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    A Soupbean Inside a Yolk!

    What is lash material?
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    A Soupbean Inside a Yolk!

    It truly was a bean. I grew them last year. It was identical to what I grew.
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    A Soupbean Inside a Yolk!

    But it did. It was a Rojo Domingo soup bean. Clearly a bean.
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    A Soupbean Inside a Yolk!

    It was a Rojo Domingo soup bean. I know because I grew them last summer. No way it was anything else. The girls were helping me clean up the garden. I guess they found a random lignified bean on the ground
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    A Soupbean Inside a Yolk!

    When peeling and slicing a hard boiled egg, I found a soup bean inside the yolk! One of my hens must have found a rogue bean under the bean trellis. Clearly, it was indigestible as it was intact...but why was it in the yolk and not in the poop? Never saw such a thing in my life!
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    Brood X Cicadas

    Is anyone saving the million plus per acre cicada explosion for their girls? Can you freeze this protein source as they emerge for mid-winter chicken snacks? OR do you freeze to kill, then dry?
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    One dead chicken; rest stop laying, why?

    Help! One of my girls was attacked and killed by a fox a month ago. She was not the alpha hen, but the rest of the grande dames seem to be in mourning. This all happened just as I integrated three new girls into the bunch. No one has laid an egg since the fox attack. Is this grief? Is this...
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    My Pullet Laid an Egg at 9 Weeks, Why?

    One of my new chickens (hatched in April) just laid an egg. It is very small (1/4 the size of a normal egg). At first, I thought it was a bird's egg (fallen from a nest)...but it is far too big for that. And yet, my chickens are too young to start laying. I am integrating the new girls with my...
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    Ended Official BYC Mini-contest - Post your funniest chicken pic and win!

    Wherever we wonder, wherever we roam, we couldn't be fonder of our big home...
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    Ended Official BYC-Mini Contest - Post a pic of your chickens with your other

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    Assume the Position!

    Thank you for sharing. I'm so sorry about your hen. I will be very careful.
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    Assume the Position!

    My chickens are really big and fat. Even my Rhode Island Reds are heftier than those I see in pictures. Will they get to a size that a hawk will avoid? (I have two Chinese geese that the hawks don't bother at all.) For the most part, the chickens move from scrub to tree and are rarely...
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    Assume the Position!

    Ok! Thanks! (Love your tagline! I spoil my girls too!)
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    Assume the Position!

    Hmmm. Am I a rooster to them, then? I'm definitely the boss (and there is no Y chromosome among them). Have I assumed the rooster role midst the flock of females?
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    Assume the Position!

    Hmmm. Makes sense. I have slowed my feet when walking around the flock and see less "freeze-frame" action. And yet, when they are separated from the rest, they do assume the position and wait, as if expecting me to "swoop" (which I do when I pick them up) to find the others. Do they stick...
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