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    I come here because no one else gets it!

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    I come here because no one else gets it!

    This is Red with his girls
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    I come here because no one else gets it!

    Hello, I had an excellent Rooster, Big Red. He was gentle to a degree, unless you interfered with his job. He loved special rides occasionally in your arms and grubs he would find in my pocket. He took his job serious and had 12 beautiful hens to watch as they free ranged. He was big and solid...
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    Topic of the Week - When eggs go wrong

    How odd I have 24 also and i have never gotten a soft shelled or cracked or anything you mentioned. I get about 20-24 eggs a day. Twice i got a very golf ball size egg teeny little ones. Ive heard of soft shelled but never daily. I do add oyster shell to feed daily.
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    Disappeared without a trace

    I have lost my hens on 3 occasions ( a hen just vanished). One time she had jumped inside the feed barrel in a nearly empty feed bag and was nibbling grain when i set the lid back on. She popped out when i went to feed that evening. Two, I left a ladder against the wall and she managed to get...
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    Hello from Wisconsin

    🙋‍♀️ I have 9 buff orph’s and 9 Rhode island reds my 2 boys are buff orphs. They have a large free range area and boys are good caretakers.
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    Swollen vent confusion

    Good morning I took your advice both of you. She was standing nicely and eating and energetic this morning in her box in my bathroom so I took her out and let her rejoin her flock And watched. She was busy wanted to eat drink water looked fine and then she ran immediately for her nesting box she...
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    Swollen vent confusion

    Oh yes Vasoline, I will try in morning then and watch. Thank you for your time! KC
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    Swollen vent confusion

    It’s swollen somewhat not major just too swollen and she squeezes it like contractions continuously. The damp looking feathers are from gasoline and her fanny is clean no dripping poops. She doesn’t sit tail pushed down or tail up. She stands normally and was standing and eating when i went in...
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    Hello from Wisconsin

    Nice to meet everyone, I have a sweet flock of 18 hens and two very good boys.
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    Swollen vent confusion

    Good evening. I have a Rhode Island Red hen that is a new layer as of Aug end Sept beginning. Yesterday all was fine and I noticed her late to her nest and took note. I checked back an hour later she was still there. I set her on the ground. There were 4 eggs under her and one was quite warm...
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