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    Adding Eggs to an Incubation that's already started.

    Hi Friends! I recently had a roo that got seriously hurt and had to be put down. To me he was a beloved Roo and came when I called his name. I decided that I would try to hatch out some of his girls' eggs. I had only one laid on the 22nd, and 5 laid from the 23rd, and 6 from the 24th. I read...
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    Update on my surprise visit

    Last summer you may remember reading about four geese that came to my house. Tried as I might, I kept those geese in my yard but with little success. I only have a 10X10 chicken coop with 13 chickens in it. I kept the geese in the fenced in part of my back yard, but that was problematic. I...
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    Sad news with a happy ending.

    For those of you who have been following the "Surprising Visit" post, this is an update A couple of days ago, I let the geese out to romp with the chickens. They seemed so happy to be out of the backyard and wandered to my nieghbor's house to chase the ducks and see the big male goose that stays...
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    surprising visit

    I live on a lake, and yesterday 4 beautiful Chinise White (or snow) Geese graced my yard. They were so sweet and followed me all around. Of course they ate grass but I spoiled them by giving them chicken scratch, four bowls to be exact. It made me realize that I wanted my own geese. I have a...
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    New pullets in my established flock.

    Hi there and thanks for reading this! I had an established flock of 8, two of them being Roos. Over a period of about a month my flock was attacked by an unknown predator, probably dog and/or raccoon, and whittled down my flock to 3; 1 roo and 2 hens. About four months ago, I purchased 10...
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    I wanted to post pictues on this site but...

    I don't see the icons that allow it. I hven't been very active until lately but i've posted in the past, do I need to wait for something to clear so before I can post picctures again?
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    Do flocks get depressed?

    This post may make no horse sense to my fellow birders but it's be bugging me and I just have to ask, but first the back story. I've been under a tremendous amount of stress both in my homelife and in my job, and that's only indirectly what this is about. As a result of all this stress, twice...
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    Chicken Math

    It's been a long time since I've posted, but I've been working with my flock. This past weekend I went to LOOK at the chicks, then I thought I could bring four home, and ended up with 10!! They are so cute, but I'm lost as to what they are. They were all sold as pullets but they were next to a...
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    I'm so excited!

    19 days ago, one of my hens laid an egg and went broody. I thought, why not? So I let her sit on it thinking she'd get bored and give up, no not my Taco. Every few days I checked on her and the egg, I even tried to candle but my light wasn't strong enough to pierce through the brown she'll but I...
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    Can 1 hen lay two eggs on the same day?

    Either I have one hen laying two eggs or I have two hens laying a eggs in the same spot. I have seen the one hen lay when there are no eggs, when she gets up there are two eggs but I don't have my eye in her all the time so another could be taking her place when the first leaves bit the time...
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    Question about hard boiling fresh eggs

    I don't know if m so accustomed to commercial eggs than fresh eggs or what but my hard boiled fresh eggs were very difficult to peel. How long do you boil fresh eggs so that the whites come clean from the shell?
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    5 month old chicken won't/can't walk

    Yesterday I thought thatI may have a pullet that might be egg bound because she just laid down and wouldn't get up. When she walks she uses her wings. Thinking she may be egg bound, I put her in warm water as suggested in other posts and nothing. Yesterday she ate and drank so I put her back in...
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    It's a first for me and my pullet - maybe soon-to-be-hen

    So back mid-February i bought five buff Orpington pullets; today when I went to let them free range, it was about 7 this morning and one of the girls, wasn't eagerly waiting to leave the coop. In fact, she kind of tried to get up but then seemed to change her mind and laid back own. She won't...
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    Anyone from Rio Grande Valley...

    I have an EE/Specked Sussex rooster that I need to rehome. Please let me know if you're interested. He needs a country home, and he's most definitely a lover not a fighter.
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    Have a look/see and tell me what you think...(Bantams)T

    These are my bantams, I have four. They are about 31/2 to 4 months old. This is Jasmine, I think she's a Cochin pullet. She has feathered feet and uber cute. what say you? This is Eggolas (from Lord of the Rings' Legolas) I'm pretty sure he's a cockerel, he's already crowing, but I don't...
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    Do you think this is a Halene or a Howard?

    This is a chicken i named Halene (after my grandmother, she and my grandfather called each other "chiicken" as pet names) To me she looked like a perfect example of a hen. Her body did not develop like the other two birds that I KNOW are roos. Halene is the brown one. This is Frank (named...
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    New Egg trying to crack out of her shell...

    How many posts do I need in order to no longer be a new egg?:P
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    To Clip or Not To Clip, That is the Question

    February 15 2014, I took the plunge and purchased 5 Buff Orpington pullets and 3 straight run Easter Eggers, 3 months later I'm pretty sure I have two EE Roos and 1 EE pullet. My parents and I live on about two acres so my chickens get to free range, when I'm home to play chicken shepherd, so...
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    Spoiled chicks

    Yesterday was a nice day and so I thought it would be a good day to put the chicks in their baby coop. Today it was too cool so I brought them back in and put them next so the heater, when they finished eating they went next to the heater, laid on their sides, stretched their feet out and lifted...
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    Texas weather.

    I'm putting this on the Texas page because only Texans understand Texas weather and how varied it can be. I live in deep South Texas, right off the Mexico boarder. Right now it's raining, kind of, and the temperature is going to hang around 49-50. In the north that's summer, down here that's...
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