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    What Breed is this?

    We considered that, but Easter Eggers are known to lay eggs ranging from green to blue, brown, or pale white or pink. We are only getting bright blue from a them only.
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    Deep litter

    We use fine wood shavings from a local sawmill, and we put about 8 inches deep and it works very well (much better than pine shavings). Every weekend we have the ability to turn it over with a flat scoop shovel to refresh it, and we leave it piled high to give the chickens something to do in the...
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    Training to use nipple? How long?

    We use the nipples and the cups. When you are in the coop tap the nipples a few times (with the chickens present) to get water to drip, and the curious chickens will realize that is the water source. Should take no longer than 1 minute.
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    We gave ours scratch, hay, grapes, oranges (no peel), and grass. Also let them free range.
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    What Breed is this?

    Can you help us identify the breed of these two beautiful blue egg laying chickens? We believe they're Americauna, but are unsure. They have muffs. We appreciate the help.
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    Brahmas

    Definitely a Dark Brahma cockerel.
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    Production Red/RIR Hen or Rooster?

    Definitely a cockerel.
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    The waste! Oh the wasted feed...

    We also had your problem until we started using a bucket feeder. It ends up costing $30 if you don't have the tools to do it, but you make it up in feed.It's a 5 gallon bucket with 4 holes we drilled in it, and we stuck four 3" 90 degree street elbows in the holes. Now the chickens have to stick...
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    Coop Bedding?

    Here is a picture of what the sawdust looks like Exotica.
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    Coop Bedding?

    We have a garden so the poop is a great fertilizer. The sawdust is not like the sawdust you get from a miter saw, it is from a saw mill where they are stripping trees and making boards. So there term for "sawdust" is normal shavings chipped into smaller pieces and it is not dusty at all. We love...
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    Coop Bedding?

    We use "sawdust" from a local saw mill. It is more like little chips than it is dust. They allow us to go there and shovel as much as we want and only charge a few bucks for a garbage bag full. We keep it about 3-4" deep on the coop floor and it works very nice in our 8' x 8' coop. It sifts...
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    Chicken breed question.

    Thank you Pandapaws23. So we may have a Speckled Sussex Rooster and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hen. We will look those up. Any thoughts on that first one? It is a very pretty gray/blue/gold bird. Seems a bit smaller than the others we have. The farmer we got the chicks from had many...
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    Chicken breed question.

    We picked up some chicks from a local farmer and she told us that the birds below in order are a Americauna, Speckled Sussex and a Easter Egger. They are 9 weeks old approximately. Can anyone help confirm what they are. Thank you.
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    What breed Chicken is this?

    Thanks Scratch'n' Peck. Definitely a Dark Brahma now that we look it up after your note. Hard to tell the sex. Do you think this is a Rooster?
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    What breed Chicken is this?

    By the way, "he"? is 10 weeks old.
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