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    Smallest egg I've ever seen!!

    This looks very much like lizard eggs that were always in my horses track room. In FL there are small lizards everywhere.
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    Smallest egg I've ever seen!!

    That also looks very much like a lizard egg. In FL we have small lizards everywhere they used to lay their eggs in our tack room.
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    Strange Help Please

    Ok tomorrow I'll check her really good. She was missing allot of feathers for a while but those are coming in really really good. So I thought no one was picking on her. I got rid of two roos a while back that I thought were to ruff they were mean to most of them. So she was doing so much...
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    Strange Help Please

    I do unless i visually see predators around. She is the only one. She's also normally VERY broody. My husband and son think she is watching the new babies. She is not standing close to them. I went out and got her from the rain. Shaking a little. It's not cold here but she was pretty wet...
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    Strange Help Please

    Tonight when I arrived home I went out to check on some young hens I have in a large metal create in the yard. And for the second night I found one of our regular hens had again not gone in to the hen house. Tonight it is raining. We put her in the hen house last night. I don't like her in...
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    Comment by 'Shady Oak Farm' in article 'Egg Eating, What are the Causes, And How to Prevent It'

    I wish when I first started chicken raising I knew how serious this was. I had no idea it could get carried away so fast. This is a great article and if caught early very effective. My problem was so out of control by the time I understood all 27 hens were waiting for each other to lay to...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have a brown LH. I think he is the most beautiful rooster I have ever seen. Looking forward to seeing yours. Trying to educate how many colors do leghorns come in and the coordinating letters for those?
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    Pros and cons of unsexed chicks?

    Just my 2¢ Got gifted one doz. unsexed babies 6 were roos. Unless you plan to eat them don't do it. Took me almost a year to get rid of them. The whole time I'm feeding them, for what really? There were so many they tore up my girls and they didn't have a moment's peace all day. Nope no...
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    Need help fast identifying chicken killer!

    I know this it's a little bit after the fact but game cams are relatively cheap can be bought at Walmart installed easily and good to have around the farm for other reasons too.
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    Ended Official BYC Comb Photo Contest - 2018

    Was so nice to pour over so many pictures of your feathered babies. It is fun to see how passionate people are about our chickens. There were many wonderful entries thank you for sharing.
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    Comment by 'Shady Oak Farm' in article 'How To Clip Trim The Feather Wings Of Your Chicken To Prevent Flight'

    So torn about this... Any info would be appreciated. I have a small flock of 12 hens and two roosters. Currently they have freedom to roam around the farm. I also have seen at least two coyotes in broad day light in my pastures. One had a hen and the other was we think stalking them. I do...
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    Comment by 'Shady Oak Farm' in article 'Chicken bully/chicken victim - a two-sided issue'

    This is great info. Sadly a few of my girls are bald a bit on their backs. I got rid of the to many roos I had hoping this is the solution. If not I'm looking in to this "jail" option. Thank you
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    ENDED - Comb Contest - 2018 - Single

    May I introduce "Ranger Roo" I am a 18 month old Brown Leghorn rooster. My Mommy says I'm one handsome boy! Thanks guys this makes this site so much fun.
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    New from Shady Oak Farm VA

    Ok thank you. I was just so upset when it happened I had to vent and didn't know there was an emergency posts. Sorry.
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    New from Shady Oak Farm VA

    By the time we found her if she was bleeding she was no longer the one area is pretty nasty. After posting and putting her alone in the dog crate we investigated a bit more. Our dog who was laying about 2 feet from her asleep had no blood or evidence she did any thing wrong she has a good...
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