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    Killer Muffins

    Yes, they were homemade muffins made with Nestle Choc. Chips. I guess the two that died must have pigged out.
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    Killer Muffins

    I feel horrible. Went into the coop the other day and found my Rainbow Dixie (8 months old) on its side unable to move. And a Dark Brahma unable to stand. For a few minutes I couldn't think of why they'd be in that sort of condition. Then I remembered my wife giving me a bag of about 15...
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    12 chickens, 9 eggs, 30 days

    Thanks to everyone for the insights, encouragement and sharing of pain! It's discouraging going out there day after day after day and opening the egg boxes and seeing nothing, yet you keep pouring the food to them! This is my 7th winter keeping laying hens, and I know and accept that egg...
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    12 chickens, 9 eggs, 30 days

    My flock was going strong until about October. Then they molted and haven't recovered. They started back up in mid-November sporadically, but it's been dismal since. I'm lucky if I get one egg a week. I keep a daily log of eggs collected, and in the last 30 days I've got 9 eggs. Granted...
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    Replanting a run? Tips?

    Anyone have experience replanting a run?
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    Replanting a run? Tips?

    So, after 5 years, my outdoor 25' x 25" fenced in run is a muddy, barren messy. No grass, no nothing, Just dirt. I can't relocate it, but I would like to restore it. I can temporarily make a smaller, adjacent run and direct the chickens into it for the spring, maybe into the summer if...
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    17 chickens, 1 egg a day - moulting? When will it stop?

    Into my 3rd week maybe of getting 1 egg a day from 17 hens, maybe 2 a day if I'm lucky. 6 hens are this year's chicks, so I don't think they've started laying (black sex links and golden comets, so they should start soon). But my other 11 hens are between 1 and 3 years old, and usually are...
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    Gross! What is THIS inside my egg??

    I've had plenty of double yolkers over the last 3 years of keeping laying hens. Never had the second yolk look like this though. It was very firm, also. Any ideas?
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    April's Fools eggs from my chickens (no joke!)

    Well, yours is much uglier than mine! I still wouldn't eat either of them!
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    April's Fools eggs from my chickens (no joke!)

    Quite funny that this happened on April Fool's, but today I got the largest egg AND the smallest egg I've ever had in 3 years of keeping layers. If my neighbor was around, I'd swear he stuck this little egg in my coop as a joke, but he's in Puerto Rico right now on vacation and not coming back...
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    Seeding pen with some sort of grain

    My chickens have worn down their 25x25 pen to just bare dirt and mud (and alot of manure). This spring, I'd like to seed it with something that will sprout and grow. I'll keep them out of it, of course, until it's done growing and ready for more trampling. What sort of grain/grass would...
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    My rooster isn't impressd with snow

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    Frustrating with egg laying regularity - time to cull the flock?

    So, I have a mixed flock of 15 hens. Brahmas, Orpingtons, Wyandotts, Australops, Leghorns, Barred Rocks and Auracanas. They range in age from almost 3 years old (about half will turn 3 this May) to 2 years old to almost 1 year old (Auracanas (3 of them) and brown leghorn (1) of them). I...
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    Auracanas egg laying regularity?

    I bought 3 Auracana chicks this past May, and I got my first blue eggs (very cool!) the first part of November. That day, there were 2 blue eggs. Next day there was 1 blue egg. Then for the next couple months, it was 1 blue egg every other day or so, from the 3 chickens. Now, it's been 3...
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    Where to find an element for homemade watering system

    As requested, pics of my homemade waterer. Simple to make. Just make sure the bottom of the holes you cut in the side of the bucket come are higher than the height of the holes your drill in the neck of the water jug. Otherwise, the water will just run out. You need enough depth in the bucket...
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    Whats the weirdest thing your chickens have eaten or tried to eat??

    I threw in a filletted fish carcass and they tore it apart. Bones and all. Next time I went fishing I caught a big ugly carp and I threw it in there and they ate the whole thing. Then, I got an idea - I made a cage out of 1/4" welded wire and hung it about 2 feet off the ground in their pen...
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    Where to find an element for homemade watering system

    I made a watering system this summer from a 5-gallon bucket and a 5-gallon water cooler jug. Drilled holes in the neck, cut 4 larger round holes 2" up from the bottom of the bucket, evenly spaced. Turn the water cooler jug upside down in the bucket. Works awesome. Except when it freezes...
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    Who's laying and who's not?

    What I meant to include was, does anyone have any neat ways to figure out which ones are laying and which ones aren't?
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    Who's laying and who's not?

    I get 4 to 6 a day from 11 hens. I used to get 8-9 a day from these same hens. I don't know why they've slowed down. About 8 of the hens are 3 years old and the rest are 2 years old. I'd like to figure out which ones are laying and if there are any that are not laying period and maybe cull them...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I get 4 to 6 a day from 11 hens. I used to get 8-9 a day from these same hens. I don't know why they've slowed down. About 8 of the hens are 3 years old and the rest are 2 years old. I'd like to figure out which ones are laying and if there are any that are not laying period and maybe cull...
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