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    Weekly Growth Progress of My Chickens

    Been a lonnng time since I've posted. Here are my girls now. I'm actually down from 8 to four. Last year we lost our Silver Laced Wyandotte Lacey. I had gone to shut them in for the night and get eggs when I found her dead, lying on her back in the coop under the roost. I don't know what...
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    Cuckoo Marans chick sexing?

    AKfishchic that's a girl for sure, a real cutie too Teya, hard to say at that age. I'd give it a couple weeks.
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    Cuckoo Marans chick sexing?

    Looks like a roo to me
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    Cuckoo Marans chick sexing?

    The one feathering faster is probably just a little older than the other I'd venture to guess.
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    Cuckoo Marans chick sexing?

    Haven't been here in ages, whoa. Kenna turned out to be one rockin' hen :) Super chill and friendly and a good egg layer, albeit occasionally broody. We actually just downsized yesterday from 7 to 4 hens since we aren't eating eggs really and we want to save money on how much food we're buying...
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    Is feather picking actually curable?

    Alice(Ancona) is still picking the Wyandotte's feathers. The apron I have on Ruby (GLW) has stayed on well enough to where he back pattern feathers are growing back nicely, but sometimes the back of the apron curls up and exposes her tail base, which is being plucked, along with her tail...
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    Weekly Growth Progress of My Chickens

    I ate Alice's egg today =P It was reaallllly good and looks great for her first one Three 9 week olds =) Anna All of them eating cabbage Alice babies
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    Pinless peepers on all or just the offending pullet?

    I could have done it wrong, it is a possibility I didn't get them directly in/far enough back in her nostrils. We bought a cabbage for them and hung it up and they seem to be having a lot of fun with it, and Lacey's saddle is now the proper tightness so it won't fall off and won't be...
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    Pinless peepers on all or just the offending pullet?

    That's a good idea--- I could try that. I do have a flock block/cake for them, but I'm sort of waiting to give it to them so I don't go through all their treats too fast.
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    Pinless peepers on all or just the offending pullet?

    Here are some pics I took 5 days ago of their backs so you guys can see if feather plucking is what it is (there are only 2 birds featured in these, the GLW and the SLW)
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    Pinless peepers on all or just the offending pullet?

    Since I live in WA state, the weather goes from 75-80*f and sunny one day to 65 and rainy the next =P Not quite hot enough for them to get agitated, but fruit and mint ice cubes are a great idea. I want to get a kiddy-pool for them to stand in when it starts to get really got. They might have...
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    Pinless peepers on all or just the offending pullet?

    I think they may have been a bit cramped while I had a temporary pen in their run(which is 72sqft, so might be a bit small for 8 birds if just using the 10sqft per bird in the run) and that pen took up a lot of space, but it's gone now that the babies are in the run with them, and I've just...
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    Pinless peepers on all or just the offending pullet?

    Or maybe I just won't use them, it looks like some people have pretty negative experiences with them... *sigh* I just don't want my wyandottes to be picked on anymore and I don't think that they should wear the aprons all the time, right?
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    Pinless peepers on all or just the offending pullet?

    I got pinless peepers to put on our Ancona Alice who has been plucking my wyandotte's backs, so I put a pair on her and after putting her back in the run, she was instantly swarmed and Ruby(one of the wyandottes who has been plucked the worst) ripped them out of her nose. Should I try putting...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    My Ancona Alice just laid for the first time at 19 weeks old exactly =D She's the first of my 8 pullets to lay an egg!(3 of the 8 are only nine weeks old, but the other 5 are 19 weeks) Egg: Alice:
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