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    What time are hawks active?

    Five of the chicks we had this summer were taken by magpies and other birds of prey of the same size. I was to give up on free-ranging but when I saw how glad my chickens were when they're out so I let them...up to the point when I we had two hawk attacks this last week. Luckily, we were in good...
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    Greetings from new member from Norway

    UPDATE on my hatch. Good news and bad news. I have one little chick I named Mozart (been listening to violin concerto n. 3 during the wait). And the other two failed to pip internally and just gave up, I think...The yolk sac has not been fully absorbed in these two. Here are the pictures...
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    Greetings from new member from Norway

    Hi ChicKat, thank you for the tip and I sure will have lots of fun with my chicken adventure---greetings to you and your lovely dog from us with Ola our basset hound---arrrrooooooooohhh!!! (I hope someday I'l be able to post a goofy picture of our dog with the chickens.
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    Greetings from new member from Norway

    Hello everyone, thanks again for the lovely replies...UPDATE on my current hatch which is on the 23rd (accompanied by flu and migraine headaches)...Well, I finally saw a crack today just a couple of hours ago from this writing My nerves had been cracked long time ago, but I feel happy to see...
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    Greetings from new member from Norway

    Thank you for the replies. I am so happy to tell you folks that we have two little chicks named Sissy and Bobo hatched 2nd February. I don't know Sissy's breed but Bobo is an araucana (from a blue egg) This is Sissy who took more than 30 hours from pip to hatch! The info on assisting I...
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    Greetings from new member from Norway

    We are the Bang family and we have just started raising chickens. We bought our three pullets/hens and a young cockerel just this week. We've had ten eggs so far and besides that, I have started having an interest in incubating. So I made my own styrofoam box incubator. The first batch of 12 did...
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