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  1. Wildflower_VA

    meyers hatchery

    As much bragging as I did about Meyer Hatchery, I have to take it all back. Never again will I deal with them. Live and learn.
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    July 18th "Due Date"! Anyone else?

    Quote: It took about a month for the eggs from my Australorps (hatched March 1, begin laying July 22) to consistently reach "medium" size and a few more weeks to reach "large" size. This was in prime laying season, though, and from the beginning the eggs from my BAs were much larger than the...
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    July 18th "Due Date"! Anyone else?

    I got two more little pullet eggs today, so more than one is laying. I have seven BR and three BO pullets, so it could be any of them. I don't add any supplemental light, but we have been unseasonably warm for so long that spring trees are blooming. We have had some nights in the mid-20s, but...
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    July 18th "Due Date"! Anyone else?

    One of my barred rock pullets laid a wee tiny egg on November 29. It weighed 1.31 ounces. I got another one yesterday, but was not in the coop when this one was laid, so don't know which one laid it. A couple of the BOs have been squatting for a week or so. Today is a very sad day for me...
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    when to get new hens

    Quote: The production reds and sex links might need replaced, but the rest should keep going for another couple of years at least. You have 8 heritage breeds and get about 4 to 8 eggs out of 12, which sounds like the production hens have layed themselves out and the rest have slowed down a bit.
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    Questions about letting a broody hen hatch out some eggs

    Quote: I left mine in the nesting box too and blocked off the nest box and a larger area around it. The others didn't seem to mind laying in the other boxes. I'm assuming this is her first brood. I only suggest that you may want to have a brooder set up just in case she decideds it's too much...
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    Cute picture of a Dog and Silkie, And more!

    Wow! Great pictures! Enjoy I did! Makes me feel sorry for every child who does not grow up with chickens.
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    when to get new hens

    Do you have production breeds or heritage breeds? That distinction makes a lot of difference on when egg production declines enough to have to replace them.
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    Watch my babies grow! **EXTREMELY PIC HEAVY

    The 2 week EE picture is soooo cute! It looks like she is pouting getting ready to cry! Too precious!
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    Strangest and Silliest Chicken Names?

    Quote: Patricia Foreman, writer of chicken books, named one of her hens Oprah Henfrey because she is so social. It's one of the hens she takes to nursing homes as a therapy chicken.
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    Can one-eyed heritage SS hen be used for breeding non-show quality???

    Quote: I intend to keep her for eggs and eventually for meat when her laying days are over, but I will keep her out of the breeding pen if someone with a lot more knowledge than me tells me that she will continually produce one-eyed offspring. If she tends to broodiness, I could conceivably...
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    Can one-eyed heritage SS hen be used for breeding non-show quality???

    Quote: My situation is that I am an older (61) disabled female, living alone on my mini-farmstead (purchased last July 2010), with limited resources to get my sustainable farmstead off the ground and up and running. Hatchery birds were the best I could do this year. I tried for several...
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    Can one-eyed heritage SS hen be used for breeding non-show quality???

    Quote: That is what I am hoping for. I would just like it to be confirmed by people who have had this defect show up either in "incubation disasters" or good hatches where genetics is the problem.
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    Can one-eyed heritage SS hen be used for breeding non-show quality???

    Quote: Thanks! I am NOT breeding for show, so it makes sense to at least give her a chance, since she has no other issues and her missing eye hasn't affected her negatively in any way. She is pretty high on the pecking order among the other pullets. My main reason for getting speckled...
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    Can one-eyed heritage SS hen be used for breeding non-show quality???

    Thanks for looking!!!!
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    Can one-eyed heritage SS hen be used for breeding non-show quality???

    This is my first spring/summer getting my sustainable homestead up and running. My goal is to start with four heritage dual-purpose breeds that will breed and produce replacement chicks the natural way by next spring. I am not looking for show quality or SOP birds, but don't know if one of my...
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    WHY is my chicken so LOUD!!?

    They get very loud right before they start to lay. This was a more consistent clue that they were near laying than squatting. Only a couple of them squatted, all them got loud. My very quiet black Australorp girls got so loud at first I was afraid the neighbors would complain, and I am out in...
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    BAD Rooster!

    Please forgive me for hijacking your thread, but since we are already on the subject of mean roos... I have just introduced the first roos into my flock (the first I have been around since I was a child on the farm) nearly 10 weeks ago with an order of straight run speckled Sussex, barred rock...
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    A few things i'd like to clear up first..

    Quote: Squatting is when you approach from behind them and they actually squat down to the ground and hold their wings out and away from their body. The same position they would get into for the rooster to mount them. Quiet chickens is another sign that they are a while away from laying...
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    A few things i'd like to clear up first..

    I raised six black Australorps from the time they were two days old. In the brooder they loved to perch and by a couple of weeks old they slept on a 2x4 roost I had in their brooder. I moved them out to their coop/run when they were seven weeks old, and they have never slept on a roost since...
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