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    Just my luck!

    Well after finally getting rid of my mean and very loud rooster last month.. no use for him as none of my girls ever went broody. My buff has decided to sit on her eggs, anyone elses eggs and golf balls.. she is perched high on a wobbly stack of anything round she can find! I go take out the...
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    Do I need lights on yet???

    As this will be my first Winter in WA with chickens, and as we have had a few cloudy days..when do you Washington Chicken folk start with extra light. I would hate my girls who have just started to lay going into molt. Are any of you already supplying extra light??? Thanks
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    6 eggs today :)

    My girls started laying about a week and half ago.. 1 the first day and then two and so on...today we got 6 we have 12 so hoping for a few more as the weeks progress... so nice to go out open the box and find eggs!!!! well worth the wait.
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    Ottis has been sent to military school...

    Well our suprise rooster Ottis..was just toooo happy and loud for our nieghbors. We are allowed roosters here but there were many "comments" about just how vocal he had become. So after much consideration (well not too much after he did nothing to help his cause when he attacked my daughter) I...
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    Washingtonians

    Anyone looking for a RIR rooster... I had an oopps from the feed store this Spring..he is getting too loud for my neighbors. I think he is cool but I guess they don't.. LOL He is about 5 months old, very handsome and quite the ladies man...oh and did I mention.... LOUD!!! This guy needs a new...
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    Our Coop and Run .......

    Love it...love the photos of the houses too...reminds me of home..I miss the brick houses and bay windows ..
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    Finally !!!!!!!!

    Well after listening for egg songs...giving girls extra treats.... o.k .. o.k... resorting to threats LOL I got my first egg today. All was quiet, no screaching like my old girls used to do, a little girl just went in snuggled up next to two golf balls and laid the most perfect tiny little egg...
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    If my girls were hatched April 15 week, are they 18 wks or 16 wks????

    Mine were hatched a week before yours and we got our first egg today a very small egg but still an egg..hang in there..the eggs are on the way
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    quick!! how much to sell a hen for who is close to laying???

    atleast $20.00... each
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    I think my chicken has eloped. Update: Marriage is official!

    You watch...... in a few months she will head home with a bunch of chicks, a tattoo and a cigarette hanging from her beak..telling you he has left her and found a young chick to hang with with... but its ok because as soon as he starts crowing she will be off again....because..... its true...
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    My new coop/pen and hens

    very nice.. how old are the girls?
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    I think my chicken has eloped. Update: Marriage is official!

    I'm sorry to say Miss Daisy is a loose chicken..not even old enough to lay and already having "sleep overs" I say you send her away to "military chicken school" before she comes home with a brood of chicks... LOL
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    Egg song... NOT!!!!

    Thanks for the smiles.. hopefully soon the girls will be laying and I can hear my own egg song !......not from the chickens but from me as I dance across the yard like a raving lunatic hold the egg in the air LOL !!!
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    Is it okay to let chickens clean-up garden at end of season

    I always let mine..they love it and it helps with the garden for next year..saves work to LOL !!
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    Egg song... NOT!!!!

    Well last evening we were sitting in the lounge talking and I heard loud as can be "the egg song" I was so excited as I have been waiting to hear that wonderful song since we moved and had to leave my old chickens behind in Colorado. My new girls are about 17 / 18 weeks old so I rushed outside...
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