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    The eggs song or alarm?

    Sounds like egg song to me. Sometimes my girls will sing even on days they aren't laying. I also have a hen who hasn't laid yet who has started "singing backup" for her sister, I think it's a sign that she will start laying soon since I've read that they may practice before starting to lay. That...
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    Fancy Chickens Thread. Show Off Those Fancy Birds!!!

    The Countess Kombucha Flagrante, white crested black polish. A fierce girl who got picked on in her early days but now will peck into submission anybody who gives her grief. She went through an intense molt recently where she lost all her head feathers and looked like a dinosaur. Born April...
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    Fancy Chickens Thread. Show Off Those Fancy Birds!!!

    Tina Belcher Snow, our buff laced polish. She likes to chatter a lot when it's time to go in the coop at night. The Switzerland of our flock who hangs out with both her polish sisters and our welsummer + cochin duo. Born April 2020 but no eggs yet!
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    Fancy Chickens Thread. Show Off Those Fancy Birds!!!

    Leia Organa Eggs, our golden laced polish. Her crest has some soft baby feathers in this photo because she was molting. She is bottom of the pecking order in our flock but is also the first of our three polish hens to start laying.
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    Wide shallow coop: good idea? Bad idea?

    I have been continuing to work on my coop and run plan. I changed the coop dimensions to 5'x10' instead of 4'x10. Would an extra foot be enough to give chickens space from each other when walking back and forth in front of the roost bar? The distance between the roost bar and the chicken door to...
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    Wide shallow coop: good idea? Bad idea?

    Hi everyone, I'm a newbie currently working on the design for my first chicken coop. My partner and I have 6 chickens coming home to us in the middle of July. 3 are bantams and 3 are standard size. We're in zone 9b, northern California, so no snow but we do get frost and the occasional freeze...
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