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    Which Hen is Laying the Eggs?

    Pictures would be a hoot. My family (14, 16, and husband - all boys) call them "Scarlets" for the RIRs, "Diablos" for the BAs, and "Gingers" for the EE's. If a particular bird falls within that category, that is her name. So, if I sent them out to get pictures, we'd probably have 4 RIRs which...
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    Which Hen is Laying the Eggs?

    The eggs are all a varying shade of brown (or so I am told.) Which brings me to the "lawnchair" suggestion. I am the primary chicken keeper, and I am blind, so that's not going to work for me. And, I doubt very seriously that I could get my teen boys to "take up the watch" for me. Someone...
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    Which Hen is Laying the Eggs?

    We have 8 hens 4 RIRs, 2 Black Australorps, and 2 EEs - in a tractor with attached run. This is our first year with hens, so we got started late (we were told) trying the light thing to keep them laying through the winter. We didn't want to drag an electrical cord half way across the yard, so...
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    Looking for Chicken Print Lanyards or 5/8" Ribbon/Webbing

    I saw that one...it's definitely a possibility, though I'm concerned the guys won't wear it...maybe a little too femanine? The price is a little higher than I planned to pay, but not bad. Here's one that would be perfect, except that it's almost a full 1" wide...
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    Looking for Chicken Print Lanyards or 5/8" Ribbon/Webbing

    Lanyards are the "necklace" sort of things that go around your neck, and then a name badge is connected to the bottom of it (the kind of thing a coach would use to wear a whistle around their neck?)
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    Looking for Chicken Print Lanyards or 5/8" Ribbon/Webbing

    My husband is a photographer with IStockPhoto.com, and I am organizing a 3-day photoshoot for 25 professional photographers on a local CSA farm in the Snoqualmie Valley (Carnation, WA) August 13-15. The event is called "Chickenlypse" (long story, but all of these type events are called...
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    Reintroducing Bird Back to the Flock

    And, now...the rest of the story. So, Tuesday night, we put her back in the coop amongst the sleeping hens, and - other than rearranging a few bodies here and there to fit her into the sleeping pile - no one even noticed. We watched her Wednesday, and she seemed to function within the flock...
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    Reintroducing Bird Back to the Flock

    Well, I shampooed all the residue off her rear end to make sure she wasn't having issues there. Nothing there. She's moving around well, and making noises at me when I open the kennel door. I fed her yogurt with her food this morning and this afternoon, and she cleaned her bowl both times...
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    Reintroducing Bird Back to the Flock

    Yeah, I hear ya'. I'm wondering if she ate something she shouldn't have? We live on acreage, and most of the property runs to wild "whatever), but we have a kind-of-sort-of "lawn" in the front, and that's where the tractor is located. We did plant grass, but there's lots of weeds, etc...
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    Reintroducing Bird Back to the Flock

    This is our first flock (since January of this year.) We have 8 - 2 Black Australorps, 3 RI Reds, and 3 Easter Eggers - all hens, all the same age out of the same original breeder (9 months old). We run them in a tractor with attached run, and they are let out of the raised coop every morning...
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    Spraying Sevin on/in coop, run, and chickens

    Skipping the entire issue of what the problem might be, we dusted our flock with very little issue. We have 8 hens in a tractor with underneath and adjacently attached run space. We blocked the opening between the two runs and then caught the birds one at a time. Then, while I held them, my...
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    Washingtonians

    So, when I checked the "Unique Dog House" ad http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/for/1402246771.html it said "pending pick up 10/3." However, by late afternoon, the ad was still there. So, I shot her an email and said I was very interested if the present deal fell through, and I gave her my...
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    Washingtonians

    KMHunter writes: "How many are you getting?" Well, that depends on the coop we end up with, the number in the flock we buy, etc. The initial ad I answered (but have yet to receive a reply...probably not a good sign) had 3 hens - 2 RI Reds and 1 Araucana (per them, but haven't seen the bird...
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    Washingtonians

    Hey! I know Greg from PFC in Duvall! How cool is that! (Didn't expect to see his name here...will definitely check out the apples, to be sure!) Greetings to All...My name is Lisa, and I'm a newbie in the Snoqualmie Valley. I've been researching and researching, and we think we've decided on...
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    Western WA Newbie Just Joined the Flock

    Hello, My name is Lisa, and my family and I live on 10 acres in the Snoqualmie Valley in Western Washington State. I am just getting started on the research end of things and would appreciate being pointed in any useful direction. We would like to try keeping chickens strictly for egg laying...
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