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    Is it safe to use fabric scraps in nesting boxes?

    Exactly the kind of answer I was looking for, thank you!! They sure do eat everything...sheesh!
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    Is it safe to use fabric scraps in nesting boxes?

    So, I cannot seem to find much information on alternative nesting materials. We got our first egg yesterday, yay! So exciting. For now the nesting boxes just have pine shavings and that seems to work great. However, I sew and crochet a lot. I have a lot of "serger spaghetti" and yarn scraps...
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    Rooster or Hen

    Just wanted to update that Princess Zelda is 100% rooster.
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    Nervous for my hens...I have a maturing Roo...

    Oh goodness no! I did not intent to sound combative! In all honesty, I am just super sad about our Roo situation as I've been reading some horror stories :( My kiddos will be devasated if we have to rehome him but they'd surely be more devastated if he hurt someone. I agree they are tricky as...
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    Nervous for my hens...I have a maturing Roo...

    Yes, the child is mine holding our bantam cochin. Yes, this is our first experience raising chickens which I guess makes us inexperienced. However, we did not just get chickens willy nilly. We have been doing our homework for over a year (before brining home baby chicks), my oldest is enrolled...
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    Nervous for my hens...I have a maturing Roo...

    Well, as newbies to the world of chickens, I have a few concerns. We started with four baby chicks and here we are about 12 weeks later and we have ourselves one big Black Australorp that turned out to be a rooster, a Wyandotte, an Easter Egger and a bantam Cochin. My concern is...when the roo...
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    hens or roosters?

    Are yours hens?
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    hens or roosters?

    Hatched March 30 so just over 10 weeks....
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    hens or roosters?

    Well, I think I need your expert opinions! Do you think Princess Zelda might be a Roo? She is making some really awful sounds in the morning, not so much a cock a doodle doo but more like a cat dying?! I am quite attached and really hoping we can keep her if she is a Roo. I am allowed where I...
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    Rooster or Hen

    Not sure about our Black Australorp...she/he seems to be attempting to crow but not consistenly and really it sounds nothing like "cock-a-doodle-doo" and more like a dying cat?! She/he is also much bigger than the other hens and definitely the one in charge. Any thoughts?! "Princess Zelda"...
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    What do you have in your flock?

    This is our first round with chickens and we got 4...sort of wishing we got a few more now but not ready to go through the baby chicks in the brooder in the house again for awhile, ha! We got a Wyandotte, an Easter Egger, a Bantam Cochin (didnt realize she was a bantam when she was a baby chick)...
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