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    trim

    can you trim the spurs on a rooster????
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    how to stop an attacking roaster

    Can someone tell me how to get a roast to stop attacking me and anyone else that comes around him. I only have one an 8 hens. I put him by himself yesterday. I would like to keep him but can't trust him. I always have to keep an eye on him. He is a maran cuckoo. I keep him because of the...
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    broody

    If you have a hen that just started laying after raising little ones only lays for two weeks an then goes broody again, Is this normal??? Her sisters have not gone broody at all. I put eggs under her an will wait an see what happens. If a person was wanting eggs this hen would not be one of...
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    What are we???????

    picked these up to put under a hen they said they were assorted chicks? thank you
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    broody

    I have a hen that went broody an she set on the eggs until about 18 days an then a dog got into the nest when she took a break an eat the eggs. I put chicks under her an she took them. How long will it be before she starts to lay again? How old will the chicks have to be? She is a mother to them...
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    egg

    I have a maran that has been laying for about two months an. Scene she has started the eggs have had a spot of blood in them Now I know this won't hurt anything but I just want to know if their is anything I can do to stop this? The other hens (8) don't have this problem. The shell is very rough...
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    what kind??????

    ordered eggs last year an I got a splash and one that is pictured an the rest were normal cuckoos some were dark. I keep this guy because I kind of took to him. I have a regular cuckoo marked roo. I really like the dark color eggs. I think that the person that I got them from was mixing them up.
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    what kind??????

    what kind of maran is this?
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    eggs?

    I have a cukoo maran that lays a very dark egg but it looks like it has frost on it is their something wrong with the eggs? I have not eaten any because of this. I have put them in the trash. the inside looks OK but the frosted dark color out side kind of turns my taste. The shell is real rough...
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    Bad girls got caught running around, Animal Police stopped by today..

    The neighbor is probably one that thinks that eggs come form a store an not form a chicken. I just love it when city people move out an can't stand any of the country smells or noise...
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    Bad girls got caught running around, Animal Police stopped by today..

    What part of WV do you live in? If I could vote it would be to put in as pig pen along with the rooster!
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    egg eating

    how to stop a egg eater? I have looked in the forms but found nothing on how too. What has people done to stop this bad habit? Are their some kind of tricks you do? I think I have a egg eater.
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    egg????

    Has anyone ever had a hen lay her first egg (very small) then one regular small egg an has not layed any for 3 days? The other chickens do not miss like this after they first start laying. Just wanted to know if this has happened to any one else?
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    laying eggs

    I know this has been addressed over an over but how do you get a hen to lay in the nest box? this is only her 2nd egg first off of the roost then today right in the middle of the chicken coop. I had another one that started laying off of the roost but only once never again went into the nest...
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    Marans

    I have hens that are 25 1/2 weeks old an they still are not laying? They look like they should be but no eggs. Is this normal to go this long. I have a few leghorns that have been laying for a while an they are the same age. I can't wait till I see the real dark eggs in the hen house.
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    do hens practice singing the "egg song"?

    my hens have a what I call a misfire song same as egg lay song but no egg for awhile.
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    laying

    chickens just started to lay (well one anyway) trouble is she won't lay in a nest. I have the nest boxes on the side of the building the kind that you can get to from the outside. lays in corner an from the roost to the floor. I put golf balls in the nests but no go. How do you get them to lay...
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    pigeons?

    I think he is wanting to give them away because he can't get around like he use too. He has trumpeters too. I don't know how many of them he has in that house an he has homers (meat kind) he has had them scene he was a boy. All are in different coops. I hate to see him have to just kill them or...
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    pigeons?

    I live in charleston wv an a friend of mine has utility kings. He is 82 two years young an wants to get ride of them. He has around 100. Does anyone know or if you want them please let me know. He said the name on them is 1919 utility kings...
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    How long for eggs after 1st breeding?

    Mine are not laying yet an I seen what love my chickies seen. Dose this mean that they will start laying now or what?
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