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    First Egg!

    First olive egg from my Light Brahma roo x EE/Americauna hen crosses! Not sure which of the 3 pullets laid it. They were 24 weeks old as of last Friday. Opened the nest box and surprise! Compared to my BR Little Hen's eggs, she laid the 3 small brown eggs. The pullet's first olive egg is...
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    Predator Disposal After Capture

    As noted in just about all threads on this topic, relocation of live predators is not advised and in most states, illegal. So what do with the coon, possum, etc.., you caught that is alive in your trap? Killing Predators: 1. .22 rimfire: A .22 rifle with subsonic shorts or even CB caps is the...
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    Who Needs a Rooster When You have 3 Adolescent Pullets???

    6:21 am this morning, the only morning I can sleep in, all three of my 15 week old pullets decided it was a good time to practice their Egg Song for the first time. Needless to say, they wont be starring in Pitch Perfect III. Cant decide if it was beautiful music or the most gosh awful noise I...
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    11 Weeks Old, Did I Select All Hens???

    Here are pictures of my 11 week old chickens. I thinned the flock back on July 2nd, got rid of all the birds I was 90% sure were roosters and one that was obviously having some developmental issues. I am hoping all 5 I kept were hens. I am pretty sure on 2 of the white/black ones and the one...
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    Responsibility to Secure Your Birds

    I just cant take it anymore, I have to comment. Sorry if I offend anyone, but sometimes it cant be helped. We all lose a bird every now and then. Stuff happens. I lost one of Christmas to a possum (a now deceased possum). But that should be the exception. But I've a member here only a week...
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    Made a Nipple Waterer with a 5 Gallon Pale But.....

    So I made a waterer with a 5 gallon pail and 4 water nipples in the bottom. Hung it in the run. I also have 2 1-gallon gravity waterers out there. So far, chickens have not caught on to fact that water comes out the nipples, haven't even seen one peck at them even when standing under it. Any...
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    Chick with little feather development

    Here is one of the chicks from the 11 my broody Little Hen set. As you can see, it only developed head, cape, wing & tail feathers. After 8 weeks there was no sign of body feathers coming in and the down was getting worn away. You can see one of its clutch-mates in the foreground that was...
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    Hello from Mobile, AL

    Hi! Just joined. Live down in Mobile, AL. Growing up in PA, I raised RIR/Barred Rocks. Had 9 hens and big badazz rooster. Good memories of those birds. After a 28 year absence from chicken keeping, back in spring 2014, we built a small coop. Friends who have a small farm ordered chicks and we...
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