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    Introducing new chicks to year old chickens

    I am about to do this also for the second year. Last year, I had two batches of chicks about 8 weeks apart, so it wasn't like introducing full adults with babies, but we still had to go through the Intro process, as I raised them completely separately. I read some wonderful advice on this...
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    How are your DORKINGS laying?

    Yes, I felt lucky to find them. A local hatchery in TN had them. Mine are silver grey though.
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    How are your DORKINGS laying?

    I have a mixed flock of 13 including 3 dorking hens. They are apparently happy and healthy (and the Dorkings are my friendliest birds, so I love that). They hatched March 2011 and 2 of the 3 never really laid regularly. In October, they went through a light molt and it's been about a month...
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    Brahma Thread

    My Buff hen, Surya. Just hatchery stock, but we love her!
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    Something Eating/Stealing My Eggs?

    Are your leghorns going into molt? It's that time of year.
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    This thread has made me feel so much better about my shaggy molty birds. They look TERRIFIC compared to a lot of these poor girls!
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    Salmon Faverolle Roo - when will he look like a roo?

    Hi everyone- I hope I'm not making a fool of myself here. I have a fairly new flock (Spring 2011) and have 3 salmon faverolles among them. My little salmon hens (Muffy and Buffy) began laying recently- they are exactly 6 months old. I have always assumed the other is a Roo because he...
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    Are Dorking chicks less hardy than other chicks?

    I have 3 Dorkings out of a mixed flock of 15. They are my friendliest and most outgoing birds. I've not had any health issues with them at all (and I did lose 2 other young birds to a mystery illness which all the birds came down with, but 15 out of 17 recovered). I have faverolles too and...
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    Why is my 16 week old hen crowing? Or is SHE not a hen, lol?

    I have 2 batches of chicks. One is now 16 weeks old, and the younger is now 12 weeks. The younger batch contains 2 roos (out of 6 birds) and the olders are all hens (I hope!) - 9 of them. However, one or two of my older girls have begun to crow in the mornings. I had read someplace that...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    10 + hours, darn!
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I just found this thread. I am a totally casual backyard chicken-keeper, but I HAD to have some dorkings when I bought my day olds. I found some at a local hatchery and have 3 hens, who are about 14 weeks old now. Of my 15 chickens, I love their personalities the best. One in particular...
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    problems with harris farms waterer, anyone else?

    If it makes you feel any better, it got a lot of good reviews on the TSC website. I was thinking we might have gotten a bum one (?) So, just watch it. Yours may be fine.
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    problems with harris farms waterer, anyone else?

    This is the type of waterer I have, only I have the 3 1/2 gallon size. (The 1 gallon size is pictured below.) My problem is that it doesn't always drain into the drinking pan, even when the reservior is full or partially full. At first, I had it sitting on some blocks in the brooder and I...
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    Massively swollen breast-Emergency

    I wish I knew what to tell you. I have a 4 week old chick this Am whose breast was super swollen. I picked her up and the pressure of that pushed water out her beak and it smelled like strawberries! (They had strawberries for a treat the last 2 days). I gently squeezed as much of the water...
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    when can i let my 4 week old go in the coop with the others

    I was just reading about introducing littleuns to biguns and I found a post several years old. One person (I forgot who posted it - sorry) kept her little ones in a dig crate in the coop for several weeks. She's let them out together with her close supervision, and she'd gently discipline any...
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