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    Soft shelled egg

    Our approximately 16 month old Ameraucana, Maple, has laid 3 soft shelled eggs out of 140, her first laying year. 2 in the last week, mid September, starting a molt? I feed Bar Ale layer pellets with oyster shell. Snacks are meal worms a.m., corn mid a.m., greens at 2 p.m. (Cabbage, lettuce...
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    Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

    Hi there, fun post, my baby, who adopted me, just layed her first, blue egg. I'm thinking, she needs a frtiend. How about a couple of doves? Her housing precludes another chicken, I fear competiveness.
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    By the by, seller told buyer. Ameraucanas...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Dear ones, l have a girl, she has a fluffy black beard, cheeks and a black tail, with black and copper mid body feathers. I figured EE, but she just started, at year 1, this spring, to produce light teal blue eggs. The sweetheart. Can EE's give blue eggs, if there is an Ameracuana in the wood...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    3/15/2017 Maple laid her first egg! My heart goes twang... And her 2nd egg on the 17th, St. Paddy's day, bless her heart. They're blue! So definately some Ameraucana in there. So excited. I was cleaning up after her and she leaned against me, and took the mating position. I gave her lots of...
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    Give Thoughts of Kindness

    Dear one, I love my "pets," as family, because, well, they are. I get it, you get it, and all good "pet," owners get it. Love is love... Dear one keep on...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    Her six to seven am treat is warm oatmeal and corn, hot day afternoon treat is, cold melon, corn, berry or veg. We're talking a tablespoon... To an eighth to a quarter of a cup of bar ale. I'm gettin' way "too precious" here. I'm a pretty good cook, and I don't like recipes that are, "too...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    Oh, and by the way, no sign of an egg. I, of course, assume, she's unhappy. Too many changes. I hope the new open cage helps. Geez, I'm stressed, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    OK, we're building a "cage aroung a cage," and it is slow. Hope to have it before first rain. She's hanging in, but I fear bordem and feather plucking... As for bringing in a friend, this cage is WAY too small. Maybe with the over cage we are building. (Decided to customize, as the coop is on...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    Thank you, QM, Yes, just what I was thinking. Dog run panels, that we can frame a top for. As long as I can get inside, to lock up the coop at night, the run would not have to be 'coon proof.
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    So I can't stand the "cage/coop," and decide to give her a try at liberty. We let her out for her first day, after five days in the coop, on Thursday. ;). She went outside, chased bugs, chased butterflies, had a ball with our cat. Evening, she looked at the coop, landed on it, made all signs...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    She's going to roost at about 3 p.m. (Which is early, it's not dark yet until 7ish.). Could she be broody? Can she come out to play now, its been 7 nights since she has voluntarily gone into the roost?
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    Dear one, thank you for the response. Maple is an only chicken, she came to us, check out earlier stuff. I'm worried to bring in another, as the coop is so little. Also, she split from her original crew... Main concern is letting her out of the small coop, during the day. Will she have homed...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    Will it really take weeks? She' been in the coop 8 days, the last four she has gone into the coop voluntarily. I heard an owl last night and we definately don't want her to revert to the tree. But it's a little coop, she misses chasing around with our cat, during the day...
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    It's serendipity, we've been adopted for the 2nd time...

    Maple has voluntarily gone to sleep in the roost of her coop for three nights. (I put her in on Tuesday and Wednesday, this is Monday September 19th.). We have a very small coop and run, prefab by Trixie products. She's been in the cage for 7 days. How long before she can come out to play...
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