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    How can you tell a female from a male Americana?

    Not likely. Again, I'm working under the assumption that Americana = Easter Egger. They're kind of a mixed bag of genetics, so some have fluffier cheeks, some have fluffier beards, some have no fluff at all! My EE hen has a bigger, bushier beard than my EE roo does. Can you notice a size or...
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    How can you tell a female from a male Americana?

    Well, in about 10-13 weeks, one will be crowing and the other will be laying eggs. But seriously, working under the assumption that americana = easter egger, I can tell you that the males will be more colorful. They tend to have have reddish patches on their wings and just be more pretty to...
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    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    That's the thing though. They've been brooding outside with no heat source since I got them home from the post office. It's regularly hot here, with daily high temps between 105° and 95° and nights usually above 75°. Yay Louisiana swampy summers. I check on them at night to make sure they aren't...
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    Chicken math

    I think I did chicken math wrong? I mean, I still meant to have just a few but ended up with more... See, I've experienced a lot of early loss with chicks due to poor breeding of local "chicken swap" folks and a lesser known hatchery (5 of 6 barred rock chicks lost; one DOA and the others gone...
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    Pictures and names of your chickens

    My EE rooster is named Richard, and my EE hen is named Elizabeak (she's regrowing feathers since she came from a flock with some rough boys! Looking better by the day though :) ) Richard is about 2 years old, and Elizabeak is roughly a year and a half. Richard got his name because when he was...
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    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    My week old EE bitties (all 16 of em) and my beau's trio of mallard ducklings enjoying some green time :) They've outgrown the cardboard box, so I let them have access to grit this morning and set them down to play in the grass while I cleaned the brooder and coop this afternoon. They went...
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    Hello!

    @sunflour: Thank you! Pullets are definitely what I'm hoping for, but I wouldn't mind one additional rooster. One of the bitties certainly acts roo-ish already, charging my hand when I reach down to change out the waterer/feeder and holding "herself" like "she's" tough stuff! Time will tell for...
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    Hello!

    Thank you! I tend to be pretty shy, but decided it's been long enough and I better go ahead and join so I can participate in conversations now that I've got my own peeps to tend to :P
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    Hello!

    Hi there! My name is Alex. I've lurked around here for roughly three years. I've raised chickens before with family, but now I'm living with my boyfriend near Alexandria, Louisiana, and we have a little flock-in-the-making of our own. I have a handsome EE rooster and a solid white EE hen from...
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