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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    gives me hope for my Blue Weyandotte who is holding out on us!
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    Q? - starting to Molt now - in January?? Is this normal

    let me start by saying this winter in Nor California is anything but - averaging 70 degrees every day - we did not really have a fall either and have been getting no rain. Noticed over the weekend our Speckled Sussex has suddenly gone all bald under her beak - and a little bald around the...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    lovely - how many chooks do you have? Great that they all went off together!
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    wooo hooo finally!! First egg from Olive Oil our Olive Egger (copper maran/cochin cross). For a first egg this is a good size as it is already bigger than the eggs coming from our Speckled Sussex. So excited - we thought we would get nothing until Spring - as she is well over the 34 week...
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    I've got the pip!

    thanks, also have two Lavender Orps
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    I've got the pip!

    and I am not talking to my sisters LOL
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    How long is too long to wait for first eggs?

    We have 6 chooks - three are still too young, we have one laying (Speckled Sussex) who did not start until 28/30 week mark - but the other two are now well over 30 weeks (Olive Egger and Blue Weyandotte) in fact more like 32 weeks+
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    Oh the indignity!!

    Lily our 14 week old Lavender Orp - has to be preened - as she has a problem with her neck/back. But despite the indignity of it all - she actually seems to enjoy it and preens the bits of herself she can reach - and preens my husband as well!
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2013

    Under Keeping Chickens Warm - I just posted a link to a cool video in New Zealand - of people knitting and sewing jumpers for rescue chickens. If you join the FB page it talks about - it has the patterns, crochet too!
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    How to keep your chicken warm

    just loved seeing this today - what a neat idea http://www.3news.co.nz/Knitting-helping-chickens-recover/tabid/817/articleID/314652/Default.aspx
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    What do you wish you had known before you got your chickens

    don't buy chicks from the new flock of frou frou city farm type shops that are sprouting up everywhere in the big cities. They don't hatch the eggs properly - because it is a whim and they also don't check their hatched chicks for problems. How do I know, paid the price :-(((
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    $$$What is the most expensive chicken you have brought or sold?$$$

    $75 for a 25 week old Blue Wyandotte... now 30weeks plus and no eggs - she is looking like a good dinner ROFL - KIDDING
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2013

    newbie dumb question - do chickens molt their first year? Ours are only 30 odd weeks old
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    Feeding your chickens apples

    see I find this funny - cos we have an apple tree and we tried giving them to our chooks and they just turned up their noses. Same with cabbage, spinach, silver beet strawberries and pumpkin!! fussy little buggers they are!
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    ooh the wait is killing me! Caggie, our Speckled Sussex finally started laying at nearly 30 weeks old and she has been a regular ever since. However my 30PLUS week old Blue Weyandotte is holding out. The way her comb etc is so red you would think she was laying them all day long (and no...
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