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    3 Men & a Lady? Salmon Faverolles

    These chicks are 4.5 weeks old. What do you think - did we lose out this time on the male/female genetics dice? The sooner I know, the sooner I can try to place them, as I'm pretty certain I have some roosters in my other two breeds of chicks. They are slow in getting feathers, but I'm seeing...
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    I made a HORRIBLE mistake ordering from a hatchery! (Graphic Photos)

    I second the earlier post about the changes at the post office, due to the 2020 postmaster that was appointed. Mail service in general has gone downhill in rural areas drastically due to the reductions in staff, and changes to regional distribution centers. You all have certainly watched your...
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    Garden Loft coop plans - do wild birds enter through top?

    We're building a modified version of the Garden Loft coop. The plans show a flat hardware cloth roof/ceiling to the run and coop, with the area above open between the beams. My husband's certain that wild birds will fly in and sit on top, leaving behind droppings. Worried about avian flu, he...
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    UPDATE: SHE IS SICK!! SUGGESTIONS? UPDATE: Is there a chance a production breed will never produce an egg? see pics of our girl

    I had one hen that didn't lay an egg until she was over a year old. People here kept insisting it would happen any day (it didn't); that there was a hidden nest (there wasn't). After a year, I found a "fairy egg" in the run - a tiny, elongated egg. It was so small I thought a robin's nest was...
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    Looking for Appenzeller Spitzhauben.

    I've tried contacting Spring Creek Farms, as I only wanted the silver spangled variety. No response. If you can't get them to respond, looks like you'll get whatever color they decide to send you. I hope to get our coop completed soon, and I'm also in Washington now. Maybe someday I'll end...
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    Appenzeller Spitzhauben Breeders

    I'm also looking for Spitzhauben. I live near Spring Creek hatchery, and can't get them to answer any emails. I wanted the spangled, and on their webpage, you can't pick colors. So I even contacted some people listed as members in the parent club, and only got one response. They ship eggs...
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    Slackers, or am I expecting too many eggs?

    Probably another newbie observance, but besides the all brown eggs that made me think something was wrong (i.e. Easter Egger must be laying brown), there's the Bielefelder that pretends to lay, but doesn't. So today, she was in the nesting box for about 2 hours. Then I heard what I sure...
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    Is this a Mille Fleur D'uccle? (roo)

    Yes, they're the same.
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    Slackers, or am I expecting too many eggs?

    Thanks for the link. I didn't know how to do a vent exam, have been putting OFF doing a vent exam . . . but I guess I should just do it!
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    Performance dogs

    Fast CAT is fun and easy, and I don't have biddable, trainable breeds - Nordic all the way (Siberian Husky & Finnish Spitz). Our Siberian was #2 in the country when we first started, and I never got a clean start with him because he was so very excited to start running. He got loose from me...
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    Slackers, or am I expecting too many eggs?

    Thanks for all the responses. I'm not sure of the age of the light Brahma, but the friend that gave me her & 3 others ordered chicks last March, so those 3 (Easter Egger & Bielefedlers) are only one year old. He thought the light Brahma was from the previous year's order, so 2 years is the...
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    Slackers, or am I expecting too many eggs?

    I have seven laying hens. The maximum # of eggs that I've gotten is 4; daily average is 3; sometimes I get 2 or 1. Egg production began increasing in January, more so in February and March, but seems to have stopped at the average of 3 eggs. Is 3 out of 7 considered a good percentage of...
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    The Saga of Daria: When will she heckin’ lay?!

    I've had a similar situation, so have been reading with interest . . . now that Daria has finally laid an egg, when will Mabel lay one? She's an EE/Americana and she's about 46 weeks/11.5 months old and no egg! She was hatched towards the end of March 2020, and I got her in mid-September 2020...
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    Can I refuse to re-home my rooster?

    While others have confirmed this by checking out your local ordinance, just want to repeat that living in an unincorporated area does not mean that you don't have zoning ordinances. Early posts stated that only state laws applied - that's not true. Your county may have regulations, which are...
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    Can we talk about rooster raising?

    I'm the one who posted about the rooster knocking my glasses off my face. He's been rehomed, and is going to a ranch in Wyoming where he'll have 26 Easter Egger hens. He won't be in a situation where there are small children, etc. So, he's not in the soup pot yet. Funny, the little bantam...
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