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    Still ignorant after all these year...

    Thanks to all that replied to my problem. Actually quite excited to see how the rooster saga plays out. I never thought I would have one. Thank goodness we moved to our 40 acre ranchette last year.
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    Still ignorant after all these year...

    What do you feed if not layer feed?
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    Canned Salsa separating

    I have been pressure canning for about fifty years. I have always uses the ball blue book as my pressure and time guide. My tomato products always separate, juice, stewed tomatoes, salsa...etc. it doesn't harm the finished product. I just shake it up befor I open the jar. I know that is a simple...
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    Still ignorant after all these year...

    hello everybody. I have had chickens for 3 years now. It would seem that there would come a point where I could say that I know what I am doing. My best old gal just got over a case of salpingitis that I used backyard chickens site on a daily basis... In April, I bought 9 pullet chicks at my...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Hello Arizona chickeners. I am chickening in St. Johns Arizona. I have a flock of 11 ladies and I just found out today....one gent that was supposed to be a pullet. We have 40 acres of the most beautiful high desert, but the beauty comes at a price. Hawks, coyotes and foxes keep trying to end my...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    We got 9 pullets from our local feed store in April. This red in question has matured much faster than the others and I swear I heard a cockadoodledoo this morning.
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Can you tell me the sex of this chicken? The red one...
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    Stray chicken in my yard

    I knew it was a bad picture but it runs off when I try to get closer. Wii work on getting a better pic. What is the protocol with neighborhood chicks? Should I try and capture her or let her do her thing?
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    Stray chicken in my yard

    This chicken is a stray in the neighborhood. What can anyone tell me about it? Gender, age, breed?
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    My first egg from my accidental chicken!!!

    Another tiny egg today. I am loving this. I give my gals shelter and food and they give me eggs that as of last Saturday were 5 dollars a dozen at the store. I also love her egg song. This is great.
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    My first egg from my accidental chicken!!!

    Thanks to all for sharing my eggcitement. I was just reading a chicken treat thread and someone posted that they had given their chickens leftover scrambled eggs as a treat. That's what I want......to be able to have leftover eggs. Imagine having so many eggs you can throw out the eggcess.
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    My first egg from my accidental chicken!!!

    My girl had her first egg today. I just found out they were girls and I only had to wait a week or so and this little miracle happens. The egg itself is a light tan color and very petit. Do eggs get bigger after a while? I am so excited.......much more so than all my friends that I woke up this...
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    When life gives you chickens........

    Can anyone tell the approximate age of my chickens? Also, will the black ones comb become lighter as she approaches egg production?
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    My chicken found me! Any help is appreciated

    This is exactly how I got my two girls. I call them my accidental chickens. I went out to hang up clothes and they had taken up residence in my husbands workshop. He made a coop and enclosure for them the very next weekend. Now they are safe and better fed than my child. They seem to enjoy their...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    My chickens ate a head of loose leaf lettuce and are working on a head of Napa cabbage. They love greens. Can they get too much? I am so new to this that I am afraid I will harm them with my enrichment efforts.
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