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    Setting next week. :) Hatching in the classroom beginning 2/6 or 2/7 Hatch-Along

    It's so wonderful to teach kids about this! Have them experience it! I just got a phone call from our local college last week, they were hatching in march-or supposed to-and someone messed up the order so 2 dozen hatching eggs arrived on jan 22! A wee tad early for a march hatch! I used to...
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    Canadians check in here....

    Hi everyone! Hi RF, I'm about 2 hours from the GTA, but sometimes get up to burlington way...i have buff orpington, barred rocks and easter eggers (and ameraucanas too-purebreds). Finished my hatching for this year, trying to get everyone to get along before the winter. But i will be...
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    Barred rock rooster/Rhode Island Red hen

    oh, if you look at my avatar photo that's one of the BR roo x RIR hen chicks right there, sitting in my hand.
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    Barred rock rooster/Rhode Island Red hen

    i just did this BR roo x RIR hen earlier this year. i also had a new hampshire, columbian rock hens in there too and a couple black sex linked hens...ALL the chicks were black with white tummies and white spots on the head. there was no sex linking-need the barred rock to be a HEN for that to...
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    What Is This? ChickenGeeks, Please Help!

    those are called meat spots. they're usually just a little piece of the reproductive tract that has shed off while the egg is passing down before it gets the shell. blood spots are made the same way, a little blood gets into the egg before the shell is put on. nothing to worry about-usually...
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    Is this A Barred Rock?

    they yellow one looks buff to me, my new hampshire was quite a bit more burnt golden colour than yellow.
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    Is this a dog or a coyote?

    100% a coyote. nice one too.
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    Canadians check in here....

    It's called "chicken math". LOL. you are in completely the right place......welcome everyone since my last post!!!! great to see everyone here sharing in the same addiction-my hubby just told me yesterday he wants a copper maran rooster. my 2 (yes, 2) coops are FULL!!!! i asked him where he's...
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    Picking on Americauna

    i was having the same problem with a pair off buff orpingtons i just got. my RIRs were just being awful. so i decided to be head chicken. anytime the RIRs went for them, i pecked the RIRs-just a swift finger poke. the RIRs learned in about 2 days that I was the one that dictated where they...
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    Online shopping... reusable egg cartons?

    maybe send an email to your friends that work in busy offices or something and see if they can save cartons for you? that's how i get mine (now i do chicken eggs, and while i have the occasional massive egg, it's rare)...?
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    cutesy chick pic

    she's turned into such a good mom! she has her little chick climbing all the way up to the roost that the big hens use at night, chick has to go to the first step, to the second step, to the window ledge, to the lower roost and then run over and hop up onto the upper roost. then she climbs up...
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    cutesy chick pic

    I just had to share this one. Believe it or not, I took it with my cell phone and it's probably the best pic i have of any of my chickens! This mom went broody and was absolutely miserable, so with my last hatch of chicks I slipped this chick under her, well, it wasn't quite that graceful....i...
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    Canadians check in here....

    welcome! essex isn't too far from me, i'm in elgin county close to west lorne. where abouts in essex are you?
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    OMG What have I done?

    i have more customers than eggs, and am constantly sold out....i only have 8 hens. i followed the advice of starting small a year ago . i have a wait list of 20 customers. i just hatched out 57 chicks in the last 2 weeks, had a broody hen that was getting really cranky, she hatched out...
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