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    "Red Hens"

    Can anyone tells us what breed these chicks are? They are 4 weeks old! Tractor supply said they could be RIR, Red sexlinks/ red stars, or NH...
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    BLRW & GL

    These are our 5 week old chicks can anyone tell what gender they are yet? If so explain your reasons!!! :)
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    Maple Tappers

    Anyone have any tips for a newbie maple tapper??? We have 5 maple trees on our property, 2 sugar maples, 2 red maples, and 1 silver maple. 4/5 trees have a diameter over 21'' so they have 2 taps in them... We tapped all but one 2 days ago and our silver and sugar maple have given us a gallon of...
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    Wobbling Eggs Stopped

    It's day 22 and our 3 wobbling eggs have piratically stopped!!! They started wobbling Friday evening and were wobbling often. We have yet to hear any peeping too. Is it possible that the decrease in wobbling is them resting and getting ready to pip? Do they rest before piping or do they rest...
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    January Thaw

    Up here in Pittsburgh Pa, most of December consisted of lots and lots of rain then followed by a late December freeze... This being said with the warm weather we are about to get and the snow melt happening, I think we are going to fix up the run so it doesn't get as muddy. Things we wanna do...
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    Post 300!!!

    Once this is the random ramblings... I thought i'd post my 300th post here! I dont know how some people have 25,000+
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    New Hatcher...Please Help

    We are just starting our second batch of eggs, we put them in the incubator at 9:00 a.m. and we have some questions that have been getting mixed answers on. Our first hatch didn't go well we didn't have any hatch so we want to get this right this time because we really want to have some Maran...
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    Guess The Layer!!!

    Can anyone guess the breed? This is from my backyard flock!!!
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    Day 21!!!

    Its day 21 for us! I have no idea on what to expect! We have 4 eggs that we candled on day 16 and didn't see any movement so, I kinda lost hope but, we kept them in for the remaining days. Earlier today my fiancee thought she saw some wobbling but who knows.... I hope she's not going to get her...
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    Egg Tracker!

    Hey Guys I've been looking at all your chicken trackers and decided to make one for our backyard flock! Now it might be a little excessive for our 5 chickens but it gives me something to do at night! If you guys wanna take a look send me an message and I can email you my tracker... Tell me what...
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    Buff Orpington Egg Color

    What color/shade do orpingtons lay? The little research I've done I thought it was light brown. Our orpington Darla just started laying a week ago and her eggs are practically white... Some of them have a slight shade of tan. In my research I found that white egg layers have a white skin patch...
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    SHE FINALLY LAID!!!!

    We got our first egg from our welsummer today! Was not expecting it at all! After losing most of our hope in her laying... we go out to collect eggs and we had 4 in our nesting box!!! We are hoping that this is not going to be the only egg we get for a while now...
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    3 Hens a Laying

    All three of our chickens we got in August are all finally laying!!! Here's Peggy she start laying on November 10th since then we have gotten 23 eggs from her alone! She just got off a 12 day laying spree hahah This is GG she laid her first egg this morning! We are sooo proud of her! It's...
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    Pullet or Hen

    So here's our welsummer. We got her back in October and when we got her we thought she might have been broody. After posting some pictures of her and and asking some question we determined that she was not broody and might be molting. Well two months later we have not seen any change in her...
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    Update on my girls!

    Well our Barred rock has been laying for almost 3 weeks and we have gotten a total of 18 eggs from her in the past 20 days!! She's been laying everyday around 9:30! In the past week our orpington and black sex link have started squatting so we should hopefully see eggs from them in the next...
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    New Pullet

    We got a new pullet today! We went thinking we were going to get a orpington, rir, or barred rock but ended up getting a australorp! She came right up to my fiancee and jumped on her thigh... Let just say she pick herself out... Soooo we brought her home and have her in a cage that is in our...
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    Mature Black Sex-LInks

    Does anyone have any pictures of black sex-links that have just started laying??? Our black sex-link is the same age as our barred rock seen in this form: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/719080/is-she-getting-close However she hasn't shown much in waddle development just a big fluffy butt...
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    Welsummer still hasn't layed

    We have this welsummer and well we are pretty sure she's in a molt right now. It's not a hard molt but she's losing a decent number of feathers daily. Her tail feathers also look pretty mangy. My question is when a hen goes through a molt does her pubis bone narrow??? I've been trying to find...
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    Is she getting close???

    I posted a picture of Peggy a few weeks ago and since then we've seen some changes! What do you guys think? Peggy 2 weeks ago Peggy as of today
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    What breed and gender

    I put this in another from because I didn't realize this one was here... I am hoping to get some more info.... What do you guys think rooster or hen? This is pumpkin which was sold to us as a "hen". The lady told us she was born in april and was said to be a RIR x Welsummer mix... I would...
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