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    California - Northern

    I'm still here! Just not nearly as much free time to hang out on BYC and post stuff since our daughter & her 2 littles (now 2 and 5) moved up here from Burbank and now live with us. Farewell, peaceful retirement! Soooo glad the grandkids are growing up here on the homestead now, with our...
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    Fake Eggs in Nesting Boxes-- Good Idea, Nah, or Meh?

    I bought 3 solid ceramic fake eggs when my 8 same-age pullets were getting close to laying for the first time. (My first flock, no veteran hen to show them.) Two brown eggs, one bluish-green (since 3 girls would be laying colors). It made them curious about the nest boxes (which they'd ignored...
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    Agree 100%!!! Duluth overalls have changed my life for all my chicken and garden work. So pretty, so tough, all those truly useful pockets! And now I have two fancy-print ones I wear into town on errands or to farmers markets, festivals, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, etc. and always get...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2025

    Owwwww, poor thing looks like she's part porcupine!!!!
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures - 2025

    Oh, good heavens, poor baby's the worst I've seen ever! And yet...I can't help laughing...she looks so thoroughly plucked!
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Rain finally arrived here in far northern Calif - 1.41" yesterday! Hoping it's an omen for a good wet winter. I was thrilled; the 8 hens were NOT. Grumpy girls glowering out from roosts in their covered run: "Not THIS again!" They're giving ~2 eggs/day mostly, and 2 have quit laying while they...
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    California - Northern

    :lau Private jet? Star Trek transporter???
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    How many hens for a 4 person household?/Potential oversupply??

    This is the second year I've water-glassed excess eggs from our 8 young hens. (BYC has lots of how-to info on that, it's very simple.) They've stayed nice & fresh for over 12 months with no refrigeration, stored in wide-mouth gallon jars in our basement/garage. Just need clean UNwashed eggs...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Yup, same here...only one egg out of the 8 girls yesterday, lots of feathers in the coop & run and several hens have bare patches with pinfeathers starting to poke through. (That has to be miserable/itchy/tender?😬) Shorter days are very noticeable now, production dropped sharply from average 5...
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    Coffee Club

    😄 Our barely 2-yr-old granddaughter is fascinated with sheep! Not something they had around their apartment in Burbank before they moved up here to rural Humboldt with us. Our neighbors have sheep (in with their rescue goat herd) and that was the only kind of critter she wanted to visit at our...
  11. RedwoodCoastChick

    California - Northern

    SO TRUE! We've lived in McKinleyville, north of Eureka for years now, and our SoCal and out-of-state friends just can't wrap their heads around the vast rural areas north of the Bay Area and maybe Napa-Sonoma wine country! We've started telling them that northern Humboldt is "almost Oregon"...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Hey there, fellow Old Folks -- it's been ages but I'm back. Our peaceful retired world got topsy-turvied when our elder daughter's marriage broke up in early 2024 and she left so-very-urban Burbank with her 2 little kids and moved in with us, waaay up here behind the Redwood Curtain to our rural...
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    Coffee Club

    Love it! We have a neighbor down the road who collects donated Christmas trees for his pampered goat herd. He posts on our local Nextdoor social media site that he'll pick up trees to be "recycled" in this very natural manner; we just private-message our address to him & leave the tree at the...
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    Mature hen laying shelless eggs every 2-3 days - what is wrong???

    Th Thank you, Eggcessive. Likely it's because they are all due for their first molt, then. (Since we're into October now, I'm worried they'll molt just as our cold, rainy weather starts!) I still can't tell which of my brown-egg girls is laying the shell-less eggs so wouldn't know who to dose...
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    Mature hen laying shelless eggs every 2-3 days - what is wrong???

    One of my brown egg layers (not sure which one) has been laying a shell-less egg every two to three days over the past ~3 weeks or so. I have 8 hens all just over a year and a half old. Three lay green or blue eggs so I know it's not one of them; often all 3 colors are there along with the...
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