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    Pink eggs!

    I just got a VERY pink one today! I’m pretty sure it’s from one of my barred rocks. I have three ameracaunas that lay the blue-green eggs, one buff mix that lays tan ones, and the barred rocks normally lay shades of tan but today one had a pink coating over the tan!
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    Tiny crying chick

    I just got a dozen chicks from the feed store yesterday, including one that looked like the "runt", knowing that he probably wasn't okay but wanting to give him a loving home anyways. He has scissor beak, he's about half the size/length of the other chicks, his eyes don't fully open, and he...
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    New chicken keeper in Texas

    Thanks for the information! Fortunately we have REALLY sandy soil on our land even though it's in the middle of a national forest - like our driveway looks like a white-sand beach driveway.. so that'll be easy to come by. I like the idea of just keeping it hosed down and keeping a fan near by so...
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    New chicken keeper in Texas

    I'm near Willis in the Sam Houston National Forest. I spent a good five years in College Station though :). You never really get used to the heat (or the humidity), you just learn to deal with it or stay indoors. I'm a little concerned for my chicks though. Obviously they're very shaded in their...
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    New chicken keeper in Texas

    Hi! I moved out onto 10 acres this summer and decided I wanted to raise chickens, so a friend gave me a few Rhode Island Red / Ameraucana eggs to incubate and I hatched 5 chicks at the end of July. They're now about 6 weeks old, and I'm pretty sure at least two are baby roos. I just finished...
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