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    Singing to her eggs...

    Sophie, our rescue hen, has gone broody. She's been in the nest box for almost a week, singing to her eggs. That's the only way I can describe it. It's a distinct noise she makes when she is checking over the clutch. These are going to be interesting chicks. Our roo is a Showgirl, and we're...
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    Does your chicken tolerate diapers?

    I have tried putting one on Clarisse, our friendly chicken who wants to be a house pet, and it's like she suddenly has grown extra wings and feet. just getting it under her keel was a two-person chore, and getting it fastened...yikes. I managed to get it on her, and she managed to peck and pull...
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    My rooster quartet!

    I had an absolute Hallelujah Chorus break out at the run, this afternoon. They have only learned to crow, this week, still being youngsters. I headed out to see who was crowing, and it was ALL FOUR of my four-month-old Showgirl and silkie roos. One would crow, then another, until they had worked...
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    Nasty neck injury from attack -- what to do?

    Payback is a grump, they say. I have some rescue chickens, two of whom come from feral stock, though they were hand-raised by a friend's teenaged daughter. They're great with humans, but very bad with other chickens. I separated one a long while back because she was being vicious with the...
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    Has anyone shipped chickens to new owners?

    I have three gorgeous 4-month old Showgirl roos that I can't keep, and I'm thinking of offering them to folks out of the area, since there has been no interest on the local chicken boards. My guys are gorgeous, and would make great breeding stock, but there are limits on what we can have in my...
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    He's crowing in the rain...

    Smart Aleck is my 3+ month old silkie roo, and has been experimenting with weird sounds for a few weeks. In the big storm, yesterday, he showed no inclination to come in out of the rain. Just sat there posing, on top of the little shelter over the coop entry. Then all of a sudden, he puffed up...
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    Eggs in the mud

    I have a Polish who has only just started to lay. The first three eggs were in one of the nest boxes, then the Big Storm hit. The last two have been laying out in the mud, like she just plopped them there. Do you think she's disoriented? The nest boxes are outside, but the inside is sheltered...
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    Blue and green eggs from the same chicken!

    They say that Easter-eggers only lay one color, but I've got one that does two and a half colors! I know it's from the same chicken, my Easter-egger Cupcake, because she's the only EE I have! But so far, I've gotten blue eggs, green eggs, and green with brown speckles. It's always an...
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    Hiding roosters?

    I've got a very sweet little young silkie roo who was raised up from an egg, but I'm not allowed roosters where I am. Has anyone had any luck with hiding roosters? I've heard of folks taking them in the house at night, or putting them in lightproof boxes to keep them from crowing in the morning...
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    Dominance behavior in month olds?

    I have showgirl and silkie chicks, and am already getting some serious dominance type displays. The silkie I call "Smart Aleck" is starting to go bump chests with some of the other chicks and is becoming very dominant. I think he's a little roo, because this guy has Attitude. But the showgirls...
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    Endings and beginnings

    I lost a Showgirl chick the day before yesterday. Failure to thrive. Poor little thing just got weaker and weaker, until she didn't wake up. So sad... And on the same day, my Dominique pullet laid her first egg! It was a MONSTER, utterly huge, and I bet it's a double yolker. Yesterday, she...
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    Showgirl chick small and seemingly distressed

    It's part of the clutch of chicks I hatched from fertilized eggs. The other six, at 2 1/2 weeks, are bulking up and doing fine. This baby started showing up as undersized as of last week, and chirps a lot. Unless it's being held, it's chirping most the time, which I take as a sign of distress...
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    No sense to get out of the rain

    The Big Storm came in last night, and my teenaged pullets (17 weeks) are huddling in the rain by the fence. It's not that they don't have a place to get out of the rain. I have a couple of sheltered nest boxes, and made an A-frame coop out of an old road barricade with boards and perches inside...
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    Flying showgirl chicks at 8 days!! Eep!

    So I go out to the coop and find an 8-day-old showgirl chick wandering outside the enclosed run. Say huh? I start looking for a hole in the mesh when it FLIES to the top of the small-mesh netting and goes through the chain link, back into the run! I am almost beside myself. I enter the coop run...
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    Okay, I just have to brag about my fluffbundles!

    My two broodies have hatched out silkies and showgirls, and are now busy introducing them to the world. So I thought I'd introduce them to you, since they're such adorable little fluffies. They are five days old, now. This is Juanita's brood: two silkies and four showgirls. And this is...
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    Hens with silkies, showgirls--as outside chicks?

    My two broody hens have hatched some silkies and showgirls from eggs, and are taking them roving around the big run, scratching for bugs in the compost, etc. But now they are predicting rain for next week. Not wanting my precious babies to get chilled, I'm wondering if I should shut them inside...
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    Can you feather-sex silkies? Anyone tried?

    I've got three silkie chicks that I'm trying to feather-sex. I checked them at two and three days, and I swear I have two boys and a girl. At least the wing primaries look longer on one than on the other two. Has anyone even thought of trying feather-sexing? If you have, did they turn out the...
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    Egg-cited! Hatch due this weekend, but I'm out of town :-(

    Silly me, I thought that my big Civil War event was the weekend after this, sigh. But with hatching due Saturday, I suspect my broodies (the clutch is divided between the two of them) will be fine until I get back on Sunday evening. I just worry if anybody pips early. But I've got a 48-hour...
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    Okay to put broodies together?

    In less than a week, my two broody hens will each have chicks, from the same batch of mail-order eggs. Or at least I hope... The question is if it's okay to confine both mama hens together, since they will both be getting chicks at the same time. Will they be okay, or will there be contention...
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    I found what happened to the missing egg...

    I've got two broody hens who are incubating fertilized eggs. Juanita, my trooper broody, has been doing just fine with the bulk of the eggs. Sophie is a first-timer, and had three of the eggs until about a week ago. Then one of the eggs vanished. It would have been about ten days old. Today, I...
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