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    Cheesy but thank you guys

    So I don't post a huge amount, but I read pretty obsessively over here, and have learned a huge amount, and I hadn't realized exactly how much until we noticed that a couple of The Collective had pecked spots on their wings yesterday morning (let me tell it's tons of fun to be rushing around...
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    A little dh and coop silliness

    So our new (okay nearly 3 months now, but still) house is on 8.77 acres, with a 1/3 acre pond (pre-stocked with catfish, we are SO spoiled )... And dh is a woodworker, so he just bought himself the plans for a really cute little wooden canoe for the pond, perfect for he and our daughter (or me...
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    Tricks for laying in the nest box

    Parvati has not been laying in the new coop since we moved her, so I just wanted to double check the tricks for getting them to lay in their coops. 1.) Fake egg in the nest box for a few days, let them know it's what the box is for. 2.) Containing them in the coop for a few days WITH the fake...
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    Comb Development and Secondary Sex Traits in babies?

    Okay, I know that I'm asking a very broad and kind of vague question, so I'm really not looking for definite answers, just a sense of what other people have experienced. We have 16 chickies, 2 weeks old this weekend/next monday. About 5-6 of them *seem* to have combs that are already...
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    WOO HOO!

    We moved Shiva and Parvati into the new coop today!!! We're going to move Dusty into the "temp" coop tomorrow early (so I can sit in there with him for a little while before a doctor's appointment) so that he can start to meet Shiva and Parvati but contained to keep things calm. He's been so...
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    chicken raising always dramatastic?

    Is it always crazy? Is it always one thing after another? I'm just asking. I have never gone through a new pet learning process that left me feeling so much stress (or joy, I absolutely LOVE them, don't get me wrong), but... Just really want *one* day to go by without something happening...
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    We've been discovered! (Happy ending though)

    To set the scene: the temp coop (which is being replaced tonight with the real coop, YEAH! once I find where my dh put the camera I'll post pics) is about 50 ft. from our bedroom, and we sleep with the window open (I love the soft night noises of living in the country). Last night I wake up...
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    chickens or husband? (right now? chickens) -UPDATE: I'll keep 'em both

    We're keeping our chicks in the laundry room, which is separated by closet doors (the type that fold in the middle) from the downstairs bathroom, which has traditionally been where we "crated" Maggie, our 60 pound love muffin black lab/aussie shepherd cross who likes to sleep on furniture when...
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    Curious about patterns

    It seems like those who free range have a more common loss of 1 or 2 birds, but don't seem to suffer the horrific massacres that far more rarely happen w/ birds in runs... Based on the stories here, it seems like the free range birds scatter if there is a predator attack, and so you loose one...
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    cutest chicken moment yet.

    so last night I went in to check on The Collective before I went to bed, and on a whim grabbed a handful of feed, and just laid my arm down in their brood box, with the feed in my hand. I started with about a half dozen chicks eating feed out of my hand (and trying to eat my freckles...
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    Broiler or Layer for 2 birds?

    Okay, so here's the backstory. 2 birds, 1 roo who might eventually become dinner, but no guarantees one way or the other. 1 hen who was adopted from a friend particularly because the roo needed company while the rest of our flock develops*. Both mature but fairly young (about a year for both...
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    Pipping and Cheeping and Hatching O' My! Pics & Final Update

    One has hatched, and about 8 more are obviously and actively working on it.. So far the others have just got their pip holes out, and they're getting abused something fierce by their big sister (I hope ) who is stumbling around calling for someone to play with! And before you ask, I haven't...
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    Twitching egg?

    Is it possible for about a day or so before they should be starting to think about pipping that you would actually see the egg kind of 'rock' just a little bit. I swear to god I think I saw the egg move, not much, but about 3 times and I just want to know if it's my imagination or if this can...
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    Speaking of morons: And the Fates were kind...

    Since Mayberry keeps coming up with morons, I'll add another to the list. Me. Apparently I am too stupid for raising chickens. I wanted to let Shiva (the new Brahma that we rescued) out to explore a little bit. Yeah. I'm sure that you can all see where this is going. I'm really...
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    Handsome Boy!

    So if you saw the post on the trade/sell/give away board noting a silver spangled hamburg in need of rescue in Newfield NY, well, he has a home, and OMG is he handsome!!! He is actually a Brahma (editted: got my comb types mixed up, he's got the triple, which is the pea comb (oops), so he is...
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    Counting?

    So we got our eggs mid-afternoon on a Sunday, so they were in the incubator from 2pm on or so.. So is Sunday day one, or does day 1 get counted a full 24 hours after they went in the incubator, so 2pm on Monday? (no, I'm not getting obsessed waiting for the kids to hatch, why do you ask...
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    The humor of non-chicken keeping friends.

    My husband and I are in our late twenties (okay I'm 29 and he's 30, so we're on the cusp ) with a lot of friends who don't get the whole chicken thing. They think we're kind of crazy (well, we are, but that's besides the point), but they are largely folks who grew up in urban and suburban...
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    Need more faith

    I need to have more faith for this process, we were on day 5 and had both started wondering whether or not the eggs were fertile, *nothing* was showing, even on the white eggs, when we candled. So we decided to confirm for ourselves whether or not they were, and we cracked one.. Beautiful...
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    Genetic Diversity?

    So we're starting this crazy process that is chicken keeping, and are incubating our first round of chickies. But I'm already obsessing over the spring and what we'll do when they're of breeding age and all. We are planning on having ~12-20 birds, including a couple of roosters. Although...
  20. PeiTheCelt

    Patience while waiting

    How do you do it your first time? My husband and I just got our first round of eggs yesterday from a friend who has a really successful flock that's been bred for being really gentle and good layers (they are mutts, with Buff Orphington, Speckled Sussex, Ameracauna, uhmmm... Yeah, and a couple...
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