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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    My son picked up some eggs while I was gone and called me this morning saying he had one with three yolks! 10/13 not counting the two extra yolks.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    13 hens and 12 eggs today! A new record.
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    Chickens and Bread!

    There is nothing more my chickens like than eating bread. I usually give them a slice or two a day. The braver ones come and grab it from my hand, and the roadies have taken that even further by jumping up on my knees and shoulders. On this particular day, it was hot and I was sitting on the...
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    My automatic coop door

    So as much as I love going out each morning and evening to greet the girls, there were going to be times where it would not be possible. So I looked here at what others had done and then on you tube to come up with my own design. I was just going to buy a door but I liked the door I had already...
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    Double Yolk

    I am just not sure what one it is producing the doubles but it is consistent. We also just started laying about three weeks ago.
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    Double Yolk

    Gave away my first dozen eggs to my son yesterday and he sent me this picture this morning!
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    Double Yolk

    My 13 girls have just started laying in the last two weeks. In fact I don't think they are all laying yet. Anyway we have had two eggs laid of the same enlongated shape and both were double yolk. I am not sure which one is the one laying the double yolk. Pretty sure it's not the road island reds...
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    My Egg Apron!

    I saw a picture of a crocheted egg apron on Facebook and told my wife and sisters that one of them should make me one so I could better collect my chickens eggs! It just happened that my one sister had already bought some material that day to make me one as a joke gift. So here is the result of...
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    Second Hawk Attack in Two Weeks?

    Looks like a Goshawk or as I call them, Chicken Hawk!
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    Second Hawk Attack in Two Weeks?

    Just got back in after checking on my flock of "Ornithological Therapeutic Devices" and there is a large hole in the netting over my run. Looks like a raptor of some sort tried to get the chickens. All are safe and I have some cool looking feathers I cannot keep. I am not allowed to have...
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    Second Hawk Attack in Two Weeks?

    S, S, S! They make great fertilizer for the garden!
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    What breed are these?

    Nutmeg looks like an americana. Spelling not sure of though.
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