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  1. Chicken Lil

    Need to find good home in central IL for my hens

    Due to family problems I have to move into an apartment. It is heartbreaking for me to have to give up my sweet hens, but I want to find a home where they won't be culled. I do not want anything for them, just the assurance that they will be cared for. There are six of them, all between 3 & 4...
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    City of Princeton, IL pulls a FAST one.. . want opinions and ideas!

    Three years ago I checked the ordinance for my town, Princeton IL, and NOTHING in the city codes prohibited having chickens in town. At the time the planning & zoning administrator said that since it wasn't expressly prohibited we could have are hens. Great, thought ok, and have had my hens...
  3. Chicken Lil

    hen lethargic with shriveled comb

    Hi all, Maybe you folks can help. I have 10 hens, all are doing well but one of my leghorns is really not looking good. Started about a month ago, she went into a full molt. About that time her once thick, red comb started to slowly shrivel up, almost like she was dehydrated. It has been...
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    Law on my side, but neighbors keep calling the police!!! Long rant

    I live in a small sub division in Princeton, IL, population 5,000. Our ordinance regarding poultry is very clear. All poultry allowed, as long as they are confined to your own property. Our lot is about 1/4 acre, and we have 10 hens. Because I did not want a rooster disturbing anyone I choose...
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    Prayers for Students at Northern Illinois University

    My DD, who goes to NIU, just called to tell me that two of the fraternities on NIU Fraternity row are on fire. It is really bad, and at least two helicoptors have medivaced people out. NIU is the school that had the shooting on Valentines day 2008, and now this. My DD is waiting to find out...
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    An egg eater in my flock

    I have a flock of 2 leghorns, 2 SL wyndotes, 2 GL wyndottes, and 2 silkies. My silkies are each brooding on several eggs at this time. Last week I found a broken and half eaten egg in one of my nesting boxes. Than this morning one of my silkies nests had been badly disturbed, an egg eaten, and...
  7. Chicken Lil

    not enough nesting boxes?

    Okay I have two silkies each happily sitting on seven eggs. However, I only have two nesting boxes, and my other girls are ticked that they don't have a place to lay their eggs. I put in a third nesting box with some fake eggs, so I'm hoping the others get the hint. Somehow I thought two...
  8. Chicken Lil

    ex husband- rant

    Okay, so I am a fool, but I actually believed he wasn't making much money. Hah! Talk about naive!! We had a bitter divorce 10 years ago this month. It was a total pain, because he did not want me to have my half of anything. FYI, I worked full time during our marriage, and made the same...
  9. Chicken Lil

    how much for Silkie hens

    I have decided to sell my two Partridge Silkie Hens, and as I have never sold any chickens before I'm not sure what they are worth or the easiest way to sell them. They are both ten months old, very poofy, and have been hand raised. They each lay 4-5 eggs a week, and they go broody ever three...
  10. Chicken Lil

    hen w/ chick behavior question

    Okay, be patient with me, I have never seen a hen raise chicks so I don't know what normal should be. I had two broody hens, and last week I unsuccesfully tried to give her four, day old chicks. When that failed I sent her back to the hen house, got the other broody hen, set up a nesting box in...
  11. Chicken Lil

    Ignorant people make me nuts...

    Why is it so many people think having chickens is unhealthy? Okay on friday morning I got up and got ready for work. When I was putting on my coat I suddenly got really sick, and had my head in the porcelain pot for the next half hour. Which really sucked as I hadn't even had anything but a...
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    Can't believe insurance co can do this!!!

    I am so ticked off right now I could just scream. It seems that it is always a struggle to deal with health insurance companies, that somehow they love to take your payments than always try to wiggle out of paying when they should! Okay I was a single parent for several years, and a job...
  13. Chicken Lil

    Help! What should I do now?

    Okay, last night I asked for help on egg laying and chicken behavior, but I had no responses. Maybe I was in the wrong section. Anyway here is the problem. My broody hen has been sitting in the nesting box for four weeks now. Yesterday my 4 new chicks arrived from MPC. They were all healthy and...
  14. Chicken Lil

    Need help, broody hen & fostering chicks

    I really need some advice on what to do with my new chicks and a broody silkie. Here is what is going on. My silkie has been broody for four weeks now, completely monopolizing one nesting box, not laying eggs, barely eating, and definetly very broody. Today I recieved my shipment of 4 chicks...
  15. Chicken Lil

    How long will they lay??

    Okay, I'm a newbie so this might seem like a dumb question, but.... I have two Lehorn hens that have each laid an egg a day for ten weeks now. Seems like a lot, not that I'm complaining , but how long do they usually lay for? Is this steak of laying every day common when they first start? I...
  16. Chicken Lil

    C'mon Get Happy!!

    Healthcare & Taxes & Unemployment, OH MY!! So to all, in the words of that great singing sensation, The Partridge Family, "C'mon get happy!" Let us know what makes you happy (PG rating please). I'll start... Dog slobber kisses after a bad day at work...
  17. Chicken Lil

    Can Broody hens raise day old chicks

    I have two Silkies that have gone broody, and nothing I do seems to stop this behavior. So I ordered 4 chicks, and plan on sticking them under the Silkies on the first night they arrive. Has anyone had succes with this? Also, should I move the hens out of the hen house so they can raise the...
  18. Chicken Lil

    Teenage daughters. Arrrghhh!!!

    My youngerst DD is fifteen and driving me nuts. She can't stand anything I do. It seems I am a total embarressment to have around. And worst is she can't stand my chickens. She thinks they are gross, even though I keep the hen house and coop clean, she still thinks they are dirty. Now she is...
  19. Chicken Lil

    need help with crazy hen...

    Help please I'm not sure what to do about my nutty little hen. She is a seven month old silkie who started laying about the first of the year. She has become broody and I have tried everything to get her out of this funk. First she tried to hatch the golf ball, but I took that away. Than she...
  20. Chicken Lil

    Red spot in yolk, sans rooster?? Huh

    Okay you guys are the experts, but I thought if an egg yolk had a red blood clump in it that it means it is fertilized? If so something is up in my hen house. I have 8 hens all of whom are actively laying, definetly no roosters anywhere around, as I am the only one in the neighborhood with...
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