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    Your Top Five Favorite Breeds!

    Salmon Faverolle, Buff Orpington, Ameraucauna, Rhode Island Red, Blue Andulusian (just to name my top five, but I have so many other favorites as well!)
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    Review by '' on item 'Faverolles'

    My first roo and hen were Faverolles. My SF roo, Ralphie, died last spring, shortly after his mate, Pretty, did; but I have some his offspring that are a SF/Ameraucauna cross...wonderful birds. I also have a friend that gave me a pair of faverolle hens (one's a SF Ameraucauna cross to go with...
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    Murderous broodies???? Or is this normal?* Baby pics added

    Thanks for the condolensces. I too plan on not giving these two anymore eggs no matter how much they try to bogart them. Other than their behavior, they're really great layers.
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    Murderous broodies???? Or is this normal?* Baby pics added

    This is exactly what happened with my two Ameracauna hens that went brood and successfully hatched out two chicks. I ended up losing two chicks that had successfully hatched (besides the other two), and they went on to tear into a chick that was in the process of hatching (I tried to rescue it...
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    I think a yellowjacket sting killed my Rhode Island Hen

    Actually it was my chicken that died but that's okay. I know the wasps and hornets seem to be more aggresive and toxic this year. Just last week I got stung twice on the same finger and had some weird side effects (by the next morning the finger was three times the normal size) and I went in to...
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    I think a yellowjacket sting killed my Rhode Island Hen

    I got two new hens and finally put them into the henhouse with the others last night. This morning, when I let my hens out (I clipped flight feathers on the new birds this morning) my old Rhode Island Red hen was okay at first then went passive in their house (sitting on the perch quietly). When...
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    Ameracauna Flock of 7 Black Hens, 2 Blue hens, 1 Black Roo

    I'm in Spokane but need only half that many birds....would you be willing to split the flock at all?
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