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    Perfect babysitter

    That is SO CUTE!... Good Puppy
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    best white egg layer - that is kid friendly?

    White Leghorn for sure. Mine is the friendliest of our 5 hens.. and lays the best. Eggs look just like store-bought!
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    Spoiled Silver Spangled Hamburgs in sick bay - too cute!

    Oh my gosh... that is the cutest thing ever!!!
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    My Girls are So Smart!!!

    Now that it's getting cold, I bought a plastic dog crate for my girl's open air coop (the shipping crate type with plenty of ventilation). I put it up on blocks about 1.5 ft off the ground and built some roosts to go inside. My girls are about 6.5 months old and have been sleeping on a pile in...
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    Went on vacation, we have the perfect chicken sitter!

    That's great! Nothing worse than coming back from a vacation to find animals not taken care of. We just got our girls this year and I've been wondering what we would do if/when we go out of town so that's great to hear
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    Egg Song bothering neighbors

    Thanks again for all the advice. I live in an unincorporated area, so not quite city, not quite county. I couldn't find any hard and fast rules about chickens in my area so I'm sure if someone complained it could be an issue. Also, like Franko said, I just don't want to infringe on other's. I...
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    Egg Song bothering neighbors

    Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately her window is only about 20 feet away from the coop door and it's up high (my coop is at her basement level) so I don't think there would be a way to plant any sort of sound barrier. When I shut the one side of the door last night it did keep the coop quite...
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    Egg Song bothering neighbors

    For some reason my hens are much noisier than I remembered as a child. They are up at the very first crack of dawn and their egg song is very LOUD, but they usually quiet down within a few hours and are pretty much slient for the rest of the day. It doesn't bother me at all and I wouldn't be as...
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    my first fart egg

    Oh wow... and what a beautiful one it is. That's a keeper. Love the color!!!
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    Post here if you DON'T wash clean-looking eggs

    I don't wash mine. We've been getting eggs for a couple months now and they've all been pretty clean!
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    Finally got six eggs today so far ...

    Awesome!... We're still at 2 eggs a day out of 5
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    Breakfast with our own eggs for the very first time!

    Contrats!!! We had our first scrambled eggs this weekend as well... so exciting!!!
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    Gelatinous Eggs

    I have 5 young girls and I've had one of them laying for about a week now... perfect little white eggs. Then yesterday, I have my usual perfect egg in the nest ... and two shell-less eggs just randomly about. The membrane was so thin, I couldn't have picked them up if I tried, so I scooped them...
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    Shavings vs pellets

    There is a pretty big difference. Shavings are a lot messier and more difficult if you want to keep them in a contained area. Pellets make less of a mess. When they get wet, they just turn to saw dust. Shavings, on the other hand, are probably more "comfortable" for the chickens. I guess it...
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    Found our First Egg Yesterday!!!!

    UPDATE- It is definitly the leghorn laying. Caught her yesterday around noon. My husband and I had the window open and were chuckling at all her squacking. I peeked outside and saw her in the nesting box. About 20 minutes later there was a surpirse waiting She has layed 3 eggs total now, all...
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