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    Review by 'SVTechChick' in article 'Reasons To Grow A Chicken Garden'

    I'm giggling because our chickens live in our garden during the day -- however, we have too high of a chicken to garden ratio, and they will denude the entire garden if left to their own devices. I call them little feathered goats. I've had to 'critter fence' off our native garden/meadow and our...
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    Olive Egger? Silkie Mutt?

    Yeah, these eggs were rescued from the mini farm at the local high school. They have a huge variety of chickens so it's really hard to know...the possible combos are endless. One started laying beautiful tan eggs...She is a beautiful black work silver collar markings. We'll see!
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    Olive Egger? Silkie Mutt?

    So, this lovely girl is from 'unknown parentage' but I had presumed one parent was a Silkie as she has extra toes. Now looking around, I'm wondering if she is by some strange magic a Sapphire Olive Egger mix (I doubt she is purebred). She has the floof on her head, and the appropriate coloring...
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    Silkie/Easter Egger mix???

    Curious as to what color eggs these girls lay. I have what I think (or thought) was a Silkie mutt, but she is looking exactly like a Sapphire Olive Egger -- which is exactly what this top chicken looks like, but without the feathered feet and the black skin. She hasn't started laying yet, and...
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    Chicken "mutt" club!!!

    Okay, we have some babies who are mutts. Parents were likely purebreds, not sure which. Help me guess!
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    Chicken escaping in Suburbia

    Got it! We just did one, we'll see if it works
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    Chicken escaping in Suburbia

    Yeah, that's what we are thinking. She's a sweetie, but...
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    Chicken escaping in Suburbia

    We've let our girls free range in our front yard for five years to the delight of our neighbors. We have lots of cover and a garden fence, and they can get back to their coop at ant time, and we lock them up at night. All of them have been very happy...until JoJo. She first started getting out...
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    Hens not laying since July

    Curious to hear if your girls are laying again. Mine all stopped around June, and except for my Silkie, virtually no eggs until about a month ago, in December. Even my poult, who is now nine months old did not lay her first egg until she was eight months. The girls are >1, 2, 3, 5 and 7, and now...
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    Chickens on strike... for four months?!?

    Awesome folks, thank you -- We'll put them in 'confinement' this week, and see how it goes. I'll also do another round of 'butt checks on thee chicks', but luckily the Silkie's are small enough, we don't mistake hers for the others!
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    Chickens on strike... for four months?!?

    lol....our girls are SO spoiled!
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    Chickens on strike... for four months?!?

    We have scrubbed the yard looking for a 'hiding place' and have not found one...they have indeed done this before. We found a huge cache of egs under a big lavender bush...we called 'The Spa'.
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    Chickens on strike... for four months?!?

    We have a doxie who 'patrols' along the coop all night long, and if there was anything like a fox within 100 feet, we'd know. He goes nuts over a rat that wanders by. They are all super healthy looking, bright combs and eyes, good vents, and except on, perfect feathers. They have a large fenced...
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    Chickens on strike... for four months?!?

    The only thing was that we had a fox in the neighborhood about the time they stopped laying, and he attacked several hens (untended at the local high school about a block away). No mischief since then, but I do know those chickens stopped laying then, too. They're are no parasites we can see...
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    Chickens on strike... for four months?!?

    So, like many people, I was SURE this would resolve on its own, but alas... my five girls, of varying ages of eight months to seven years, all stopped laying suddenly in June when we had a heat wave. Our Silkie went broodie for two months, then popped up all she always does and lays every...
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