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    My girls are slackers!

    Thanks all. Yes, sometimes a little wine with that whine helps! Aart--have already done the butt check, and I definitely know who is and who is NOT laying! Francis shows all the signs that she should be laying but she's holding out. Good thing she is my prettiest hen--I'm keeping her around as...
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    My girls are slackers!

    I've got 4 hens I raised from chicks, now all just over a year old. Two, my Welsummer, Olive, and my EE, Flossie, are laying 5-6 eggs each per week, but Mary, my Buff Orp, lays at most one egg per week, and Francis, my other EE has yet to lay a single egg. Mary at least will sit in the nest...
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    Name that baby chick!!

    I've Bertha, Mildred, Ethel, Gertrude and now Mary, Frances, Flossie, and Olive. We name our hens after the women elders of our family.
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    Fowl Play: A Cautionary Real Life Tale

    thank you all for your kind remarks. Some lessons are harder learned than others, but this one, Gertrude's legacy, will not be forgotten. Wishing you all happy hens!
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    Fowl Play: A Cautionary Real Life Tale

    Once upon a time there was a cheery backyard coop housing 3 happy hens, Bertha, Mildred, and Gertrude. Bertha, a Red Star, was head hen, and a fair and kindly head hen she was. Mildred, an Australope, was feisty and loud, but knew her place. Gertrude, an Easter Egger, was meek and mild, sweetly...
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    Ended Official BYC-Mini Contest - Post a pic of your chickens with your other

    Winnie and Bertha sizing each other up!
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    14 week red sex link

    so glad to see this thread tonight as I was thinking of coming here for advice on this very topic. My 15 week 5 day old Red Sex Link, Bertha has just in the last couple days become VERY friendly, runs to me whenever I come outside where free ranging in the back yard, and does the squat thing if...
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    Has anyone else had their chickens fail the nipple waterers?

    Thanks, ECS... I feel like maybe I'm the one who failed, not the chickens, by not removing all water sources but the nipple waterer from the get go... I think I will make a second nipple bucket for the yard and remove everything else and try again. I know my chickens aren't the sharpest tools...
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    Has anyone else had their chickens fail the nipple waterers?

    I have a small backyard flock of 4 pullets, aged 13 weeks. When chicks they drank from the 1 quart red/white plastic dish waterer, but about 3 weeks ago we hung a 4 nipple bucket waterer in their coop. I kept the dish waterer for a few days and actually (please don't laugh!) spent one on one...
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    What is my Mildred?

    thank you, All. I was thinking Australorp too, but just not sure how she found her way into the Black Star bin. the garden center took only pre-orders and only offered 4 types of chicks: Red Star, Black Star, Buff Orpingtons, and Easter Eggers.... Australorp wasn't offered at all, so the...
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    What is my Mildred?

    Her lets are grey-- especially compared to the easter eggers who have the greenish legs. Again, thank you for your thoughts!
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    What is my Mildred?

    I "thought" I had attached photos, but let me try again...
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    What is my Mildred?

    I ordered a Black Star (black sex link) and got her at age 2 days. She was black with some white on her chest and a slight bit of white on the wing area...smaller than the other black sex links in the bin but I chose her because she was so active. Now at 12 weeks she is totally black with...
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    Panting Chicken!!

    Hi MyChickalees, its been a few hours since you posted, is your chick doing better? How old is she and is she the same age as the others who were not having the panting issue? You mentioned she was panting yesterday, did it continue today? I am assuming there is shade available for your...
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    Brooder help

    When my 4 chicks got too big for the large rubbermaid tote we were able to get two larger totes that were being tossed at DH's work. He cut one end off of each then duct taped them together. We used bird netting over the top which we fastened with large binder clips purchased on sale from...
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