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    Roo doing what a Roo is suppose to do!

    We have a flock of two year old hens that we raised from fluff balls, and a flock that we got this past Feb at the local feed store. We purchased two Modern English game hens hoping to get a hen and a roo. Well we ended up with 2 roo's from the game hens. I keep one roo in with our flock of...
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    Fly control

    We have had some high temps recently, 100+ temps. I've noticed that we have had tons of fly's in and around the coop. I bought a bale of 3 way (oats, wheat and grasses) on the way home last night. Went out at 6:00 am this morning to beat the heat to clean out the coop's. At first I thought my...
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    Close call with a hawk

    So I had the girls free ranging all day yesterday while I was at work. Have had the original flock for two years now and never had a predator problem, even though we are in the country in the foothills. Got home from work and went to check on "the girls" all was fine. I went out to check on the...
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    At what age do Roosters mature sexually?

    We have an 18 week old bantam Modern English Game hen rooster, tonight he mounted our Austrolorpe who iis two years old and appered to have done the deed with her. Is he old enough to mate and fertilize her? This is our first time with a roo, and are still adapting to having one in our flock...
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    Got a first egg from my Leghorns

    Went out to collect eggs yesterday from the older girls, all who lay brown eggs. Came across a very small white egg in the nest box. Has to be from one of the 4 Leghorns that we got back in Feb. I wasn't expecting any eggs from these girls until late July or early August, what a nice surprise...
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    Mass confusion in the chicken world tonight

    Finally finished the new 8'X8' coop for the flock today. 8 of the hens had been living in the old Playhouse coop since we moved them out of the brooder 2 years ago, 5 pullets are from this years chick shopping excursion at the local feed store. The new coop is connectd to the existing run that...
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    Advice on coop roofing

    I'm am building a second coop for our expanding flock. I am able to get corrugated steel roofing material that is brand new from work. I am thinking of using this on the new coop but am worried about how much heat it will radiate into the coop. We live in the Sierra Nevada foothills in the...
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    Monster egg!

    I go out to collect eggs yesterday evening, I have a Dominique that has gone broody on me. I open the egg door and see that the cochins have laid egg's there, the Dominique is usually sitting on all the eggs but I notice that she is sitting out in front of the egg boxes. I reach under her and...
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    Gotta stay away from the feed store!

    So 2 weeks ago my wife and I went to the feed store to get 2 to 4 chicks. We came home with 12 chicks, 5 Silkies (Yes the feed store had Silkies), 2 game hens, 4 Leghorns, and an Austrolorpe. I stopped by a different feed store down the hill to get chick grit today and came home with 2 Rhode...
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    Flock routine

    We have a flock of 8, 2 year old hens. Over the past two years I have made a number of observations about them and am wondering if others have flocks that have a certain routine they go through. They have an order that they usually come out of the coop in every morning, and the very last hen to...
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    Took wife to the feed store

    I am the Chicken Whisperer in our house. Wife and I have been talking about adding 2 maybe 4 more chicks to our 2 year old flock of 8 hens. So I noticed when I was in town this morning that our local feed store had the "Chicks are here" sign out. I went home and told wife they had chicks in...
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    Been Months since we have got any eggs

    Maybe someone can offer some help advice. We have 8 hens, all be 2 years old on March 1st. We have not had an egg since October, and even before then our production had dropped to 1 to 3 eggs a day. We are in Central Ca. in the lower elevation foothills. We had a very strange summer as it was...
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    Hen is walking unsteadily

    This all started about 3 weeks ago. We have a year and a half old Black Austrolorp, who 3 weeks ago came charging out of the coop with the other girls when I let them out that morning. I noticed that by late afternoon she was sitting in the shade by herself and wasn't acting herself. This has...
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    Runny discharge from vent

    I hope someone can stear me into the right direction with this issue. One of our 9 month old Austrolorpes appears to have had a broken soft shell egg sticking out of her vent yesterday. I gentle removed the egg, and isolated her from the flock for a few hours. she was picking at food and...
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    Found a nice site for natural remedies

    I located this site through an article in a poultry magazine. http://www.moonlightmileherbs.com/poultry.html, They are herbalists with recipe posting's. I have tried the natural wormer which seems to be working. And made a batch of the Alfalfa tea today. The girls have been drinking the tea...
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    Double yoker

    I collected the eggs the other evening and noticed a rather larger then normal egg, Cracked it to fry this morning and had a double yoke. This is our first double yoke from the girls.
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    Little white worms in poop

    I was cleaning out the coop this afternoon and let the girls out to free range while I cleaned. One of the girls (I did not see which one) pooped outside the coop. I noticed what looked like small grains of rice moving around in the fresh poo. later I found some very runny poo that had the same...
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    Swollen toes and no nails

    I have an Australorpe hen 7 months old. When I was locking them up for the evening last night, i noticed that she has swollen, kinda bulbus toes and appears that her nails have fallen out. She seems to be walking alright, and I noticed that she is eating and drinking this morning. I'm waiting...
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    Time of day when the eggs are laid

    We have been getting our first eggs for about two and a half weeks now. We have 9 hens and we are sure that some have yet to lay. We started collecting eggs in the morning and that was going alright, but recently we are getting eggs at all times of the day. From between morning until late into...
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    Got our first two eggs today

    Went into work later this morning then usual. While I was letting the dog out before I left, I heard one of the 19 week old girls raising a ruckus in the hen house. I saw her come out, so I walked down to the run to check on her. I looked through the fencing and she seemed fine. I got to work...
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