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    Looking to rehome 13 Laying Hens!!!

    I am looking to rehome my flock of 13 laying hens. I have 1 jersey giant/australorp mix, two Buff Orpingtons, two Partridge Rocks, and 8 Rhode Island Reds! The flock lays about 10-12 eggs a day and has been at my house for 3 years. All the birds are calm and on the quieter side, and were...
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    University of Chickens!

    Hey guys, I'm just curious - I joined this site when I was a freshman in college and now I'm a senior approaching graduation. I got my chickens around the end of freshman year, and my experience of raising hens and going to school has kind of been intertwined in a sense. So I'm curious...
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    Deer Ate My Apple Tree!

    This is my first posting on garden section, and I wish it was a better topic, but a deer really went to town on my new apple tree. I had it in the ground about two weeks and didn't do my homework because I failed to surround the tree with fencing. Now, about 80 percent of the leaves are gone...
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    Questions on Pullet Eggs (picture comparison)

    BYC, Back in July I bought 9 new pullets for my chicken house and they started laying about 2 weeks ago, but they're laying such tiny eggs. The birds are Rhode Island Reds and Partridge Rocks, and they are full grown. The eggs are incredible small, probably less than two inches high. It's...
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    Integrating my flock today (Pics of setup included)

    Wish me luck BYC...I'll be integrating 8-10 Australorp and Rhode Island Red pullets into my flock of 5 hens (Buff Orpingtons, Minorca, and Red Sex Link) in a few hours. I'm slated to pick up the birds at 10, and then the process begins. I have read up plenty and prepared my chicken house for...
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    Pullets or laying hens in Tri-State Area!!

    Hello BYC, I am looking to buy or adopt any healthy laying hens or pullets that are in the tri-state area. I live in northern NJ and have a flock of five, but I recently built a brand new chicken coop and have plenty of room for more. I am willing to drive a good distance to pick up birds -...
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    Chicken Laying down A LOT

    BYC, I am kind of concerned lately with the behavior of one of my hens. She is a 1 1/2 year old Buff Orpington and recently she has been laying down outside a ton. It is kind of a weird situation, because she nor any of my birds have done this before, however when I come with snacks or to...
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    Looking for Pullets in Late May

    I did this last year, and it worked out well! I am looking to buy started pullets in mid-late May (depending on when a seller can) to add to my flock. I recently built a larger coop and I want to add to my current flock of 5. I am looking to buy a whole bunch of new birds, and will entertain...
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    Tomato seedlings yellowing, curling! Help! (Pics included)

    Hey BYC Gardeners, So I started roughly 70 tomato plants under grow lights in my basement this spring, seeding in mid-late march when I was on spring break, and everything had been going well until about now. Some of my tomato plants have been looking pretty bad recently, and I am not exactly...
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    Question about Beans!

    Hey all, Just wanted to pose a question about bean seedlings and such. I live in NJ, and the weather the past three days was absolutely beautiful. Two days were over 80 degrees, and the nights were a cool 65-70, almost like a summer night in April. Anyways, I guess the hot weather got me a...
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    Help!! Chicken with cut on head!! Picture included

    BYC...I need some advice... I just came home from college on spring break and I noticed that one of my birds has a pretty large cut on her head. She is a buff orpington in a flock of 5, and they have always gotten along. I'm ruling out predator because it is only a cut on her head and no...
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    To build, or not to build? That is the Question!

    BYC, Last year, my friends and I decided to build a chicken coop in my yard so that I could raise hens. At first, my family thought the idea was ridiculous and they laughed...but two months later there was a coop constructed in the backyard. When May came, the hen house became home to five...
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    Red Heat Lamp making Chickens Violent!?

    So here in NJ we are in the midst of a pretty tough cold snap (10-15 degree nights are expected until Sunday), so I went out and bought a heat lamp, because I have one bird in my flock going through a molt. So, after installing the lamp in the coop with some duct tape and a clamp, I tossed the...
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    Minorca in Winter - Help!

    So, I seem to have a slight predicament on my hands. In May 2013, I bought five birds from a local chicken keeper, 3 Buffs, a Red Sex Link, and what was supposed to be an Australorp. Turns out, this australorp is more of a Minorca. Slender build, white earlobes and white eggs, blue sheen in...
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    What is the longest it has taken your hens to lay??

    I have a 10 month old orpington named Bufferball who has yet to lay an egg. Her two sisters are laying great (3-5 eggs a week in winter), but Buffer is cleary different...special if you will. She has always been well behind her sisters in maturity, and her comb and giblets have just sort of...
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    Complaints with Sand

    I have sand in my outside run of my hen house and I can say that I am not impressed. The sand did well in the summer, but in the fall/winter it got messy. To start, leaves and all other junk fall in and get crushed into it, making it appear pretty gross. Secondly, unless you are out with your...
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    How early can a chicken begin to molt?

    Hey All, Quick question...I have a chicken that I bought back in May who is 8-10 months old. She was sold to me as an Australorp mix, however she appears to by some type of Leghorn/Wyandotte mix. I'm not sure - she lays a white egg, has a slender build, blue sheen in sunlight, etc. Anyways...
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    Looking to buy an incubator?

    Does anybody have an incubator which they are looking to sell for cheap? I would like to hatch chicken, quail, and maybe even turkey eggs over the summer and I will need an incubator to do so. An egg turner (if you have) would also be great. Most on eBay are roughly $80-100 and I was hoping...
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    Forage Simulation with Leaves!

    For all of the urban chicken keepers or people who don't have huge yards, here is a great idea I just kind of put together before. Since there are a ton of leaves on the ground, I figured I might as well throw some into the coop. Other members have already done so as well, and it seems...
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    Red Residue Spots on Eggs

    Hey All, Quick Question...So I have five hens who are all happy, healthy, and have been laying steady for about 4 months. I get anywhere between 3-5 eggs a day. Anyways, today I went to harvest some eggs, and there were small red freckles on the outside of two of the eggs. This isn't...
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