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    Artificial Lights v/s None During Winter for Egg Production Poll

    I used to keep things natural, but we have shorter days in the south. One year we had broody hens all summer, spread out molting in the fall, pullets who hadn't started laying by fall... Well pretty much the only consistent eggs we got that year were in the spring. I got some mellow lights -...
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    Resuming Light during Molt

    Thank you @FrostRanger and @Ridgerunner ! :hugs
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    Murderous chickens attack & kill crow - is this normal?

    I've seen some of my flock chase off crows before... We had one particularly outgoing crow who my mom trained to come for eggs (in the people yard, it was the dirty eggs), kinda crazy seeing them pick up a whole egg in their beak and fly off. Anyway, it was a hot dry spell and the crow kept...
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    Resuming Light during Molt

    Oops, guess I didn't specify the light is for the others who already molted quickly. But the whole main coop will be affected. Some of my older girls and one mixed breed take their sweet time. Cocomo took 4 months last year... Looked like she had spots with new dark and old light chocolate...
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    Resuming Light during Molt

    Short version: Would turning the lights back on mid-molt interfere with molt finishing? Backstory: I provide light during winter but allow the hens to rest in fall. That way they can molt. This year I'm in a bit of a hurry, so I want to turn the lights back on sooner. Some of my older hens are...
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    What do we think about this guy hatching 100's of supermarket eggs for likes on Youtube?

    If there was a Hatching Police, we could call them on a lot of our members for having too many incubators or like me - hatching out of spring season. Maybe it's a division of the Chicken Math Agency aka CMA. 🕵️‍♀️ ... Just teasing! 🤪
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    Things you wish you could say

    Right! And some who carry one in their pocket are perfectly okay, when pressed, with dispensing with some aspects of the constitution in favor of only the bits they like. They ignore the conditions the founding fathers were trying to prevent from repeating even while it's happening in front of...
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    Things you wish you could say

    Nope. But I have an Aussie mum so I can ask her what things like that are... Sounds weird. My uncle recently came over for a visit and it was so funny walking around Publix with him trying to find suitable "Crisps". Of course he wasn't walking but driving the motorized buggy for those mobility...
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    First Winter

    Do be careful because a bale with mold growing inside generates heat and they've been known to spontaneously combust. A lot of livestock barn fires started that way until farmers spread the wisdom of separate buildings for hay storage, and only kept soon-to-feed hay in lofts and tack rooms. It...
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    Over researched and made myself anxious about coccidiosis

    Sounds great! Excellent planning for a first time chick mom! Yep, okay, that's it. The Sav a Chick is an electrolyte supplement, it's supposed to be used for short periods not as their constant water. So they have too much salt, that's making them thirsty, then they drink more water and wind...
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    Over researched and made myself anxious about coccidiosis

    Do you mean because of the watery poo? That's most likely to be caused by getting too hot. Does their brooder have a sufficiently cool end now that they're a little older and starting to get their wing feathers in?
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    Over researched and made myself anxious about coccidiosis

    Most people don't have serious issues with it. Those of us who do tend to have environmental circumstances, such as a very wet climate. Some strains can be more aggressive and/or more subtle. I also struggled with well water being a source of contamination... Then I tried buying spring water...
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    Parenthood Thread

    I don't have any experience, but if it were me I would consider it completely reasonable to just get more convenient shoes to wear for the rest of your pregnancy. After all, they all wear out soon enough anyway. My mother's back prevents her from bending over much, so she exclusively wears...
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    Baby chicks pecking walls and breaking ends off beaks

    I'm having trouble imagining chicks being able to damage their beaks on cardboard. They're pretty resilient things, and cardboard is easy for them to destroy (mine have). One thing I'm thinking is, since it sounds like you didn't have the chicks for the first week of their life, perhaps the...
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    Broody Crushed Chicks

    Thank you for sharing your experiences. 🤗 Good news! The egg hatched this afternoon! It was zipping so slowly all morning, seemed tired. I finally decided to help, so picked off some eggshell in the line. *Crack* there's a chick kicked out into my hands. It seemed really large for its egg. I...
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    Broody Crushed Chicks

    I just wanted to vent, more than anything. Yesterday we discovered 5 newly hatched chicks crushed by the broody hen. I can't understand why she did this 😭 She had experience, not necessarily our best broody but a decent one. We found one alive who is doing well under a plate heater now. We had...
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    Give me the truth about roosters

    Op, I see the same dominance behavior in my current roo. He checks most of the temperament boxes so I'm disappointed to see him marking specific hens for harassment. This is a breeding project so I'm always changing the roos, and his paternal line were all very sweet and mild. But this...
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    The gene-spliced breeds are not good backyard chickens

    It is false to call them gene-spliced or transgenic. They are simple hybrids, crossing two breeds in physical mating conditions. It is widely known the layer hybrids are prone to health problems. The production of eggs without ceasing is hard on the body the same way a mammal constantly...
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    FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

    permies ?
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    Is anyone working on a Chocolate Mottled Leghorn project?

    He has dark shanks... Orps are supposed to have white shanks. With the Leghorns having yellow, the offspring should be white or yellow, not dark... ? So I happened to mix Leghorns with English Orps in the past. They were not the goal but a building block to get larger eggs and faster growth in...
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