1 = 103 Page 2 = 310 Page 3 = 96 Page 4 = 181 Page 5 = 149 Page 6 = 164 Page 7 = 234 Page 8 = 205 Page 9 = 250 Page 10 = 128 Page 11 = 229 Page 12 = 263 Page 13 = 221 Page 14 = 149 Page 15 = 108 Page 16 = 283 Page 17 = 376 Page...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Going back to seattle_ray's total, let's try this again.... 4307+47+12+11+63+8+15+22+4+1+9+46+my 20+16+157+8 = 4746 NEW TOTAL = 4746 That should be correct as long as seattle_ray's total was correct. These kind of threads can get confusing.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    4471+ GreenMum's 46 = 4517 4517+ GreenMum's Missed 36 = 4553 4553+ my flock 20 = 4573 I have 20. 4 White Leghorns 2 Barred Rocks 4 Speckled Sussex 4 Ameraucanas 1 Easter Egger Hen 2 Easter Egger Roos 3 Red Sex Links NEW TOTAL= 4573
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    HELP! - Need help with new Roosters

    Well the "helped" rooster is more docile and he is in with my hens at the moment. The EE rooster I was given to breed was set up in his temporary home today. He has a 11'x16' space to roam. Part of it is under our deck next to our house so he is protected from the elements. When it cools off we...
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