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  1. smarsh2

    any ideas on this one?

    all of my hens ran up to me last night looking perfectly healthy. A few moment later one was doing some sort of tail dropping, squatting motion. She then just set there. when I approached her she stood up but immediately did the tail drop thing again. Anyway, she was dead this morning. No...
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    The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

    Never get tired of pics of baby chicks, and that is a better picture than you usually turn out Fred. ha
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    yet another hawk story

    first some history I have had a number of hawks visit the backyard through the years. Some have made half hearted efforts at turning my chickens into a meal, but to my knowledge, no feathers had ever been ruffled. I had one Cooper's to hover over a very defensive EE, roughed up like a...
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    Any Idea what breed?

    they are mixed breeds. They appear to have the european version of the americana / EE. One shows some wyandotte. None appear to be purebred. pretty however
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    can you trick chickens to start laying?

    yes you can trick the chickens into, but it is a real slight of hand trick, chickens watch closely. I have found it is easiest to slip the bought eggs into the nest without them seeing you if you distract them with a treat.
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    Chickens not laying...

    yeah, if she is broody, she isn't laying. we could stand to know how old the hens are. i am suspecting these aren't pullets, i would be surprised a pullet laying for only a couple weeks would go broody
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    When will they lay? Asked all the time but this is weird.....

    yeah, a little strange. sure they aren't laying but not being found? i would be curious too, but don't know what to tell you.
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    Can a chicken be tickled?

    i have a stand up routine that tickles my chickens, i am pretty sure i increase egg production thru laughter.
  9. smarsh2

    first eggs! but a problem... help!

    do you not an inclosed pin for them? most hens lay there eggs in the morning hours, and I always keep mine up in the morning so they have to lay where I can find them. If they are free run all the time, then this is going to be a problem. To make your nest boxes more inviting, make the openings...
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    Aggressive white leghorn

    i am afraid this is the nature of the breed. they are not as friendly or as docile as many other breeds and they are aggressive. this behavior will likely subside some in time. they are at the age when the pecking order is being established. but she will likely always be more aggressive than you...
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    Loud, Growling Chicken -- what are my options?

    I think you have about covered it. I don't think the collar would do any good. here is a point you need to know. every flock of hens seem to have a loud one in the group. it doesn't seem to necessarily, and in my experience has never been, the dominant bird. i believe that you are likely to...
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    The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

    my standard RIR hens are the friendliest, calmest, least flighty chicken I have ever seen; practically a nuisance under foot.
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    OMG my chickens ATE Mice, HELP!!!!

    I had a RIR pullet to recently kill and eat a short tailed shrew, and they were fighting over a small snake
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    Kentucky people

    oh, yeah, I am in the lexington area
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    Kentucky people

    Free to a good home, oh what the heck, a bad home, just someone's home but mine. one very nice looking 20 week old heritage RIR rooster. Has a tendency to crow, and crow, and crow, and crow, and crow, and crow, I think you get the idea. His name is Milton, mindless crowing is his game. I am sure...
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    rooster temperament

    I am no rooster behavior expert. As a matter of fact, and to no end to this bit, I am not too knowledgeable in any field. As I type this, I am getting the whiff of chicken poo from somewhere about my body. I have just went interior pin to physically abuse a uteful (youthful) EE rooster. It is my...
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    Dominique Vs Barred Plymouth Rock

    In all I can read, and one reason I have not tried Dominiques, is that they are very broody. Now some like that, but being a backyard chicken owner, I get tried of breaking hens from going broody.
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    mixed breed?

    i don't recognize it as a breed i know
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    Hoping for hens...

    i agree
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    Pullet or Cockerel SLW?

    pretty sure all are pullets
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