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    chicken run

    what is a good base to put down for the chicken run. I was thinking gravel or sand for them to run on. The grass just turns to dirt and then mud when it rains or snows. During the winter it will get down to -30degs and summer will get to 100 degs. Wyoming is generally a dry state but we do...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Wyandotte

    We started 2 years a go and had all kinds of chickens and then we decided on Wyandotte's. We have 4 different colors of Wyandotte's and this is one of or BLRW Hens. Miss Blue. Her mom looks just like her only larger. Miss Blue is 10 months old now.
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Wyandotte

    The first pic is at about 2 hrs old then the others are as I was able to get pics. They are one day old in the last pic. All are Wyandotte's and all are from a black laced red rooster. They hatched on Dec.27th 2018. I do have 4 splash hens and 2 blue laced reds in the pen with this one rooster...
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    Hatchery Catalogs?

    We use Ideal but we are in Texas and they are just outside Dallas.
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    What’s the best way to introduce new chickens to your flock?

    I do not know about Bantams I have Wyandottes and Barred Rocks. When my chicks are 4 months old out of the tractor pen and into the yard with the grown birds. The only thing I have to do for a couple of nights is catch the little ones and put them in the coup, but they just go thru the pecking...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Wyandotte

    We enjoy or Wyandotte's and we have Silver laced, Golden laced, and Blue laced Red Wyandotte's. We have Silver Laced and Black laced Red Roosters. We just hatched out a group and looks like we got a Golden Rooster. We are going to stay with just Silver, Golden and Blue laced red Wyandotte's. I...
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    Miss Blue

    Getting your first egg is great and then hatching out your first batch of eggs and getting the baby chicks is fun too. We hatched miss blue and several others and have had a blast with our birds.
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    Golden Laced Wyandottes

    I breed my golden laced hens to a black laced red Wyandotte roo and my golden hens have a darker richer lacing around the golden parts of their feathers. I want to see how it colors out when I breed these chicks back to my golden laced roo.
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    Miss Blue

    This is one of my Blue Laced Wyandotte hens. She is 6 months old and should start laying soon I hope.
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    I almost shot a possum

    I had a possum get my chickens one night, so I got a live animal trap, and I have caught 7 possums and 12 house cats. They all have a new area code. I would have shot the possums but my 454 casull pistol is a little loud for the neighbors. That possum will be back until you eliminate it, and...
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    Golden Girls

    These are pictures of my girls and a Columbian Roo that hid out with the girls and then he bread them to their surprise. These birds are about 6 months old or less. Their dad Roo is a black lacey red Wyandotte and the hen to these birds is either a splash or blue lacey red Wyandotte. Those are...
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    Curled up feet

    I have a 4 month old hen and her feet just curled up about 3 days ago. She is unable to stand. She was out side in the yard and we had all that rain. I have 48 more hens and being in the water did not bother them so can this be water related.
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    What's wrong with her eye?

    We had several birds get like a cold and we could hear them sound like coughing and their eyes swollen up and I though they would loose that eye so we took ours to the vet and he recognized it right off. He gave us TYLAN and use 1 gram per gallon of water. All my chickens cleared up in about 10...
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    Bad Egg

    I found a foul smell coming from my incubator so I found the source. A bad egg and I removed it before it could explode. The egg did leak fluid in my incubator so it was close to blowing. I removed it and cleaned the incubator with a good alcohol wipe down. Just wondering if my other eggs will...
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    Fence height

    My neighbors chickens fly over my 6' fence, and I just net them and trim there wings and toss them back over the fence. I try to keep my flock from visiting strange birds for their own health and welfare.
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