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    Comment by 'johndjones' in item 'Marans'

    and the eggs aren't dark chocolate brown!!! Sure look like cuckoo marans but maybe I got ripped off.
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    Comment by 'johndjones' in item 'Marans'

    have wanted to get marans for several years, finally bought a dozen last fall. Ended up with 5 pullets and 1 rooster (gave the other roos away) now I'm giving the whole flock away!! Very inconsistent layers, broody but will not stay on the nest, very wild, one won't roost inside with the others...
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    Cuckoo marans

    If anyone in Northeast Mississippi is in need of a cuckoo maran roo, let me know. I have 4 extras that need a home.
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    Possums are Chicken Killers

    Something took one of my buffs a few weeks ago and badly wounded another couple of them. I thought it was probably a fox, because I know there is a den of them within a couple of miles of the house..or was a couple years ago, haven't seen them lately. I didn't think a possum would drag a...
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    Northeast Mississippi anyone?

    hi, did you ever find those red stars? There is hatchery down south of Hattiesburg...can't remember the name or the town!!! but they sell them...you can do a google for hatchery AND mississippi and it turns up. I haven't ordered from them but they are there. You have to call them. I live north...
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    Comment by 'johndjones' in item 'Orpington'

    Bought some 5 month old Buffs a couple of years ago...great layers but sure do get broody in the spring. Raised some chicks last year and they are excellent layers too. Early, early spring but so far they have not gone broody. The old rooster was a sweet heart too, never any attempts at spurring...
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    Building PVC "Egg Ports" for Access to Existing Coop Nestboxes

    In my life time, I have encountered too many snakes in hen nests to be sticking my hand through a hole like that!!!! I looks neat but I just could never use them...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    5/5 Buffs will be one year old the end of May
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    Northeast Mississippi anyone?

    Live in Baldwyn, just north of Tupelo, backyard flock of 5 buffs and 1 roo
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    5 hens, five eggs.
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    Hey, i gotta question...

    having the same problem..mine are all pullets so I think it might just be immaturity. The nests are only about a foot off the ground and they can see over into the nests. It's been raining here for days and the ground is muddy but that's where they lay, just here and there around the pen. I hate...
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    Can you make a hen go broody?

    I can say that cochins are probably the broodiest chickens I have ever had, although my orphingtons are running a close second. Seems like in the spring I always have one or two stuck in a cage somewhere away from the laying nest. Always takes them a few days but they will eventually break. My...
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    Crossing Breeds for Experimentation?

    call me a snob but I like to know what the chicks are gonna look like!!! But that said...the best laying chicken I ever had was a white leghorn polish cross...gertrude..looked kinda like a roadrunner and was wild as a buck, but I don't think she missed a day laying while I had her....2...
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    Best Natured Rooster?

    I agree with the other post..orphingtons are really gentle (I have two young roosters and they will eat out of my hand) and barred rocks (the most handsome of the two breeds) are pretty calm too...stay away from Rhode Islands or at least don't turn your back!!!!
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    Chicken Roosting Habit ** Updated PICS !!! ***

    I've been raising chickens on and off for most of my life but have never had birds that would not use a roost in the chicken house!!! The roost is made of poles inserted in the wire that surrounds the pen which is covered with a metal roof. The whole flock, 2 roosters and 5 hens...all young...
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