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    strange egg -- photo attached

    Ditto the previous reply. I have a welsummer that laid several of these in her first year, including an egg with a shell inside one without a shell. That was freaky. She's fine now, and a regular layer with no problems. Here's that egg, compared with a regular egg from one of my other hens. Best...
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    The RE-Build of Les Farms

    Your barn burning down is just about the saddest thing I can imagine. I lost a chicken last year and it was devastating. One chicken. I feel your pain. I hope that sharing your story has helped alleviate the pain somewhat. It is fantastic that you have insurance money and can plan the rebuilding...
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    Chicks sharing deep bedding coop

    We got fertile eggs for our broody hen and in a couple of days should have chicks. We are going to trust that her excellent mothering will continue through the hatch. My question is how to handle things after that. Our four girls are in a large aviary type coop with lots of free ranging. I...
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    Official definition of "chicken math"

    How many chickens do I have? A crapload. <*waffling hand*> I'm still laughing over this.
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    HELP FOR THE NEWBIES

    Welcome, from one Aussie lady to another (I am from Mackay, with plennnnnty of sugar cane in my back ground). I live in Seattle now, so conditions are very different here, but I'm a newbie too (just got chicks in August). Just last week we started to get our first eggs. Not sure about the paper...
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    What do you do with you extra roosters? (POLL)

    We got our first chickens this summer, a straight run of 8. Turned out 50/50, so we ended up with four roos to deal with. Here in the city (Seattle), we can't have roos, but we were really attached to them. One went to a breeder quite young to improve her blood-line (!), two went to a rooster...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Our Wheaten Marans, Nuggles, laid her first egg today. We thought she'd gotten out of the yard because I couldn't find her anywhere, and went in to get my son to help find her. He heard her under our back stairs, where she was setting on a little nest she'd made, utterly safe and dry out of the...
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    Nuggle's first egg.

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    Rooster very sick, close to dying

    That's a sad way to end the holiday. I'm sorry he is so sick, but it sounds lucky that your other birds didn't get it. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow Take care.
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    Merry Christmas!!!!!!

    Still Christmas here! Merry Christmas everybody. Happy holidays if you celebrate something else!
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    A few meaties for small backyard?

    I've thought of doing this as well. We have four hens for eggs and are allowed eight chickens all together. As someone else said, since they'd be indoors for the first few weeks, we could start a batch inside, move them out a month later, and get four more chicks then, a month later process the...
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    nest box training

    I've read that keeping them locked in the space (coop or what have you) where the nesting box is, until after they lay each day, helps. Give them no alternative but to lay there? Beautiful girls, BTW. One of them looks just like one of mine.
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    Holy egg! (pic)

    OMG those are some huge assed eggs. I don't normally talk this way, but those are just ... some huge eggs!!
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