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    Blind Hen?

    My broody hen hatched out some chicks this weekend. I had her in a rather constricted brooder box, and wanted to give her some more space, now that the babies are running about. I put in a chicken wire internal fence, fencing off part of the main coop run - there is a...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    3 weeks and a bit ago I posted that my Barnevelder was broody, and that I had scrounged 14 eggs for her. This is her second clutch, having raised 4 little ones last year. Anyway, the day after putting the eggs under her I found that she had rolled 6 of them back out, and they were quite cold...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Thanks for the information. I think there is 1 dark egg from my Welsumer, as well as at least 1 green egg. The rest are light brown. So I'll have a look at about 10 days, and see what I shall see :-) MissLydia, thanks for the link. Very informative! I won't be terribly upset if none of...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Yesterday morning I found that my broody was sitting on 8 eggs ... and 6 more were out in the cold :-(. And when I check her sometimes she is on them all, and sometimes one or two are not quite under her. I took the 6 away - will feed them back to the chickens - but I've decided to just let...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I have just put 14 eggs under my broody Barnevelder. She has been sitting on her nest since Sunday, and I have been collecting/soliciting eggs for her since then. She hatched out 4 chicks last spring, and I am hoping that she will be as good a Mama this time as she was then. I didn't see this...
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    Grit/Oyster Shells

    ray's two cents : We've never used grit for our birds because they free range, so if you let yours out of the coop some time you probably won't need it either. My birds free range almost everyday, and they still clean up the grit I have put in their run. I figure it is cheap insurance; if...
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    Questions about 1st time processing

    Thank you Ridgerunner; I suppose I should have looked a little harder before posting
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    Questions about 1st time processing

    One of my hens went broody 2 months ago, and hatched out 4 chicks. I don't know their gender yet, but am gearing up for all eventualities . I have room for 4 more girls, and can fit in 1 more rooster, but if there are more cockerels I can't keep them. These are not meat birds - one is pure...
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    My neighbor is complaining about my rooster :/

    ...rooster that had died. So I got a rooster, and we all enjoy his joyful noise - but he is quiet until first light. I just told one of the neighbours today that it looks like one of the chicks is a boy, and she was pleased, as it makes it seem *more like the country*. I love living where I do
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    Hawks eating my chickens Please Help!!

    Is it possible to make a smaller fenced area within their large run, and put netting over that? Your girls will have less space for awhile, but the hawks won't get any more, and will likely leave once they find there are no more free meals. And then you can let them out again, but maybe only...
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    Needed: a reason not to roast Barndevelder hens

    I have a Barnevelder pullet; she has been laying since the beginning of last month - she was 27 weeks old when she started . She isn't very friendly, but that is mostly my fault I think; I didn't interact with her and her "siblings" as much as I maybe should have when they were babies. Her...
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    Ice Tea - Sweet or Unsweet?

    ...lunch, as hot tea is usually too complicated for the average restaurant. Sometimes I will make sun tea with herbs from the garden, but this is not *tea*; *tea* is black tea. When I am sick hot tea with a bit of honey (and a bit of rum) is welcome. Hot tea is actually very cooling on a hot...
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    Take the Clean Kitchen Quiz

    I like the question "do you eat undercooked eggs?" - That's loaded, isn't it? No, as far as I am concerned my eggs are perfectly cooked (or in some cases not cooked at all), and they are as they should be for the purpose, and not "undercooked" in any way I got 80-something, mostly, I assume...
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    Kittens and chickens

    I have 5 cats - all housecats, but spend much of their time outdoors. 2 of them are mighty hunters, and the other 3 can, and have, brought down a mouse or two. All 5 of them will go to great lengths to avoid the chickens. My first rooster was a small Hamburg, but he made sure those cats...
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    What breed should I choose?

    Thanks everybody. I'll need to do some research into all the breeds suggested. Of course, I should never have come here asking - I now want all of them!
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    What breed should I choose?

    Good advice about the quarantining, but actually I am just gathering information at the moment, and am not planning on getting the new birds till next Spring. I figure that I may as well enjoy some brand new chicks again, since I need to keep them separate in any case, and I won't have time for...
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    What breed should I choose?

    Thats interesting; thanks. So, an OEG is protective, but not necessarily unfriendly to people? Unfortunately, I am limited to how many chickens I can have - 7 optimum, 8 maximum. Luckily, my neighbours like roosters, and were as sad as I was that mine was killed. I still have 4 girls - 2 NH...
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    What breed should I choose?

    I need some advice please. I have a little flock of (originally) 6 chickens - 5 hens and a rooster. Recently both the rooster and one hen were killed by the neighbour's dog (this is being dealt with, and is not a problem now that we know what has happened). I really liked my Silver Spangled...
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    Lemon Theft - Capture now too many lemons

    Zest your lemons, and then juice them. Put a useful amount (1/2 tsp or so) of the zest into ice cube tray divisions, and fill with juice (This will keep the citrus taste undiluted). Put into a ziploc once frozen. You'll probably have more juice than zest; bag that separately. If you need...
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    Chicken first aid

    Sammi, thank you for that information; I have copied it to have on hand in future. Sadly, she didn't make it through the night.
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