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  1. MyFrancesca

    Chicken leaves for couple days then returns...sounds like a chirping bird?

    A month back my chicken disappeared for 2 days and then to my surprise she reappeared in the morning 2 days later. Last week she wasn't in the coop on Wednesday but returned Thursday morning. She left during the day Thursday after she ate and laid an egg then Saturday, at 12:30am I was woken...
  2. MyFrancesca

    How to keep people away from our chickens?!

    We are city chicken owners. We have a double lot. We have the lot our house is in which has a 4 foot chain link fenced in back yard. The second lot is directly behind our backyard, connected by a gate doorway (can only access the 2nd yard by going thru our back yard connected to the house)...
  3. MyFrancesca

    Will clipping wings keep chickens in 4 foot chain link fence?

    Yet again we have the neighborhood chasing our chickens through the front yard. 2 days in a row we have come outside to grown adults running around the yard, chasing chickens..."Did you know there are chickens in your yard?" Yes...we know. I'm glad you find it necessary to come into our yard...
  4. MyFrancesca

    Red sex link had egg stuck in vent - keeps laying soft eggs

    My red sex link was puffed up, walking slow, had yellow discharge coming from her vent and wasn't interested in eating. I read online it was possibly an egg or soft shelled egg stuff. I put on some gloves and braved the idea of doing things to my chicken I never imagined. Quickly I realized...
  5. MyFrancesca

    HELP!!! Grey wattles/combs/faces and black coffee grind poop (pics)

    I have been searching the internet for 3 days. I have found NOTHING so far that can tell me what in the world is going on with my chickens. First, their faces look dirty. Like they dipped them in a dust pan and it stuck to their wattles, combs and faces. Today I found their poop looks...
  6. MyFrancesca

    How do I treat mites safely around bee hives?

    There is SO much conflicting information, I am confused at this point. Currently I use food grade DE in the coop and on the roosts. My lady's waddles are turning dingy grey and I assume this is some type of mite...per what I have read. They were wormed sort of blindly (splash of fellow...
  7. MyFrancesca

    Dirty wattles?

    Husband pointed out the hens wattles are rather dirty. They free range and dirt bathe a lot out in the garden so I assume it's just dirt. Some seem more dirty than others. They have not seen winter yet so it's definitely not frost bite. I found the link below and the coloring is similar to...
  8. MyFrancesca

    Rehoming 2 roosters and introducing 2 new hens 2 nights before we go away for a night?

    We (luckily) found a farm that wants our two 3 month old roosters. I was honsetly shocked. However, we live in city limits and can't have them here so they need a new place to live. I plan on replacing them with 2-3 silver lace wyandottes from a local farm. Since the roosters are being...
  9. MyFrancesca

    SHE CAME HOME!!! One of my chickens are missing. :(

    We dove into chicken raising in March of this year full speed ahead. Although we planned to incubate and hatch our own eggs for my son's kindergarten class, I couldn't help but scoop up 6 beautiful chicks from TSC. In the end (after one loss and one replacement and one rooster give-away) we...
  10. MyFrancesca

    Is this their coloring?

    We hatched 4 eggs from a coworker for my son's K-class. They are 11 weeks now so the color they are is what they're staying, right? The roo was an Ameracauna and the hens were Easter Eggers, Australorp, Ameracauna and Barred Rock. One of the chicks looks like a BR cross and the 3 others are...
  11. MyFrancesca

    5 squatting chickens, 2 soft eggs, 1 egg layer and a partridge not in our pear tree...

    So 7/24 my son and his friend found an egg in the coop. Wahoo! First eggs. Then after searching the yard, they found a soft, pong-size egg in the garden. That evening my husband found another soft pong-size egg in a different area of the yard. The ladies had started squatting about 1-2...
  12. MyFrancesca

    Will I always have 2 flocks?

    I couldn't resist in March and brought home 6 chicks from TSC...knowing we were going to be hatching eggs in my son's class in April. We ended up with 5 total hens, which are my ladies. We ended up hatching 4 chicks for my son's class. There is a 2 month age gap between them. The chicks...
  13. MyFrancesca

    4 month old sex links squatting?

    I've read chickens begin laying aronud 5-6 months of age. I've read when they starting coming to you and squatting they will begin laying soon. Yesterday was out of the ordinary for my chickens. They did not want to be out back alone. They hopped the fence several times and came to the garage...
  14. MyFrancesca

    Kindergartener's eggs are hatching!

    I bought a mini advance brinsea to hatch eggs in my son's classroom. We had 7 but 3 were duds. Today is hatching day! The teacher said one hatched over night and one is pipping thru the egg. I'm going to check it on lunch and see if the hatched one is fluffy or not yet. If it is fluffy...
  15. MyFrancesca

    3 Week Australorp rooster Akron, OH

    We bought 6 chicks from TSC last weekend. 1 didn't make it so we replace it this weekend. The new chick is half the size of the others and this rooster won't stop pecking her! I feel so horrible for the little tike. But since we're in city limits we can't have a rooster anyway...we need to...
  16. MyFrancesca

    HELP! Brinsea Mini Advance won't turn on!!!!

    When I got home after shopping I checked on the incubator and to my surprise it's completely off. It shutdown in the middle of the night or this morning sometime and now the eggs have been without heat for quite awhile. I tried to contact Brinsea but of course they won't answer right now...
  17. MyFrancesca

    We need hinged nesting box plans

    We have a shipping crate we're turning into a coop. I want an attached nesting box with a hinged top to buikld onto the side. Anyone have plans, measurements or know of a website where we can acquire plans to do this? I'm afraid if we don't have a guide to follow, we might end up with a giant...
  18. MyFrancesca

    1 of 7 eggs good? :(

    We're going to let my son's kindergarten class hatch some chickies for our backyard pleasure. I purchased the Brinsea Mini Advance so it does everything for me (turning, humidity level, temp regulation). We decided to give it a trial run and had a coworker collect some eggs for us. She...
  19. MyFrancesca

    Shipping Crate for Chicken Coop - Akron, Oh

    I'm sorry if this isn't in the correct forum. I'm unable to post this to the buy, sell, trade forum and I wanted to get this out there for anyone who may be looking for a coop! I just bought a large shipping crate from a local machine shop in Akron, Ohio that is encolosed on all sides except...
  20. MyFrancesca

    Am I doomed for cockerels?

    We're hatching our own eggs from a coworker which are cross-breeds...rooster one breed and 4 types of hens. We just want some backyard chickens for eggs so we don't care what they are. However, while going thru online readings, I found someone's post that said if the rooster is a Americauna...
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