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    Starting over after Mareks -

    Hi, all. Get your coffee ready...sorry for long post. ☕ I've been a small flock backyard chicken keeper and member here for 10 years. Have always appreciated being able to use this site and your collective experiences/advice as my first go-to resource! It's been a doozy of a year. :( A year ago...
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    So. CA: 2 four-month old roos... free!

    Hello, all. All 3 of my summer hatch chicks turned out to be boys. Drat ... city ordinance does not allow me to keep roosters. Boo/tears! :( Have rehomed one already. So... it's time to part ways with the last two baby roos. "Cheep cheep" (FREE) to good home with a flock of gals to call...
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    yellowish spots on comb

    Good morning. Yesterday, my daughter and I spent nearly the entire day doing a thorough "Spring Cleaning" on the hens' coop and hen house. The girls were so happy when I finally let them back in the coop, so I used that opportunity to pick up each one & inspect them as they lined up at the...
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    Mystery hole in egg... possible reasons?

    Okay, I've got one hen out of five (a barred rock) whose eggs usually end up with a hole or a crackled spot on the very tip of the pointy end. See here... it's pretty obvious that her egg is on the top right. She started laying a month ago. Thankfully, the membrane is never broken - and she...
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    so fascinating! ...the non egg layers

    Alrighty...as some of you know, one of this newbie's chickens laid her first egg on Monday afternoon. She laid her 2nd egg approx 40 hours later around 830am this morning. *happy sigh* Those two wee brown eggs = EGGS-CITING stuff around here!! This morning, we knew the egg was coming...
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    Oh happy day!

    First egg today!!! At 330 pm. And double yay...it was from Oreo, the one that I had worried a couple weeks ago might be a rooster. NOT! LOL Oreo (and a couple others) have been doing the squat+shake for about a week now. And earlier this afternoon, I found Oreo in the hen...
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    yard fencing

    Fencing ideas needed! So my coop & the enclosed portion of the run have been in for about 3 months now. The chickens seem happy as little clams, and each morning I've been pulling out my German Shepherd's old x-pen to create a semi-circle just outside the coop for the girls to get out and...
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    Found a parakeet in my backyard

    I swear, we are lost pet magnets! (not that I mind hee hee). First, the Siamese kitty I found on my door step last year... luckily she was wearing a collar with one of those 800-lostpet kinds of phone numbers...she had been reported missing 3 days prior and her grateful owners drove right over...
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    little pullet with the loudest vocalizations

    Wasn't quite sure what forum section to jump into, but I figured "behavior" was a good place to start. :) If I'm cackling up the wrong roost, just let me know! Ha - I crack myself up. Anyhooo... to recap, I have 5 pullets. All about 15 weeks old now. One is a Welsummer - and from a very...
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    *sigh!* Round 2 of MALE or FEMALE? :)

    Hello, BYC friends. I would again like to ask for your input & opinions about the sex of one of my teeny-boppers. In June, you were all very helpful (and correct!) in helping me determine that my BLRW was a rooster, and we rehomed him within a couple of weeks because we cannot keep roosters in...
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    spider web...chicken said "eek!"

    Haha...just a funny story from a bit ago. I let the peeps (12 weeks now) out into the yard while I checked on the coop and fed them some snackies. My Delaware pullet,"Oreo" (who seems to have jockeyed herself into alpha chick since I rehomed our wee rooster a couple weeks ago), was pecking...
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    lights and doors

    A couple more newbie questions/observations for you kind folks! My chicks are almost 9 weeks old (have one that is a week younger). Q1 - As I previously mentioned in an earlier thread, when I first put the babies out into the big girl coop, I installed a low wattage LED "rope light" around...
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    leftover decomposed granite...

    Okay... sand and decomposed granite (DG). Have new coop for my new chicks, and it has a run/floor area of 72sf. Was planning all along to put down washed construction grade sand as the flooring....BUT after a landscaping project was completed in my backyard this past weekend, we ended up with...
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    suppose I should intro myself :)

    Got a little ahead of meself and posted my first official post in the "what gender is it" area before making nice over here in the "intro" area, :) Brand new to chickens by about 6 weeks, but already smitten with the 5 babies I bought. Live in So. Cal, and besides the chicks I also have the...
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    Howdy from newbie! BLRW sexing question!

    Joined here recently...such a great resource for someone like myself who is new to chickens! Have been lurking (aka reading) as much as I can here to find answers to my questions w/out having to post a question that you've seen a hundred times before. :) So, I've learned a lot at BYC about...
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