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    Motion sensor light/alarm recommendations??

    Any updates?
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    Can a hard cooked egg show it's been fertilized?

    We are just not in a good time/place for this. We are overwhelmed trying to get our house built and can barely keep up with things, and we are badly managing our eggs. It's too hot here, and I have cracked eggs to plop out a developing embryo and I am not going to take the chance of accidentally...
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    Help - dung beetles?

    Love dung beetles. They are cleaner-uppers!
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    Can a hard cooked egg show it's been fertilized?

    thanks!
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    Are brood moms always protective against humans?

    We are new to breeding. We had a broody Australorp and let her raise some day old chicks last year. Then this year we had a couple roosters in with 20 hens, and 2 Australorps went broody and raised 3 batches of chicks. Each time, the moms seemed to teach the chicks that we are Big Bad...
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    Can a hard cooked egg show it's been fertilized?

    We just separated our roosters from our brood coop, and are done with chicks for this year (our first year of just letting our flock replenish itself... A little too successful!) We don't want to share fertile eggs (we have a separate production coop). So we will be eating the brood coop eggs...
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    Another homemade recipe attempt...

    Wow, thank you so much for this and the previous detailed analysis! I love finding someone who likes to nerd out on detail as much as I do, and in this case, especially someone who has some knowledge about chicken feed, since I am pretty much ignorant in this area. This is exactly the type of...
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    Another homemade recipe attempt...

    OK -- thanks for your messages!
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    Another homemade recipe attempt...

    Thanks for your reply! Is there a problem with the CaCO3? I thought I heard somewhere that those are two different types of calcium and act differently... We're still building our layer coop, so now we have our pullets and hens mixed together. I do have oyster shell out free choice and am...
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    Grandpa Feeders and Larger Flocks

    Can you share details on that wider feeder? We are also in the market for our 30 girls who waste a $lot of food...
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    Another homemade recipe attempt...

    I am gearing up to try homemade food. I am attempting to lower my costs. We use 200 lbs of feed per month, so I think I can buy ingredients in bulk. Here is my first attempt, below. I have been buying organic corn-free, soy-free whole grain food from Scratch & Peck. I have this spreadsheet...
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    Easter Eggs laying different colored eggs per week

    That makes sense, because brown eggs are white eggs with a coating on it. The thickness of the coating can change with nutrition and with time (darker when first laying or after a break in laying, lighter after regular laying)
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    Who should we breed our Buff Orpington roo to?

    Sweet pics! Yes, I love our EEs. We've had 9 so far, and they are all so different from each other, but every one is beautiful and they seem so cheeky, we just have a soft spot for them. We actually have 2 chicks that are the most similar and both mostly white with touches of grey, but one has...
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    Who should we breed our Buff Orpington roo to?

    Wow, that first link is a great thread! I went down a rabbit hole with that one! I'm surprised it didn't come up in my earlier searches. I had found the BO x BA thread before; looks like a really pretty mix and we really like both breeds, so that's why we had them high on our list. Thanks for...
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    Who should we breed our Buff Orpington roo to?

    Haha, good point! I mainly wanted to see if there were any interesting things that would happen re: genetics which I don't know much about with chickens. So it was a pretty open-ended question. But my ideal would be productive egg-laying dual-purpose birds with an interesting array of egg...
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