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  1. BlindLemonChicken

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Ugh. Been there. Don’t envy you. :hugs
  2. BlindLemonChicken

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I heard something interesting today—maybe someone else can speak to this but I have no experience with it personally except the two night time experiments I’ve done. A flock of wild turkeys hangs out near my mom’s place and she says the males roost lower in the trees than the hens—presumably to...
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    Odd Rooster Behavior

    That’s not a bad ratio. I’ve raised some naughty roosters accidentally. Fortunately they all live with my mom now and she has a high tolerance for nonsense. I do not. My last naughty boy became someone’s dinner and now that I have a good rooster it makes a world of difference for me and the hens
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    Do most/all layers, who are allowed to free range, eventually relapse to egg-hiding?

    I have only had egg-hiding be an issue when I had a free range chicken trying to brood. Currently my free range flock lays in their nesting box or in a trough in the barn. It’s possible they’re hiding something somewhere I haven’t found but they lay different colored eggs so I’m fairly confident...
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    any idea what breed she is? she is 8 years old.

    I agree-looks like a brown leghorn
  6. BlindLemonChicken

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

  7. BlindLemonChicken

    MysteryChicken's, Flock.

    Ugh that would make me uptight.
  8. BlindLemonChicken

    8 week Speckled Sussex - Hen or Roo

    Keep us posted! Hopefully I’m wrong haha
  9. BlindLemonChicken

    8 week Speckled Sussex - Hen or Roo

    That coloring is enough for me to vote cockerel. And then the big thick shanks. Add in the comb and he’s all dude.
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    Im a bit sad

    It is easy to worry about chickens being cold but I think it will help you to think about their little down jackets. They sit on their feet to keep them warm, puff up their feathers to creat a nice insulated bubble around their bodies, then tuck their heads under their wings. Nice and toasty...
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    Landrace project F1 chicks!!!

    He is from a landrace my friends accidentally created—not one that is known/documented. They call them “apocalypse chickens” because they are hardy and roost in trees instead of a coop. They are a few hours south of me so same climate/vegetation, etc. I know they have EEs and game fowl of some...
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    Chickens in nature

    I misread that as she was imitating a hawk and I thought “that poor confused woman and that poor dying hawk” 😆 Then I realized she was imitating the rooster and it all made sense. 🤦‍♀️
  13. BlindLemonChicken

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Your chicken needs to lay off the sauce 😆
  14. BlindLemonChicken

    Landrace project F1 chicks!!!

    Just found this thread. Very interesting stuff! Are you not incorporating the birchen into the landrace project because it has too much white for free ranging or is it something else? I might have missed it. I have an almost completely white landrace rooster and I plan on letting him make as...
  15. BlindLemonChicken

    What breed of chicken is this?

    That was my first thought but that is too much foot floof even for a Maran. Plus I can’t quite tell what color the feet are. So more likely a Cochin
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    Odd Rooster Behavior

    There is probably a long answer to this and someone with more rooster experience will provide it but a rooster will attack anything he thinks is a threat. His being friendly with you is a good sign he thinks people are chickens or he is a people. Was he hand-raised by any chance? As far as the...
  17. BlindLemonChicken

    Wing It Ranch

    That’s all we can say. Mine is equally hapless. A few weeks ago he locked all the chickens OUT of the coop instead of in. 🤦‍♀️
  18. BlindLemonChicken

    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    Here’s one way to think of it: where I live NOT free-ranging is like throwing away food and, consequently, money. I started this flock with three free chickens then spent roughly $20/pullet on ten pullets. I spend $20 on feed every month. With a flock this size kept in a run I was spending $28...
  19. BlindLemonChicken

    Fresh perspective on camouflage for free-ranging chickens

    You think they’ll leave me some grass seed!? 😆 It would be nice not to have a swath of weeds there next spring
  20. BlindLemonChicken

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I might know a guy…
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