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    Easter Egger club!

    We have EE's and a couple of other various breeds but the EE's are our favorite we lost a couple this winter, 1 to an OWL and another to I think just old age. Our eggs have been average size but just recently we had an egg that was just over 3.5 oz I have not cracked it open yet, I'm guessing at...
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    Ended Your Chicken Pictures Needed For The BYC 2013 Calendar

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    Mites... In need of some help, please!

    We have been using DE FOOD GRADE for a couple of years and have been successful. Make sure you use Food Grade!
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    How many chickens per square foot
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    Golden Laced Cochin Chicks

    hope to pictures soon, we have a Golden Laced Cochin and she is the friendliest of all of our crew. She will untie your shoes if you are not paying attentin to her and jump up on your lap. You will have sooo much fun with your new babies.
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    Northerners - insulating coops?

    We live in Eastern Washington and we have some pretty cold night so we insulated our coop with R-11 and covered with plywood. The coop is an old 1910's chicken house and the siding was not air tight. We also covered up a couple of the windows that are by the roost with plastic to help decrease...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    We had what looks like the biggest egg ever from an EE 2.9oz, 3in. long, 5-3/4 in. round
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    Cochins/winter laying

    Our cochin also stopped laying a couple of weeks ago. I don't think she is molting either she acts normal in every other way.
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    show off your cochins

    This is Belle our GL Cochin Bantam, she is the friendliest chicken. She however will demand attention like jumping on your back while you bend over and unties shoes she loves to be the favorite chicken.
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    First egg song yesterday...today nothing?

    Our EE's did the same thing, some sing before and some after or if they just want us to bring them a treat. A few of them sang the egg song a couple days before laying.
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    skirting the hardware cloth

    Our hardward cloth is outward about 12 inches and down about 3 inches, so far it has worked good. One of our dogs has tried to dig but stopped as soon as she hit the wire. We also have pavers around the gate to hopefully prevent any unwanted vistors from digging under the gate.
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    A Late Intro from Oregon's Willamette Valley

    Welcome- from Eastern Washington. Congratulations on the new grandbaby and the baby chicks coming. We are fairly new to chickens ourselves and have found this forum much better then the book we bought. Nothing like real experience and helpful members.
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    New here from WA state

    Welcome- from Eastern Washington (Northwest of Spokane). We also are fairly new to chickens and find lots of great ideas and advice all around the forum.
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