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    molting again, no eggs, advice?

    my chickens layed for about five months (started january-ish) and have now started molting again. their third molt. their last molt lasted about five months, then they took two months off just standing around eating. seven months of dink-doinking around. I have three orpingtons and two...
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    happiness is sleeping chicks (pic)

    sound asleep in the bathtub brooder, five new buff orps soon to be added to the rest of the gang cant wait
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    ?'s re new chicks and vaccines and medicated food

    i am planning on adding to my flock my current hens were purchased from mcmurray and vaccinated the new chicks will likely be from a backyard breeder once feathered out, the will be kept adjacent to the current flock for a gradual acclimatization do the chicks need medicated food? i dont...
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    looking for buff orpington chicks

    just like the title says, i'm looking to add to my backyard flock of australorps and orpingtons would like to add some buffs, the bigger the breeding stock the better, yea for big girls you can pm me and i can also be reached at uaetcoj at yahoo dot com thanks
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    do i really need to bury the fence around my run?

    i am making a new run for the ladies going to use hardware cloth or 1x2 around it. it's approx 18'x6' i live in the city proper, not even the suburbs. there aren't any skunks, racoons, opossums, coyotes, or any other digging type predator that i can think of that make it into my backyard. the...
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    australorp colors?

    i've done a little looking and the only color i've seen available is black an image search on google shows a "blue" someone tell me, do they come in any other color? thanks
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    whats with the growling chicken? (movie)

    a little growling match between me and the orpington what gives? it seemed to be a satisfied chicken noise. she was sittin' fat and happy in the driveway, happily growing to herself. when i brought out the camera, she stopped, so i growled a little to get her going again. anyone have an...
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    questions on an outdoor run

    i am going to make an outdoor run for my standards (3). chicken math says that i need approx 10 square feet of outdoor run space to keep everyone from going nuts. i plan on making the run about 5' x 12', maybe gonna add two more hens. i was reading gail damerows book and she says that you...
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    great article on backyard processing

    http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/issues/3/3-1/Harvey_Ussery.html it really explains the problems and solutions for several real world, small-scale growers. i've been thinking about raising meat birds and this article really helped to clarify some issues. i like the overall philosophy as...
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    a big nest box ado - w/pics and movs

    there was a problem today in los angeles. princess jessica, a large white orp, was in the nesting box. blackaroni, a medium to large australorp, needed to get rid of an egg, and so started all the commotion. first blackaroni tried to cajole princess jessica into just leaving the box but...
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    connecticuters - remember danbury fair?

    at the time, it was the biggest fair on the eastern seaboard i was talking to my wife the other day trying to describe the danbury fair. and how sad that its now the danbury mall. this was my first exposure to livestock, all kinds. i remember walking into the poultry house and hearing the...
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    please post pics of your broody hen

    my ladies are all happily unbroody, going about their egglaying business, unsullied by thoughts of young chicks and staying on a nest for days. i know that many of you aren't all that happy with your broodies, but i gotta tell you, the pictures of your broody hens are fabulous. so please, post...
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    behold my new invention, w/ pics

    behold my new invention. the chicken feeder. i grew tired of wasting food. i tried the standard hanging feeder and it was a disaster. the ladies would peck at the holes to eat the corn and only the corn. i would go through 4-5 lbs of food a day with three large chickens. when the feeder tray...
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    look what my chickens did to my leaf pile

    i tried to explain to my wife that i really did do the work
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    one is laying - others not - what to feed?

    my three ladies are free range - free choice. one has started laying and the others are to follow shortly. in theory they are all the same age. should i feed them layer ration? or just stick with the usual until they are all laying? how about oyster shell for all right now? thanks
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    my backyard chickens - a short movie

    the big ladies are the most recent video, the white orpington is big jessica. the black australorps are fluffy lover and black-a-roni. the fluff is a little on the small side and squeaks a lot. black-a-roni growls a whole bunch. big j just does a lot of yelling now that she has learned to lay eggs.
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    my backyard city coop w/ pictures

    heres the coop i built for our small los angeles backyard, just finished the nesting box three days ago and got an egg today. thats good timing. 1/2 cdx plywood and some 2x4s. originally used when they were all chicks, seven of them then. added on some longer legs to raise things up a bit...
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    first egg today

    i had the day off and was doing a little work in the chicken area. my white orpington, jessica, spent the entire morning yelling at me. you know, "bok, bok, bok, bok, bok, etc". i was in the house later and heard more commotion. the two black australorps, fluffy lover and black-a-roni, were...
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    how soon w/ no heat

    ive got four chicks about four to five weeks old. three australorps and one orpington. they are pretty well feathered, except for their heads which are going through the ugly stage. they spend all their days out in the yard and have been for about two weeks. they live in a 4' x 2.5" coop in...
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