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    New mixed flock @ 6 weeks - 3 suspected roos - help?

    I picked up 12 'sexed' chicks from the feed store in early March. The bin was EEs, BOs, BRs, SLWs, Speckled Sussex, Partridge Rock, and Welsummer. I can't tell the PRs from the Welsummers because I'm new to those breeds. The others are fairly obvious as far as breed is concerned, but there...
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    7 week old olive eggers with no red in comb/wattles... are we pullets?

    I just went out to feed the chicks and picked up the second to last chick and noticed some coppery feathers coming in on its neck (which you can see in the picture) and on the shoulders. More evidence of a cockerel?
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    7 week old olive eggers with no red in comb/wattles... are we pullets?

    Here are pictures of the three OEs in question:
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    7 week old olive eggers with no red in comb/wattles... are we pullets?

    We let our broody EE hatch some eggs we got from a breeder-- they are BCM roo over EE hen. I'm really hoping all three are girls and anxious to know for sure! Chick 1 was fast to feather out, has a light (yellow/flesh colored) pea comb and nearly solid black body. Chick 2 was fast to feather...
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    Integrating first time broody mama + clutch with the rest of the flock... what to expect?

    My EE's first bout of broodiness led us to buying OE hatching eggs and now we've got 4 beautiful and healthy 4 week old babies. They've been in a partition inside of our chicken run where the other hens can see the little family but have had no physical access. There have been some...
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    can week old EE chicks be feather sexed?

    Oh, boo. He is one of the prettiest roos I've ever seen! Glad you got to keep him for as long as you did... sounds like he was really trying to stay on the downlow for you. :)
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Showing off my Olive Egger babies! These four are FBCM over EE, lovingly hatched by our excellent first-time broody EE hen. They are 4 weeks old today and are just a delight to watch. So far all four are various shades of black to gray with no colored feathers appearing yet. All seem to be...
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    My Craigslist chickens have a cold

    There's no such thing as a chicken with a cold-- if your birds are showing cold symptoms, they might have a respiratory infection like mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG). I know about MG because I too bought some chickens from a woman on Craigslist that were infected, and the infection spread to my...
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    My first loss: a hawk got my precious silkie, and I'm beside myself

    I let my girls free range in my suburban fully fenced backyard from time to time, because it is such a joy watching them graze and chase bugs and prance around like happy, happy chickies. I let them out this afternoon and went inside to finish up a sewing project, and an hour later I heard a...
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    Hen turned into a real BLEEP when she started laying

    My black silkie did the same thing! She started acting like a tyrant about a week before her first egg, and it continued getting worse for two weeks. I put her in time out (brooder pen in my garage) for a week, then reintroduced her... no change in behavior. Then I ordered some pinless...
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    Are your EE poor winter layers?

    My 3 EEs are all slowing down for winter while my BRs, BOs, and RIR are giving me almost an egg a day each. I'm lucky to get one green egg every two days. Good thing I have the other breeds to keep my egg cartons full, otherwise I'd be pretty ticked off at my EEs. :) Pacific NW, temps...
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    What breed of chicken are the broodiest!!!

    Another vote for silkies-- I have a 9 month old silkie who started to lay at 7 1/2 months, laid for a month, then went broody. She's doing a great job of it, for it being her first go! I haven't seen her out of the nest at all in 3 weeks, although one morning she was sitting in a different...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    First egg from the original members of our flock-- we got 7 day old chicks from the feed store in early June and later added 3 older hens. The older hens are all laying, but this egg is super special! From Princess Leia, my son's 21 1/2 week old barred rock. He's so eggcited!
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    Why are my chickens plucking out each others fluffy bum feathers and eating them?

    My silkie started doing this about two weeks before she started laying, then continued for another two weeks. It drove me mad! I've been giving the flock a few handfuls of black oil sunflower seeds and some mealworms every day, hoping the extra protein would nip this behavior in the bud. The...
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    How long to keep aggressive pullet in time out?

    So I'll pop the brooder pen in the garage this afternoon when my husband gets home from work. I've also ordered some pinless peepers, in case her week of time out doesn't solve the problem.
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