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    The Stealth Rooster

    He was only days old on either the first of February or the first of March. Some roosters in his group matured and were breeding hens for some months now. At least early August or late July. This guy only started two, possibly three weeks ago. Hey guys, I am only reporting my observations...
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    The Stealth Rooster

    I don’t think that I claimed “it turned into” anything! I used the words that it first looked like a tailless rooster, (as a 3/4 grown bird). Then it started looking more like a rooster, demeanor and appearance. Now arrarently matured, it acts like a rooster, although it takes a lot of crap...
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    The Stealth Rooster

    I actually have a neighbor that claims he had a rooster a few years ago that laid an egg about once a week.
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    The Stealth Rooster

    Will see what I can do, but she/he/it looks like any black hen. Just has the tallest comb of any hen in the lot, other than the 3 leghorns. Certainly looked more like a tailess rooster a few months ago.
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    Trying to Foil a Red-Tailed Hawk

    Shoot, shovel and shut up!
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    rooster found killed. warning graphic pics. help?

    OK, that does it! I am buying all my chickens “assault riffles!”
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    The Stealth Rooster

    We bought chicks in two different TSC stores last spring, both “straight run” for some and pullets in other bunches. So, I was watching pretty closely when they started to mature, intending to “repurpose”, “fried chicken”, most of the roosters. As the ones I had picked out as roosters, and...
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    Egg boxes

    I have found that nests work best if sized for one hen. The problem is that we have different sized chickens, from various bandies to oversized giants. The ban ties tend to sneak in beside a larger bird and then just irritate her until she gives up and goes looking elsewhere. (There will be...
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    Egg boxes

    Oh, but some will! I have found that the home built, big square boxes tend to both encourage multiple hens at the same time or again, multiple roosting! That gets nasty quick! Found some “just the right size” wicker type baskets, but they lack covering. A board over the top would just...
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    7 dead in 1 night

    25 years of raising chickens, (out of 83), in two different high predator locations, and never seen a raccoon take only a head or multiple heads! But weasels, (or mink) certainly will! Matter of fact, we had a mink for a week or too this summer. Neighbor and I both. (Other predators will...
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    Blue eggs

    In 75 years of off and on chicken raising, I have never seen a truly speckled chicken egg, where the "so call speckles", would not wash off! They are truly a surface phenomena, and part of, or mixed with the water soluble natural coating of the egg shell. You break the egg and observe the...
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    Blue eggs

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    Blue eggs

    Sorry, but those specks DO WASH OFF! You just haven't managed to do so as yet! Whether they are excess pigment, dried blood or whatever, mixed with the natural coating, I don't know. But they WILL wash of with enough elbow grease!
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    Blue eggs

    Don’t be too sure there! I don’t know Isbars, but I will bet those “brown spots” will wash off! I too thought they were “part of the color”, but found out differently! A touch of Dove and a finger nail brush removes the speckles without altering the underlaying shell color. Such does take a...
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    Blue eggs

    Now, what I want to know is, is there any one getting truly speckled eggs? I had thought that I was getting one now and then, but finally realized that I was mistaken. Anybody?
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