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    WTB MIXED dozen hatching eggs (no silkies, no banties) VA

    we are looking for a mixed dozen that can include some olive eggers, blue eggers, maybe a barnevelder, maybe a lavender, some large colorful chickens to enhance our current free range flock of 12 hens. we are located in VA [email protected] Thanks :O)
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    GOOD place to order hatching eggs

    thanks everyone! we are looking for a mixed dozen, no silkies or banties. I would like to have some olive eggers, blue eggers, a barnevelder, maybe a lavender, large colorful chickens. We live in VA and have a small (12) flock of hens that are free range. feel free to email me if you...
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    GOOD place to order hatching eggs

    I found posts with bad places but I did not see a list of good places. :O) thanks
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    1 chick w broody - ok to let nature do its thing?

    we do not have a rooster but had 2 hens get super broody so a friend gave us 3 fertilized eggs to see what happens. 1 egg hatched yesterday and our little black banty couldnt be happier. our hens have a nice sized coop but we leave them to free range. is this ok for the chick? should we...
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    egg bound with broken egg?

    I just checked on her again and she did lay a new egg. but I wonder if it is possible that she could have a broken egg still in her?
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    egg bound with broken egg?

    One of my hens that just started to lay (2 eggs so far) is acting egg bound this morning. sitting in nesting box, BOCKing really loud, waddling back and forth, squatting, etc. it also just snowed (again). I shoveled the chickens path, then she waddled down it and past me. I walked back up...
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    Do You Insulate?

    we built our tractor - which has 2 smallish wooden "house" units with roosting rails and nest boxes in them. We did not insulate. the boxes are both pretty draft free with wooden bottoms off the ground. one (wooden) house is covered in a sheet of rubber with house shingles on top of that...
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    scaly leg mites????

    cheers, thanks!
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    scaly leg mites????

    awesome! thanks for the link, that covered more than everything :O)
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    scaly leg mites????

    we have a variety of 11 hens in our yard that we got in October. this morning I noticed our black banty - who is much less social than the other chickens - was limping around and hiding in the back of the coop. She has been very reclusive lately but we attributed it to the weather and her...
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