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    Feather Not Coming Back After Winter Molt

    In early 2014, we got six Golden Comets. As most of you know, they are hybrids bred for lots of egg production. They have turned out to be some of the best chickens we've ever had and not only from the egg production standpoint. They are good natured, with us and each other. We wondered about...
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    Sudden Aggression By Rooster to One Hen

    Some odd stuff going on here. Max, our Black Australorpe rooster, has suddenly started being aggressive with one of our youngest hens, Ebony. In fact, this BSL hen was the product of Max and our Buff Orp, Bea, and is barely a year old. Both Ebony and her sister Lacey have been some of Max's...
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    Broody-Raised Sex Links at 8 Weeks

    Here are our two Broody-Raised Sex Links at 8 weeks. The nearer is Lacey, for her breast coloring, and the other is Two (no official name yet but we called her Chick 2 for a while). Some of the lastest developments are that they are roosting with the flock now. For a long time, Momma Bea nested...
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    Chickens as Mousers

    I've seen chickens get mice a few times with our two flocks but was never able to see it happen and have my camera close when it did. This is Big Rock (aka Crooked-Comb when she is being obnoxious), moments after catching a rodent. It was still marginally alive at this point but Big Rock was...
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    Vernacular Assistance

    Nube question. At what point do you stop calling them "chicks" and start calling them "cockerel" or "pullet?" At the point where you can sex them?Or is there an inbetween word?
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    Question: Egg Size vs Chick Size

    The bigger of our two pullets stay consistently bigger than her sis and came from a much larger egg. Is this a correlated fact in the chicken world? I guess a bigger egg can hold a bigger chick but does the bigger chick stay bigger?
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    Question: Hand Raised vs Broody Raised?

    Does anyone who has experienced both hand raised (no momma hen) and broody hen raised have any perspective on the end results? Have you seen any noteworthy differences in the grown chickens... good or bad? We hand raised a few and they were very tame, if not affectionate. None of our current...
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    At Seven Weeks...

    Our two broody-raised chicks (pullets) have reached 7 weeks. Momma is starting to spurn them and, in fact, today laid her first egg since she started setting on 27 June. That's a bit over two months which goes along with what I have read. They still get scared and run to her but she no longer...
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    Sex Check- 5 Weeks

    Here they are at a few days past 5 weeks. Chick 1 has feathered out nicely and is getting some interesting markings on her breast. Chick 2 is finally feathering out and catching up in size. Both are very active and still sleeping with Momma Bea in the nest box where they were hatched... and it's...
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    Sexing these 4-Week Old Chix

    Here are our now just over one month old chicks. One is an Australorpe/Buff Orpington mix (we call it Chick1 currently)and the other is Australorpe/Barred Rock (Chick2). We are reasonably certain Chick2 the Aus/Barred mix. Chick 2 is noticably smaller than Chick1. Neither had white on their...
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    Dry Feed Good- Wet Feed YUMMY!

    Do your chicken like their mash wet like ours do? We keep some separate feed out for the layers in a place that our chicks cannot reach. When it rains and gets the feed wet, the chickens loved it. We now regularly wet the feed for them and they run for it when they us coming with "the pan." No...
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    Three Week Old Buff/Austra Mix, Austra/Barred Rock Mix

    Here they are at a bit over three weeks. Growing like weeds and Momma Bea still is taking very good care of them. Rest of flock very deferential and they are happy chicks. No idea s to sex yeat (can any of you tell). The one that appears to be the Buff/Austalorpe mix is larger and has more tail...
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    How Much Layer feed to Hurt Chicks

    Our two "surprise" chicks are integrating will with the flock. Surprising how deferential adult birds can be with chicks. If any of the hens get a grasshopper, it's like a chicken demolition derby until the original chicken gets the 'hopper down or someone gets it away. If a chick gets one, they...
  14. New Flockman

    Candling and Broodyness Questions

    I'm not clear on how much light is needed to candle an egg. Can someone name some product names or performance criteria for for lights they know work on brown eggs? I tried to candle the three eggs Bea was setting (is it "setting" or "sitting" ?), which was about 10 days into her set (sit). All...
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    Broody Buff Orp Hen Hatches Two Chicks (so far)

    Our lead hen, Aunt Bea, just hatched (mere hours ago) two chicks. Daddy is a Black Austalorpe Roo named Max. We are so proud! She started setting an egg of her own on 23 June. A couple of days later we added two (presumably fertile) eggs from our Barred Rock hens, Big Rock and Little Rock...
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    Broody Buff Orpington Setting Three Eggs

    Our lead hen, a Buff named Aunt Bea, went broody about 10 days ago and is setting three eggs... one of her own and two from some of the other hens. We have a roo, who regularly mates all the hens (there are five), but we don't really know if the eggs are fertile. My first question is, can we...
  17. New Flockman

    Introduction Difficulties

    We recently introduced four new hens to our now-reduced flock of three; two Australorpes, a hen and a Rooster, and one Buff Orpington hen. We had two other Buff Orps, but behavior issues (constant "Chicken Runs") gradually attritted them via freezer therapy. The Rooster, Max, is magnificent in...
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    Preferential Mating Behavior

    Our Australorp roo, Max, prefers mating with our only Australorp hen, Olive, over the three other hens... all Buff Orpingtons. All the hens are the same age, about nine months, and two are laying. He's mated at least three of the four that we know of but will jump Olive five times for every time...
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    Laying Broken Eggs...Egg Drop Syndrome OR??

    We have two Rhode Island Red hens a bit over two years old. Both did their first molts over winter. At that time we had trouble with thin shelled eggs, which I gather is common during the molt. Lately, we've been getting thinnish-shelled eggs that are white and really have a rough surface. This...
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    Molting Chicken Lays- Non-Molting One Suddenly Doesn't

    One of our two Rhode Island Reds (both almost 2 years old) has definitely molted. Poor Phoebe is like Pigpen in Peanuts.... but instead of dirt, feathers fly wherever she goes. She is so utterly disheveled and completely cranky but, oddly, still a fairly regular egglayer. The eggs are kind of...
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