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    16 week old white leghorns eating oyster shell??

    Hi! I have eight 16 week old white leghorn pullets that, yesterday, I integrated into my flock of laying hens. Because the leghorns aren't laying yet, I switched the entire flock to an all flock feed and am free feeding oyster shell separately in the coop for the laying hens. Today, I went out...
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    12 week old eating layer

    Thank you so much for the update! That is very helpful, to know that at 2 years old your chickens are still happy and healthy!
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    12 week old eating layer

    Wondering if you could provide an update on this for me? Since it has been nearly 2 years since you posted this, have you ever noticed any poor health in these chickens that were offered laying feed at 12 weeks of age? Are they still living and laying?
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    Buff Orpington Rooster --Still won't Rooster!

    Just an update: This guy finally started crowing at around 29 weeks! It took him long enough! Now he crows ALL THE TIME, and he finally has those hens whipped into shape! Hopefully this will provide encouragement to anyone else who might find their self with a rooster like mine, one who just...
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    6 Week old Silver Laced Wyandotte, Boy or Girl??

    Sorry to take so long to get back to everyone. Thanks everyone for your comments, this chick put an end to the speculation at 9 weeks old, when he started crowing!! So, Rooster, he is!
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    Crossing Silver Laced Wyandotte's with other breeds...what do you get??

    Hello all! I added some chicks to my flock late this winter. Among other things, I ordered 3 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets. I ended up with 2 SLW roosters and 1 pullet, lol. I will keep one of these roos, and now I am planning which of my hens I will put in the new coop with him. I have hens...
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    13 week old SLW roo or hen?

    I have these two Silver Laced Wyandottes, both are 13 weeks old. I know the pictures are horrible, but as you can see, the SLW in the first pic has an obviously redder and larger comb and wattles than the SLW in the second pic. As you can see in the second pic, in the background, I have a third...
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    6 Week old Silver Laced Wyandotte, Boy or Girl??

    Thank you all for your input! I'm not worried about the single comb at all. I am pretty convinced it's a rooster, which I am pretty excited about!
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    6 Week old Silver Laced Wyandotte, Boy or Girl??

    Hello all, and happy Easter weekend! What you are looking at here is my brooder, filled with 15 six week old chicks, all supposed to be pullets. (as you can see, my very curious full grown egg layers wanted to be in the pictures too!) 3 of these chicks are Silver Laced Wyandottes...my very...
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    3 rubber eggs in 1 night --should I be concerned?

    Well, they are just being fed layer crumbles with fruit and veggie scraps once a week or so, but they hadn't had that for several days. We have dogs that we let out once a day that the chickens are used to and the dogs pen is on the other side of the property (2 1/2 acres). There are neighbor...
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    3 rubber eggs in 1 night --should I be concerned?

    I have 17 hens that are 23 weeks old and are just starting to lay. So far about 4 of them have started laying, one of those her first egg was soft shelled and I found it under the roost. I check every morning and evening under the roost to make sure another one hasn't laid a rubber egg (the...
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    Chicks born in the fall. When should I expect my first egg?

    Just wanted to post an update. We got our first egg from these girls yesterday, at 21 weeks and 5 days old! And there was another egg in a different box this morning, so it looks like I might have 2 laying! Thanks for all everyone's encouragement and advice and I am happy to know that, when you...
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    Adding 3 day old chicks to 10 day old chicks

    I have 15 chicks that are 1 week and 3 days old (10 days old) that I am brooding...Orscheln's has chicks that are 3 days old, that I would like to get 4-6 of them. Could I put the 3 day old chicks in with my 10 day old chicks?? Any advice??
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    Chicks born in the fall. When should I expect my first egg?

    There is one hen that at 17 weeks I was having trouble at a glance telling the difference between her and my roosters. She is a RIR. All the others combs are looking nice and bright and red, have been for a couple of weeks now, that is why I have been on pins and needles looking for that egg. My...
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    Buff Orpington Rooster --Still won't Rooster!

    Wow, thanks for that information! He is hatchery stock. Great to know that he is not abnormal!
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    Buff Orpington Rooster --Still won't Rooster!

    I have a 21 week old Buff Orpington Rooster that still hasn't crowed!! What's the deal?? He was at the bottom of the pecking order for a while, and frankly, terrified of the hens. But he's gotten over his fear, for the most part, but while all my other roosters (in different coops. He is the...
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    Introducing a young rooster to a flock

    Thought I would give a 3 week update on my rooster situation: After a week or 2 I cleaned this coop, which required me to lock all the chickens in the run, out of the hen house. This was a scary day for the Rooster, and he did spend many hours perched on the ramp as high up as he could get...
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    Chicks born in the fall. When should I expect my first egg?

    Hello All! My chicks that hatched on the 23rd of September 2015 are 21 weeks old this week, and still no eggs! I know this isn't ab normal and that generally I could still not expect an egg for another few weeks. I have never raised chicks from a fall hatch before this (only ever raised chicks...
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    Help! I accidentally Fed my Layers Medicated Chick Feed

    Thanks for the responses. Just to clarify, I'm not worried about the hens at all, I'm wondering if I can eat the eggs I got this evening, when they ate the medicated feed yesterday morning.
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    Help! I accidentally Fed my Layers Medicated Chick Feed

    Help! Yesterday morning, in the middle of a very large brain-fart, I accidentally filled my layers feeder with 18% medicated chick feed. I immediately freaked out, climbed in the coop and removed the feed, but about a cup or so of feed had spilled on the ground and I couldn't get it out before...
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