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    Poor Flossy

    Our first set of 12 chickens is a little over 5 years old and over the years we've lost 4 to sudden death and things that necessitated our helping them along to chicken heaven. One of our the survivors is Flossy, who has never been quite "normal." She has an odd feather pattern - never really...
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    Let's see some moulting chickens

    I'm sorry, but I think those moulting chickens are one of the funniest things I've seen!
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    will this rooster get past the teenage hormone craze?

    My rooster, Cyril, wore the feathers off the backs of all my eleven hens this past summer (they all turned one year old in June). I was trying to find a new home for him, but then I noticed last week that most of my girls are going through a slow moult and are growing feathers back on their...
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    rehoming

    My rooster Cyril needs a new home. Does anyone have advice about how to find him one? He is a gorgeous SLW, 16 months old. He needs to be in a much larger flock and would benefit from being with at least one other rooster. He has worn the feathers off the backs of my hens and I just can't...
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    Hen standing straight up

    I had posted this on the Emergencies and Illness forum, but got no response. Maybe someone here can give me some feedback... One of my BO hens, Lilly, has for a while been walking kind of funny. All the other hens bend over and peck the ground with their fuzzy butts in the air. Lilly looks...
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    Odd Posture

    One of my BO hens, Lilly, has for a while been walking kind of funny. All the other hens bend over and peck the ground with their fuzzy butts in the air. Lilly looks like she is in a "squat" posture, with her tail down. When she walks it is more upright than the others. I have to lift her on...
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    aprons on chickens

    My hens were looking a little shopworn on their backs from my rooster, Cyril's, amorous but inexperienced attentions. So I put aprons on them. How long can those aprons stay on? Should I take them off every once in a while? I'm just thinking that I know my bra straps itch and bind after just...
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    Cyril the Brave

    Yesterday my 11 hens and 1 rooster, Cyril, were pecking around their pen and out of the woods came two roving english setters. They came sneaking up to the coop - my DH just happened to look out and see them. By the time he got out the door, Cryil had gathered his girls around him and was...
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    bare-backed hens

    I'm a first-time chicken keeper. My rooster, Cyril, seems to be a great rooster. He shares all treats, telling the girls that he brought them, so they should appreciate him. He is very protective of them and doesn't appear to think that he needs to be aggressive to either me or my husband...
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    The First Egg! YIPPEE!!!

    FINALLY!! The First Egg! Laid on Sunday, December 5th. (a second egg was laid, presumably by the same lady 2 days later) Not sure who laid it, but the two main suspects (at 25 weeks of age) are Desdemona, the BA in the middle of this photo... ...or it's this one, Matilda, the...
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    Cyril the SLW roo at 17 weeks

    Here is my boy, Cyril - who just started crowing last week!
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    First Crow!!

    My beautiful (I'll post a photo tomorrow) 16-week old SLW rooster, Cyril, crowed for the first time this morning. I think that he had been practicing in secret out behind the coop, although I've heard nothing, because it was a full-fledged fabulous crow! I am so proud of him. Folks at work...
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    Buff Orp Squatting

    My B.O. is almost 16 weeks old and has been squatting when I pet her for a few days now. She's kind of young for that isn't she. My roo doesn't even get it yet. He looks at her like she's kind of nuts. I also have a B.A. who is about the same age who is beginning to show signs of squatting...
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    Are My Chickaboos Idiots?

    My chickens are now 12 weeks old. They have been in their coop/run since they were 3 weeks old. Each night I look out at dusk and they have taken their little fuzz-butts inside the coop and are all bedded down in a chicken pile, so I go out and shut up the coop and everyone is happy. I've...
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    is there a better waterer out there?

    I got one of those galvanized double-walled waterers, thinking that, come fall, I would get the metal heater bottom for it. We live in NH and below zero temps in the winter make heated waterers a necessity. We have plastic electrically heated buckets for our goats and those work great. This...
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    The Chickaboos make their grand entrance (lots of pics)

    So... after the goat boys finished clearing out the chicken run (see yesterday's post), we put up the last section of fence and opened the hen door. Here's the story... The door opens... Who's gonna go first? Lily the Brave!! Everybody Out! Well... everybody but Cyril the Rooster...
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    goats help clear out chicken run

    I just had to share. We finished the chicken run yesterday with the exception of one section that will be completed later today. Before that last section was to be put in place, however, we let our three angora goats, Wilbur, Bill, and Peanut, into the chicken run area so that they could...
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    Lily the Lap Chicken and all her pals

    Here is a photo of my Lily the Lap Chicken. and a photo of Lily and her pals, Olivia and Delia. and a photo of the whole crew (I call them the Chickaboos) inside their new coop... They will all be 4 weeks old on Monday. I'm so happy that they came to live with me!
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    in love with grit

    I finally got a 50# bag of play sand to use for chick grit, since I couldn't find it anywhere. I thought "OK, I'll use a cup of this and then I'll sprinkle the rest of in their run when I put them in the big-chicken-coop." Well, every morning I've been putting a little pile of the sand in a...
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    New chicks - grit

    Hi - I just got my baby chicks on Tuesday! So exciting - I'm a first-time chicken parent. My question is about giving them grit. I've looked at all my local suppliers and none of them carry chick grit. My question is... I read somewhere to go out and dig them a nice clod of turf and they...
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