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    FREE CHICKS in SE Michigan. A teacher I work with has eggs hatching this week: one dozen each of Leghorns, Isa Browns, and Araucana (easter eggers) that she needs to find homes for. Please email me [email protected] The school is in Detroit, but I live in Oakland county and can meet...
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    A teacher I work with has eggs hatching this week and homes are needed for the chicks. There are twelve eggs each of Leghorns, Isa Browns, and Araucanas (probably easter eggers, can't guarantee pure). My school is in Detroit but I live in Oakland County and can meet someone if not too far...
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    Chick with a twisted beak

    My hen's crossbeak is pretty extreme, a little more crossed than that picture. I've had to trim excess growth from her beak once in a while. Just use pet toenail clippers.
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    Chick with a twisted beak

    I have a crossbeaked easter egger hen. "Sandy" is four years old now and still perky. Both feeders and waterers have deep troughs that allow her to scoop up her food. You can also try making her some gruel - cooked oatmeal, cottage cheese, maybe some carrots or spinach, plus milk or water...
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    Chicken stock?! Never heard of it. Details, please. I'm in the same boat about the "crowing hens". I'm advising my coworker to order eggs that are from an egg-laying breed.
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    Hello all! I'm in Waterford, which is in SE Mich. I have seven hens and have another nine on order from Meyer Hatchery. My yard is completely snow covered still and my poor girls haven't been out of their pen in so long. I am a Detroit teacher and another teacher at my school wants to hatch...
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    Anyone else have whiny Welsummers?

    My Welsummer is two and a half years old and a hatchery bird. She is the bossiest one in the flock and pretty independent - doesn't mind foraging away from the rest. She scolds and nags, but is fairly friendly. She is also the only one who laid throughout last winter.
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    chicken with torn nail, hanging by thread and bleeding, what to do

    I've twice had hens lose part of a nail. Each time I found blood drops on perches, nests, and the floor. I had to closely inspect each hen to figure out what had happened - none of them were acting strangely or limping. Only way I figured out what had happened was by checking feet and finding...
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    cross beak- PICS PLEASE HELP!

    I am glad you are giving the chick a chance. I also have an EE hen with a severely crossed beak. Sandy is a tenacious survivor, over a year old now, and even lays a small egg once in a while. Every morning I am in the habit of taking the previous day's leftovers out to the hens and I always...
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    What is the most quiet chicken?

    I have a Welsummer hen who is very quiet, and my two BOs are fairly quiet as well. So is my silver laced Wyandotte, but she is the low hen on the pecking order. I have two EEs, one is pretty loud and a busybody, the other rarely speaks, but then she has a fairly severely twisted beak. The...
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    Using a suet feeder for greens. PIX

    I use one just like it. I put greens or bread rolls, etc, in it and hang it from one of the perches. It has a hinged top with a chain for hanging. It helps keep whatever is inside from getting dirty from the litter on the floor of the coop, plus it helps alleviate boredom. The chickens can...
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    Treats for chickens

    I've not heard anything about not feeding chickens dry bread; mine certainly get a lot of it! I look for discounted day-old rolls at the supermarket and put two at a time in suet feeder cage. The chickens peck away at it, the rolls stay clean and dry, and it helps to alleviate boredom in hens...
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    Check out this egg!

    Awesome egg, awesome hen! I have an EE that lays the biggest eggs in the flock - sometimes they don't fit well into an egg carton because they're so wide. Yet my EE is smaller than by two BO hens, whose eggs are smaller. I wonder if hens feel egg envy?
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