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    Intermittent Broody Behavior?

    It might just be egg laying routine and I'm seeing another take the first one's place later on in the afternoon. I do have a dozen of their eggs in the incubator right now, since I noticed they weren't on them at night I haven't tried to let them hatch.
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    Intermittent Broody Behavior?

    The Run is very spacious, I have 9 chickens total and 2 seperate coops. Both have 4 nesting boxes each and between the two of them they have more than enough room. I made sure the setup was both in a shade and in the path of airflow.
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    Intermittent Broody Behavior?

    It's been about 3/4th of a year since I started keeping chickens. One thing that always boggled me is that they never want to sleep in their coops. I had to place a bench in their run because they were all climbing on top of one another to sleep on the gravity feeder than to go in the coop to...
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    Shipped eggs super dissapointed!!

    My first mistake starting out was trying to buy hatching eggs online. First batch were cream legbars from McMurray. Spending nearly a month monitoring the incubator just to have 1 successful hatch was a hit to my modivation. As others said, there are so many factors that could result in a low...
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    Texas

    In the 20s here. All this time and they still refuse to use the coops other than to lay their eggs in. The only exception is the silkie my brother gave me for my birthday, it slept comfortably inside. They're all doing fine despite it being cold and wet out there.
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    Rooster Purring?

    Nope, none of them ever used it, every hen uses the coops. I had that in there just in case the cream legbar tried laying them on the ground (she never did) so I just took it out.
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    Rooster Purring?

    My Easter Egger Rooster for some reason likes to go inside a small igloo nesting box and make a purring like sound. The Naked Neck Rooster just looks at him like he's crazy. lol
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    First Time Layers Doing Great!

    My Naked Necks are finally starting to lay their first eggs. They are a bit small but otherwise perfect shape and thickness. I feed them that scratch & Moore and it seems to do the job just right. I do have a cream legbar who is around a month older but I've yet to see any eggs that would...
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    My EE Roo is matured.

    He turned out to be a handsome boy. I can't wait to see the offspring with the white naked necks.
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    Texas

    I'm from Onalaska, on Lake Livingston. Great area to keep chickens and I love the feed store over in Coldsprings, that Scratch N' More is the same price as the cheapest feed at Tractor Supply but much much better.
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    Hello from East Tx

    Hello! I'm also from East Texas and am brand new to the chicken keeping! I just culled my extra roosters day before as they were about to reach maturity so I'm now down to 6 Naked Neck Hens, 1 Cream Legbar Hen 1 Easter Egger Rooster and 1 Naked Neck Rooster. The learning curve isn't as bad as...
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    First Time Rooster Culling and Cleaning.

    I seen those drum machine pluckers go for hundreds of dollars and it makes no sense even if processing on a large scale because of how fast the drill bit was. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNGM2L26 This is what I used. 60 bucks, so much cheaper and gets the job done.
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    First Time Rooster Culling and Cleaning.

    Skinning is easy but the skin is the tastiest part of the chicken! I really didn't smell anything too bad, the hot water doesn't smell as bad as the coop, and I do it outside so you don't smell it anyway unless you get your face in it. lol Once you do it for the first time you will wonder what...
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    New Box Turtle!

    I found this guy by my fence while I was walking my new robot lawnmower. He came up to me and was very friendly, which makes me think he once belonged to someone. I live by the woods but there is enough development here that I worry that it will fall prey to either stray cats or dogs or get...
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    First Time Rooster Culling and Cleaning.

    As my Naked Necks reach maturity I knew the time would come to where I had to start culling the extra roosters. At first I thought I had 5 (4 NN + 1 EE) roosters, turned out I had 8. Eight out of 15 Chickens were roosters. I planned on keeping the EE and the naked neck rooster that likes me the...
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