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Advice on restoring flock
We must have done something right! First day out in the big wide world (under close supervision!!)- JoeO
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Advice on restoring flock
And thirteen - with another one possible…- JoeO
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Advice on restoring flock
Well, we opted for the “stick ‘em in the incubator and don’t interfere” approach. Four hatched overnight - several more pipping. Champagne on ice…- JoeO
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Advice on restoring flock
OK - this is a rather surprising issue, since we've had hens now for nearly ten years, but here goes. First the bad news. Locked the coop Wednesday night. Opened it on Thursday morning to find every single bird dead - a mink somehow got in. Two roosters, fourteen hens wiped out in a single...- JoeO
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- hatching and raising chicks new flock security
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Ended 2024 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!
Looks like he’s a bit of a character!- JoeO
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- Forum: Official BYC Contests, Etc.
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Ended 2024 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!
And how could I forget the glorious, much-missed Bella?- JoeO
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Ended 2024 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!
And Big Brother "I'm ready for my close-up!" Bran:- JoeO
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Ended 2024 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!
Simone showing off her Cruella deVil coiffure- JoeO
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Ended 2024 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!
A serendipitous quirk of natural lighting lent this shot of Penny and her family a softened, almost "oil on canvas" quality. (Note that none of the chicks are silkies; Penny had a habit of "acquiring" eggs laid by our other hens!)- JoeO
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- Forum: Official BYC Contests, Etc.
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Ended Poultry Shaming Contest!
Bibi's a wonderful mother - most of the time… (No chicks were harmed in the making of this entry!)- JoeO
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- Forum: Official BYC Contests, Etc.
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Ended Official BYC Caption Contest 12-03-21 Pic by chicken1234
Now I know I came out here for something…- JoeO
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- Forum: Caption Contests
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help me find chickens in literature please
This is definitely chicken related:- JoeO
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- Forum: Random Ramblings
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help me find chickens in literature please
Meant to say, the tune quoted is best known on this side of the pond as The Campbells Are Coming, an C18 anti-Jacobite song. Which of course has nothing to do with chickens. Unless, I suppose, one mentally inserts the words "cream of"…- JoeO
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- Forum: Random Ramblings