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    North Carolina

    Well, I got a broody again :) She's sitting......and my Easter Eggers have started to lay! Happy Wednesday all!
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    First Egg Countdown

    I am NOT SURE if it's just one....really hoping it's two of them :) Thanks for noticing that too!!!
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    First Egg Countdown

    One of my Easter Eggers has started to lay! Here is a carton with two of the eggs
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    Buff Orpington x Barred Rock results (pics)

    So did the gold one turn out to be a pullet? My thoughts are that she is---they look like several of our BO/BR and BR/BO hatches. GL!!!
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    Got my Cornish Rock Chicks UPDATE

    Hey there---I just bought my first 14 Cornish X chicks from Tractor Supply in Albermarle, NC. I got them home and I am slightly concerned because they seem to have the sniffles.....It's the same place I bought my 20 Easter Eggers (labeled Ameracaunas, of course) whom I am in LOVE with!!! I am...
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    Babies on the way

    As of 10/26/12 seven hatched! Two pure buff orpingtons and the rest mixes BO's and barred rocks. They are adorable!!!
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    North Carolina

    My boyfriend and I grew up in Fayetteville and my BF's mother still lives there (my folks moved to Greenville, NC recently after over 30 years in Fayetteville). She sent us an article from the Fayetteville Observer from Easter time (Weekend Edition or the insert they put in regarding...
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    Babies on the way

    Hey! We are on day ten also as of 10/16/12. We have two broodies sitting on ten of them and after candiling tonite, looks like all is well! Good luck!
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    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    Thank you cheeka. I loved Nim Nim so much. Min Min, huh? That is so cute!
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    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    I lost my Barred Rock, Eagle Eye a few weeks ago to a hawk. Last week, I lost my best kitty friend, Nim Nim to a hawk. I am so sad about all this. First pic is my daughter with Nim Nim when she was a kitten, followed by a couple more of Nim Nim and then Eagle Eye the Barred Rock. R.I.P my...
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    19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

    They SHOULD be light brown, but I have some buffs who are laying pinkish eggs. The on in the picture, always lays a pink one.
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    19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

    Two days after losing our beloved Eagle Eye to a hawk, I came out to the coop and found this: She was sitting on one, also, so three eggs that day! I still miss my BR Eagle Eye. 21.5 weeks old.
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    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    This is our cat, Leroy the Hunter with our Barred Rock, Featherhead. They all get along very well, but Feather wants his kill for herself :)
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    Help...I hate my Rooster.

    We had a Buff Orpington that was 21 1/2 weeks old that we culled this weekend. He was so rough with the hens. He tried to mate while one was laying and tore up a bunch of back feathers. He tore one of their ears almost all the way off. Our Barred Rock is the same age and when I turn my back, he...
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