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    Topic of the Week - Managing Your Chickens' Molt

    My Wyandottes, that took a full, bloody year to start laying, decided to molt in December! It's now mid-January and they are finally fully feathered again. I give them the same feed but also grubs and black seed oil sunflower seeds for protein and fat. I refuse to provide a heat source for the...
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    Chicago rooftop

    If you make the setup you showed in the picture but make it the depth of the balcony, 10', and 5' wide and make a human door on the side. With the coop area high, like in the photo, the hens can utilize the entire bottom. That would make the run 50 square feet. Eight to 10 square feet of run...
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    Fake Eggs in Nesting Boxes-- Good Idea, Nah, or Meh?

    I started my hens with a fake egg in each of the three nest boxes. They will use only one and they fight over it. They will stand outside of it and yell at any hen that might be currently using it.
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    Do you keep eggs that were in freezing temps?

    Previously frozen eggs will have a thicker yolk but the flavor isn't affected. If the eggs have no visible cracks we eat them. I always wash my eggs just prior to cooking so any bacteria that might be on the outside doesn't get transferred to the inside when cracked open. If you have any...
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    Do Cinnamon Queens get along with submissive breeds like Orpingtons?

    I hope so because I am getting 6 Cinnamon Queen chicks to add to my year old Wyandottes.
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    4 cinnamon queens and 1 ?

    Sex linked chickens can vary greatly in appearance. It's generally agreed that Cinnamon Queens are a cross between RIRs and Silver Laced Wyandottes -or- Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island White. With RIR X RIW, at hatch, the females will be yellow/gold/brown and the roosters will be white. Not...
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    My house is 1 acre. Can my neighbr hear my rooster?

    I agree. Drop the neighbor off at the local pound.
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    My house is 1 acre. Can my neighbr hear my rooster?

    I agree with that. We're careful to keep our dog quiet but nobody else seems to worry about theirs. We live in the county and they don't restrict chickens or roosters but our little semi-rural neighborhood has deed restrictions that do. So we put up a six foot privacy fence around half of our 3...
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    Climbing plants for run.

    I never knew mulberrys were considered invasive in some places. I love them because they grow well, provide shade, are a treat for my rabbits and the chickens love the leaves. Where I am they are not at all invasive. I guess the pollen could be a problem for some people.
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    My house is 1 acre. Can my neighbr hear my rooster?

    My chickens are in the middle of 3 acres and the people who live down the street from me heard my girls egg song. They are across the road and three, one acre lots away. So if they can hear egg song that far away they could sure hear a rooster. If I had one.
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    Climbing plants for run.

    Some people are allergic to the pollen from hops.
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    Climbing plants for run.

    If it doesn't have to be climbing plants then you might consider mulberry. I have a mulberry tree/shrub growing in my chicken's run and between the chickens fertilizing it and me dumping their soiled water on it, it grows like crazy. It gives them shade in the summer and since it's deciduous it...
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    Maybe trouble with egg laying

    I had a young hen that started laying and after a couple of weeks she would go to the nest box, sit for a while, then get out and yell very loudly and wouldn't stop until I went to see if something was wrong. Then she'd go back to the nest box and do the same thing again. This went on for two...
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    Help! Hens Not Laying

    Hi, I'm new to Wyandottes but I have also read that they lay all through the Winter. They were originally bred in Maine for really cold weather and their fluffy butts keep them warm. Mine are nine months old now. I have six and only two have started laying but those two are still laying and it's...
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    New old member

    Hi all, This is my second time as a member of BYC and my third time with chickens. Many years ago I had Leghorns. Crazy wild birds that preferred to roost in our Pecan trees and every day was an exciting egg hunt for the kids! Then a multi year, career focused interlude with no chickens. About...
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