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    crowing

    I highly recommend Julia Child's Coq au vin recipe. It is really good, especially if you take the time to let the chicken marinate overnight. :)
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    19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

    Quote: She may be eating the eggs, but usually (especially with young chickens) if they're eating eggs it shows that they're lacking something else in their diet. Maybe if you start putting oyster shell or (baked to dry it and broken up) crumbled eggshells in the feed, she'll stop eating...
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    crowing

    :( our sicilian buttercup cockeral started at 7 weeks. :( Will you keep him, give him away, or eat him?
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    Greetings from So. California

    Thanks everyone! I'm enjoying reading BYC, I have to fight not to reply to EVERYTHING i read, lol. SofieL- I'm in Santa Barbara... I've been noticing more chicken sounds in my neighborhood lately, so I think a lot of people are getting into chickens here lately, not just me. :) As of that...
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    Watermelon :-) What treats do your chickens love?

    Ours go nuts for melon, but they also adore elderberries, and loquats. :) We also had leftover mealworms at some point, and nightcrawlers from a fishing trip, and they went crazy for them. :) I've never seen chickens as excited as when I tossed some maggots in for them that had unfortunately...
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    Greetings from So. California

    Hi everyone! I occasionally read the forums and would read specific posts whenever I got BYC in my google search results, but have only now gotten around to actually joining the site. I talk about my chickens all the time, so I figured I may as well talk to you all about them, since you're...
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