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    Yeah; if only chickenitis came with some carpentry skills as a side-effect! I am so lame at building stuff, but at least I try! Gotta go finish the chicken tractor...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Thanks for the replies; I would LOVE to leave her alone, but our nest boxes are metal and 36 inches from the ground, and not very spacious. I may wait until dark tonight and move her to the rabbit hutch, or even better, I may "fence" around the box that's in the coop and put her in there until...
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    Texas

    Hi, y'all! I'm east of Temple in Zabcikville. I've been semi-lurking here on BYC for a little over a year, and have suddenly had a run-in with some messed up chicken math. I have 12 hens, 1 rooster (bound for freezer camp), 1 duck, 15 chicks in the brooder (5 BO, 5 RSL, 5 blue silkies), and now...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Hi, everyone! I'm normally just a lurker, but my broody's been hatching right along with you all. We're on day 18, due to hatch Friday, and I'm getting excited! Bertha has 11 eggs under her; I candled 3 on day 15, and all were doing great. I've seen a couple of posts on BYC about hens who got...
  5. My Broody Bertha, giving me as close to a stink eye as Bertha ever gets. She's a sweet girl!

    My Broody Bertha, giving me as close to a stink eye as Bertha ever gets. She's a sweet girl!

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    Egglaying while asleep on roost?

    My hen has laid once from the roost bar; it was during a time when she didn't have a proper nest box and would hold onto as many as 3 eggs at a time until she just couldn't hold them anymore, then lay all at once. (People have actually laughed at me or told me I was being punked, but I saw her...
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    THREE EGGS this morning from ONE awesome Black Minorca

    She did it again today, and I watched her do it! Gonna start keeping records and see if a pattern emerges. Once again, she waited four days, then laid three eggs at once. Whassupwithischicken?
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    THREE EGGS this morning from ONE awesome Black Minorca

    Quote: THAT is hilarious! I guarantee that there is NO way anyone is doing this, other than Bob the Super Chicken. She laid two more this afternoon! That's half a dozen eggs in three days. We live in the middle of nowhere, we only buy green or brown eggs from our current source, and my...
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    THREE EGGS this morning from ONE awesome Black Minorca

    The thing is, the night before we found the three, I raked all the bedding in the coop trying to see if there were any buried eggs, since she hadn't laid in four days. I had resigned myself to the thought that maybe she was too stressed or was going into a moult, and then all three eggs...
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    THREE EGGS this morning from ONE awesome Black Minorca

    What the HECK? My son ran to the coop after an errand this morning, and our 1-year-old Black Minorca hen had laid THREE eggs! She's been stressed because she's now in the coop with our 10 babies (12 weeks, all brown egg layers... my dad was sure they had just started laying, but we had three...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Hi, can anyone tell me if this roo is Ameraucana at all? He was free, and his previous owner said he was, but looking at some of your photos, I have my doubts. Thanks for any help you can offer!
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    Cookie Tin water heater

    This is SUCH a great thread, thanks so much for the detailed instruction! We had a freak snowstorm and four-day freeze last week, and I made one of these on about day 3 (after I got tired of taking little water bowls out to my kids a few times a day ), and it worked great that last day before...
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    Odd Pre-Laying Behavior

    My Black Minorca hen, Bob, just started laying 10 days ago (at 40 weeks!). She was laying an egg every other day, so yesterday I let my flock of two (Bob and Big Red, her Ameracauna roo) out of the coop to range. I watched out my kitchen window as they (silently) jumped up in the coop, and she...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    We got free "mystery" chicks in July, which makes my -- I think, Black Minorca -- hen around 40-44 weeks, and we found our first pretty, white egg this morning!! I think I may be catching chicken fever... http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?id=1620496655&pid=1611134&fbid=1690544996383
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