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    Hawk Just Attacked my Chicken while I was Watching Through the Window!

    A small hawk just attacked my feather foot white chicken while my mother and I were admiring the chickens through the window. My husband ran outside and through a brick at it and I thought the chicken was dead, but my daughter picked her up and she has a gash on the side of her neck, but it is...
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    First Egg!

    Got my first egg from a hen I actually raised!!! and IN the nesting box, right between two golf balls! YIPPEE!!! The hen is 4 mos., 5 days old and it was (cause I already ate it) a "large" egg. Now I am thoroughly addicted.
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    New Haven zoning taking woman's chickens away

    I just saw on the news that a woman in New Haven, CT was going to lose her chickens because of zoning. An "anonymous" caller, tipped off zoning, complaining of the noise. They showed the chickens and yard on tv and the hens were all beauties, obviously well cared for. My heart goes out to her...
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    How to serve up crushed oyster shell

    Hi All, I purchased crushed oyster shell for my hens because I heard it is good for layers. How am I supposed to give it to them? Mixed in their feed? In a chick feeder? Like scratch? There's not a ton of it so I don't want to waste it. I can't find it around here, so I bought it while on...
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    Tail feather question....might be dumb

    Okay, do hens ever get the curved tail feathers that are attributed to Roos? I have two chickens that act like hens and at almost three months have not crowed, but they have those longer, curved tailfeathers. Is that a dead giveaway, or are there ever exeptions? If these two are roosters...
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    Lost my first chicken :(

    Our coop has a nesting box with access from outside. DH opened it to retrieve our new white hen to show my mother and did not lock it after. This morning, I wondered why the chickens weren't out and when I went to check they were hiding in the coop. The new white one was gone and there was...
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    A Stroke of luck!

    I have four 9 week old chicks I hand raised since five days old. It was looking to me like I had 2 that were hens (I would have placed wages on it) and 2 that were looking roosterish. Well, wouldn't you know one of the "hens" started crowing last week (good thing I'm not a betting person.)...
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    Coop in progress - have a question

    We are building our first coop for our 3 chicks. It is mostly out of materials we salvaged from our old finished basement we tore out. It is 8 x 12 altogether, with 2x4 of it being the housing portion and the rest will be screened in. It will have a hanging waterer and feeder in the screened...
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    Could you help me identify 3 chicks supposed to be purebred?

    Hi, I'm new here and have 3 three week old chicks. I work at a school where one of the parents is a vet and every year lets the school hatch some eggs. This year the eggs were supposedly from different kinds of purebred chickens. If any of you out there recognize the breeds could you help me...
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    How do you attach photos to a post?

    I would like to show members photos of my three week old chicks to see if I could get help identifying them. Not even my extremely techy DH and 16 yo son could figure it out. Any help out there?????
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