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  1. Balfour Girl

    Comb Contest - Single! ***WINNER ANNOUNCED!!!***

    This is my beautiful Momo, a four-year-old bantom buff orpington. He died in my arms a few weeks ago, sob.
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    Balfour Girls Page

    Hi everyone... I've always wanted a blog, and never in a million years would I have imagined that it would be on a chicken website! I'm a 49 year old woman living the life of my dreams... well, close anyhow. It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, but my hubby and I are finally right where we...
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    Wow! I can't believe that had happened! And what I did! Update post 28

    Sweet!
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    Official Poll 2011 - Are Chickens Easier or Harder To Raise Than...

    I go down to the coop every morning with a bucket of fresh water and a pan of food. I open their little chicken door. I use a pooper scooper and garden trowel to pick up poop - both from the coop and their yard. I only have nine chickens so this is not as daunting as it sounds. I wash their...
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    My Hen Can't Hold Up Her Weight

    It started with a bad limp on Tuesday morning. By that night we had to lift her onto her roost. Sometime during the night she fell off and the next morning the other chickens were bothering her so I put her in a box and brought her in the house. She won't drink and is sporadically eating grapes...
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    You might be a crazy chicken lady/gent if...Go on, post yours!

    I agree! Cute chicken coop and I love the pic of the dog on the ramp, looking in the window!
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    You might be a crazy chicken lady/gent if...Go on, post yours!

    I know I'm a crazy chicken lady because my little buff orpington was in distress and I thought it might be that she was egg bound, so I gently rubbed olive oil on her vent and then stood with her in front of a heat lamp for 20 minutes, saying "push, push!" every couple of minutes until that big...
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    How can I tell the gender of my new chick?

    Hi all... I'm the proud "Grandma" of my first ever chick! I think its mother is a standard rhode island red and I know it's father is a bantam buff orpington, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell the sex from my photos? I can't figure out how to put them on this message, so I've added them to my...
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    Frostbite prevention - how often vaseline?

    That's good to know... wait till my hubby hears what I plan to do with the vaseline. He already thinks I'm silly when it comes to having happy chickens!!
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    Frostbite prevention - how often vaseline?

    We built a beautiful, insulated coop for our chickens this spring and keep the heat lamp on when it's really cold. That keeps the temperature around 40 degrees farenheit, which is just fine. Unfortunately, they like to be outside all day and that's a different story (more like 17 - 20...
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    To Light or not to Light?

    I'm knocking on wood, but I've been really, really lucky with my chickens not getting nuts on each other. I've had 2 hens, then one hen and two roosters, then two roosters, and now a rooster and two hens... and they've always (again knocking on wood) gotten along really well... having said all...
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    To Light or not to Light?

    Mine had their first taste of snow the other day and I think they were really offended. They kept looking in at me through the sliding doors as if to say, "Lonnie, make it go away!" My rooster was soggy, but the girls remained fluffy and beautiful... maybe they stayed under cover...
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    To Light or not to Light?

    We put a 40 watt bulb in the coop and it's a pleasant light, not too harsh. Of course we won't even use it till they're staying in every day, but it's good to know that they're okay with less light. Thanks Cynthia!
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    To Light or not to Light?

    My chickens are my pets and the eggs are a nice bonus. I know they won't come outside all winter because of the 4 feet of snow, so I want them to be happy in their tiny little coop (3 chickens in an 8' x 5' space). I know I would like to be in the light part of the day, but then I'm not a...
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    To Light or not to Light?

    We put a light in our coop to keep them warm this winter... plus our coop is small and dark and I thought they'd appreciate lights. Am I wrong?
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    Latest Crisis... Hawks!

    I've lost one hen to a bird (hawk, owl?), two to coyotes and two to raccoons. Hard lessons learned, all of them, but I'm still allowing my gang to free range. As long as they stay in our yard, and we're home, they seem fine... but lately they've been wandering. A relative who was house sitting...
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    Could you use Styrofoam to cover cracks in Coop?

    I would worry that the chickens would eat the styrofoam. My hubby and I stapled a large roll of plastic around our coop and that did the trick.
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    I'm on egg watch! tap, tap, tap... 9/8 - WE GOT ONE!!!

    That's good... my hubby used to raise chickens before he met me so I figured he knew what he was doing!
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