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    Adult hen breeds

    We have four hens that we got as chicks from a local farm that has a free-roaming free-loving flock of various breeds. We are a nature center and like to have informative information about all of our animals so I'm hoping to pick out at least the dominant breed in each of these hens. I got the...
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    Frizzle question

    We incubate eggs each year for our preschool and we never know what we are going to get from the farm (we love surprises!). This year one of the wee ones started getting crazy curled feathers which after some research seems to be a frizzle. I'll try to post some pictures this weekend but have...
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    Introducing young new hens

    Thanks so much! That was very helpful!
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    Introducing young new hens

    Hi everyone! We are incubating eggs for our second year at the nature center and are considering keeping one or two of the hens to add to our small flock. We have three hens from last year's hatch. What is the best way to do this? I read a couple of posts that talked about putting the new...
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    Chicken Entertainment?

    I'm pretty new to backyard chickens but here is what we've done a couple of things to keep our tiny flock busy. We covered the bottom of their yard area with leaves and they love scratching through them to get to bugs and any food items I throw down. They had a good time with a couple of...
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    Rooster hates men!

    Thank you all for your quick replies! I'm happy to find such an active message board. To answer a couple of questions...I believe Herman is a Rhode Island Red, he looks like the Kellogg rooster. We did not get specific breeds, just whatever hatched out of the eggs that were donated by the...
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    Rooster hates men!

    Hi everyone! I am brand new to this board so I hope I am doing everything right! I am in charge of animal care at a nature center and we recently hatched several chicks as a project for our on site preschool. We got so attached to them we decided to build a yard/coop, keep the hens, collect...
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