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    My girls are slackers!

    I've got 4 hens I raised from chicks, now all just over a year old. Two, my Welsummer, Olive, and my EE, Flossie, are laying 5-6 eggs each per week, but Mary, my Buff Orp, lays at most one egg per week, and Francis, my other EE has yet to lay a single egg. Mary at least will sit in the nest...
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    Fowl Play: A Cautionary Real Life Tale

    Once upon a time there was a cheery backyard coop housing 3 happy hens, Bertha, Mildred, and Gertrude. Bertha, a Red Star, was head hen, and a fair and kindly head hen she was. Mildred, an Australope, was feisty and loud, but knew her place. Gertrude, an Easter Egger, was meek and mild, sweetly...
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    Has anyone else had their chickens fail the nipple waterers?

    I have a small backyard flock of 4 pullets, aged 13 weeks. When chicks they drank from the 1 quart red/white plastic dish waterer, but about 3 weeks ago we hung a 4 nipple bucket waterer in their coop. I kept the dish waterer for a few days and actually (please don't laugh!) spent one on one...
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    What is my Mildred?

    I ordered a Black Star (black sex link) and got her at age 2 days. She was black with some white on her chest and a slight bit of white on the wing area...smaller than the other black sex links in the bin but I chose her because she was so active. Now at 12 weeks she is totally black with...
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    Question about my Black Star (black sex link) chick w/ pics

    Hello, and thank you in advance for your knowledge! I am very new to chicken raising! I was looking at pictures of black sex link hens here and was surprised to see the pretty "red leakage" in the feathering. When does that occur? My black sex link is 8 weeks old and has no sign of it. She is...
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    So proud of my chicks!

    My chicks are 7 weeks old and yesterday was their first day in the outdoor coop. They spent most of the day happily in the run, but at dusk we had to catch them and put them inside the coop for the night. They cried pitifully! Tonight DH and I went out at 8 pm to put them in, and they had...
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    Our First Coop! Play Structure Conversion

    This is the coop my husband built for our 4 girls. We started with an old but solid play structure that was on the property when we bought it last fall. DH designed and built the 4 walls and roof on to the existing elevated platform to make the 4'x 6' coop, and enclosed the 8 x 15 foot run...
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    OMG. I thought I killed them!

    I have my four 2.5 week olds out for some playtime while I did some computer work in the same room. I suddenly sneezed and it apparently scared them! There was some loud squawks, a fluttering scramble, then dead silence. I found them in the corner, frozen like a statue. I felt SO bad!
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    Normal for 5 day old chicks?

    My four 5 day old chicks have learned to throw food out of their feeder to the point that they empty the 1 qt container in just a few hours. Then it looks like at least one of them is trying to take a dust bath in it.... Otherwise they are doing what I would expect 5 day olds to do--eat...
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