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    Kalmbach Henhouse Reserve?

    It's still in the 70s and 80s here. It's been minimally cooler, but barely autumnal.
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    Kalmbach Henhouse Reserve?

    Hi all- My local feed store stopped carrying the feed I'd been feeding my girls (the Du-Mor 16% crumbles) and I bought some local-ish mill's pellets. The woman at the feed store said their chickens love it. My four laying girls almost immediately stopped laying. I went from 3-4 eggs per day...
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    Elphie laid her first egg(s)!

    Update: since I wrote this, Glinda (also suspected to be an SGE) and Nessa (almost certainly a Sapphire Olive Egger) have begun laying. They tend to lay at the same ish time in the same box, but I think their egg colors are reversed (not sure, but I think). The eggs I think are Glinda’s are...
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    Elphie laid her first egg(s)!

    Shirley is adorable! Thanks for sharing! It seems like a long time ago that mine were that little, but it really was only a few months.
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    Elphie laid her first egg(s)!

    Yeah. I planned to leave it for them. I still need to get a designated holder for it, but I just put it in a dog dish for now. I have five who are yet to lay, and I thought she was a bit young yet, so I hadn’t bought anywhere to keep the oyster shell. I actually live across the street from a...
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    Elphie laid her first egg(s)!

    I gave her oyster shell last night. This egg was almost there shell-wise.
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    Elphie laid her first egg(s)!

    I’ve wondered about Elphie’s breed since I got her. She was a cute little chipmunk chick and I was told she was a Cream Legbar. It wasn’t long before it became apparent that she is not a Cream Legbar. But what is she? She came from a local feed store, which I believe bought from Hoover’s. For...
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    How can I determine the pecking order?

    I’m still a very new chicken tender and I’m curious about pecking order. I have two age groups; four birds who are 14-15 weeks and two who are around 10 weeks. I’m integrating them at the moment and it’s clear that the little ones are beneath the big ones in their eyes. Two of the bigger ones...
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    Coop functionally finished. Chickens moving in.

    I have six girls at the moment. Elphaba and Glinda are Starlight Green Eggers(I think) and are 15 weeks old Nessa is a Sapphire Olive Egger and is 14 weeks Bocky is a Black Australorp and is 14 weeks Cordelia is a Cream Legbar and is 10 weeks Ophelia is an Opal Legbar and is 10 weeks I’m in...
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    Same chicks, different day

    I promise I’m going to stop with this soon. However, someone mentioned something that sent me down a Google rabbit hole. These two are five weeks old now and were both bought from the same brooder at a local feed store. I think I deduced that they came from Hoovers. The feed store had been told...
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    Newbie wing question

    I was watching my five week olds outside playing and noticed something. Three of the four were holding their wings low, with the tips under their tails, kind of over their vent. The fourth had hers held with her wingtips above her tail. Is this significant? Pictures attached. The brown one is...
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    And now the other one.

    Her legs are absolutely pink. Thanks for the feedback. We’ll see who she turns into. I have a theory that she and her sister are both cinnamon queens? Who knows at this point?
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    And now the other one.

    Whoa! Yeah, the years fly by, don’t they? Thanks.
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    And now the other one.

    What a beauty! Do you happen to have pics of her as a chick? I don’t really care what breed mine is as long as she’s a pullet.
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    And now the other one.

    Oh. I guess I got it wrong then. Thanks.
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