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    What is this?

    Found this in a nest box, anyone know what this is?
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    Sponsored Post Lawn and garden tip: backyard chickens as a natural way to fertilize, control insects and weeds.

    I compost all my girls waste to use in my vegetable gardens. The only problem with letting my girls in with the veggies is that while they do eat the weeds and bugs, they also love eating all the veggies they can get. And for those high up tomatoes they can't reach, no problem, they just jump...
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    Chicken Breed Focus Rhode Island Red

    Here are some pics of our favorite RIR Ruby as well as some of the girls helping prep a garden
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    sick RIR, please help

    I believe one of my RIR hens is sick and I'm not sure what is wrong or what I can do to help. Her symptoms started recently with her laying soft or sometimes shell-less eggs, usually at night from her roost pole. This went on for a week or so and I tried adding some vitamin D and ACV to their...
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    chicks hatched today

    Thanks Flockmaster. We have plenty of room as well, so we going to try the natural version, but just put out come chick food as well.
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    chicks hatched today

    We had a very broody BO hen and got two fertilized eggs from a friend. The hen sat on the eggs in one of the coop's nest boxes. The eggs hatched a couple of hours ago. What do we do? Leave the chicks with their adopted mom or move them to an incubator?
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    Very Broody BO hen....please help

    I've got a BO hen thats about 1.5 years old now and has had a tendency to go broody before. In the past I've used different techniques to help get her out of her broody cycles such as isolation, repeated dunkings in cool water, and putting cold packs under her in the nest box. However she...
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    Is lawn fertilizer ok around free range hens

    Does anyone have information if lawn fertilizer, like Scotts, is ok around free ranging hens. The stuff I'm putting on the rest of the yard is not a weed killer, strictly yard fertilizer and I was wondering if I could spread the stuff where the chickens free range and if I need to keep the...
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    Semi-concerned, should i be worried

    Thanks for the quick reply, I was hoping my girl was becoming broody (that was the least serious of things i was preparing myself to have to deal with). She has been in a nest box of much of the day so far and when i checked her vent to make sure there was nothing abstractly protruding...
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    Semi-concerned, should i be worried

    One of my BO hens (8 months old) has been acting a little odd and i'm not just wondering if i'm being justifiably concerned. She normally runs with the rest of the flock during the day doing what normal chickens do. Yesterday took her a considerable amount of time than normal to lay her egg...
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    help with one mean hen in my flock

    Ive got 3 RIR and 3 BO all the same age (7 months approx) and all are laying consistently. I know the behavioral tendencies between the RIR and BO and our girls have a pretty set pecking order. To help keep the peace, they are only in their coop during the night and free range during the day...
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    Hen crowing

    One of my 7 month old BO is the flock crow-er, she is by far not at the top of the pecking order but from anywhere within the 1.5 acres of property you can definitely tell she enjoys it
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    Do all hens begin squatting before they will start laying eggs

    Of my six hens, three will squat when I come up close to them. Of these three, only one is actually laying. Can I expect the other hens that are squatting to start laying soon? Also, I was curious... do all hens begin the squatting maneuvers before they start laying or will some hens begin...
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    First time owner checking progress

    all 3 RIR were in the nest boxes this morning scratching and pecking through all the wood shavings. I have not seen any of the girls do this before, hopefully they are building some comfy nests to lay in!...perhaps this is me just getting excited
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    First time owner checking progress

    This is my first time with chickens and I just want to check my progress so far. I have 3 buff orpingtons and 3 RIR hens that will be 5 months old at the end of march. I was curious to know what weight I can expect the birds to be at this age as well as what weight they should be when they...
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