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    Spring vs. Fall Harvest comparison

    We just harvested and bagged our 2nd batch of Cornish Cross. They were all roosters from Hoover Hatchery. Here is a screenshot of the stats. It is crazy the difference between the two harvests!!!!! A few items of note: In the spring we tried the 12 hours of feed and 12 hours off feed as...
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    Nice black rat snake

    Caught this sucker near the chickens. I'm 5'9" for reference... Relocated to the state park 5 miles up the road. The very next day had another, even bigger, in the coop. I had my hand on him as he was halfway out of a crack, but couldn't keep my grip...
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    First Batch of CornishX

    Looking for input on some of my stats. This was our first ever meat bird batch. Raised in a Suscovich tractor. I was a little bummed at the dressed size, but we did harvest right at 49 days. I would have waited another week but we had a vacation coming and reservations were already made. Poor...
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    Buff Orp/RSL Cross - Roo

    Our Buff Orpington rooster loves taking care of our RedSexLink hens. We had a broody hen so we let her hatch some eggs God's way. One of them turned out to be this MASSIVE and handsome rooster. He is bigger than his daddy by a long shot and only 28 weeks old. (The hen of the same cross is...
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    Diagnosing low production in "big flock"?

    We have 29 hens who have a 1/4-acre pasture that they have full access to every day. Multiple shelters, a couple water stations, and surrounded by trees so there is shade except in the peak of the day. They also have a covered run with food and water. We were gettinga bout 26 eggs per day, with...
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    Horse Stall conversion almost finished

    We bought 5 acres that had an abandoned double horse barn/stall. I have been refurbishing it and converting it to a cop over the past month. The only thing I purchased was new roofing and three wall boards. But it is just about finished... Aiming for 24 hens and 2 roosters 12'x14' coop 28' of...
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    Hen hit by baseball - broken leg

    My boys were playing baseball and our girl was WAY behind them. They missed the catch and the ball hit her and broke her leg. Unfortunate =( I splinted it and bandaged with some antiseptic (though there was no cut/skin break). She is in a cage with food and water now. She is eating, which I...
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    Our "New" Property

    We bought 5.5 acres of land. It came with an old barn with two stalls. Each stall is 12'x12'. There are fence posts making a perimeter that is 125'x50'. Thinking about turning one of those stalls into the space for 24 hens and 2 roosters. Attaching some pics. Any suggestions would be much...
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    Found Eggs - Need Reassurance

    My wife and I found two stashes of eggs totaling 67 eggs! (Pics attached) I need reassurance that we can eat them, here's why: We have 6 hens, but only as of 5 days ago. Prior to that we only had 2 hens. So best case scenario is that all 6 layed every day for the past 5 days, resulting in 30...
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    After 3 years...100% production

    we started with 6 girls. they were not happy and destroyed each other. Diagnosis was boredom and a bit of overcrowding. Got 4 new girls, ditched the small space and now they have 1/4 acre to roam and find many bugs. This is my first week ever of 100% laying. Time to make quiche...
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    Opaque Sac inside egg - What is it?

    I tried a google search, but I didn't know how to be descriptive enough to find the answer. What is it? Here is a picture. A white sac inside the egg when cracked (the broken yolk is due to my 9 year old doing the cracking...)
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    Are my hens starving?

    I have 4 RIR hybrid hens. They are just over a year old and I got them from a much larger farm flock. They are in my fenced back yard with free range of about 1/4 acre. The area is heavily wooded, so grass isn't there. There are some weeds, but mostly english ivy (which they don't eat) and tree...
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    Chickens won't sleep in the coop

    So we have two australorp hens. They have slept in their coop night after night for the past year. Now they don't go in anymore. They actually freak out a little bit and jump out quick if you try to put them in there. BUT... they go in every day and lay in the nesting box in the coop. They just...
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    What Happened? 2 Missing Tails

    Went to check on my 4 girls. Opened the coop and feathers everywhere! (See Pic). There were some feathers in the run as well. But they were all alive, but TWO of my four girls were missing their tail feathers. While the sight seemed traumatic for me, all four of them are acting completely...
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    1 of 4 Laying?!? - Ready to get rid of them!

    I guess this is a "venting" post (pun intended maybe...). I am ready to kick these girls to the curb. 1 egg per day is not worth it. I have 4 Black Australorp hens that are over a year old. Last summer/fall when I had 6, I was getting 5 or 6 eggs per day. Found one hen dead in the coop for no...
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    Prolapsed Vent?

    It looks pretty bad. I bathed her and cleaned her off as best as I could. Some of the yellowish white, hardened/dried material simply will not come off without me feeling like I'm pulling her intestines out. (The pics are before the bath"). I applied hydrocortizone cream, pushed the vent back...
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    Lost our First Hen =(

    Came out this morning and one of our six girls was dead. No real warning signs, and no external signs of trauma. The 6 of them seemed healthy. They were out running and scratching yesterday (first time in a few days of heavy rain). We have been getting about 4 eggs per day out of the six of...
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    Not laying in box - next level ideas?

    6 Australorps, all laying Coop size is ~30sq.ft. With two 12x12x12 nesting boxes with clean pine shavings Coop also has pine shavings and is pretty clean about 6-8 inches deep Covered run is 40sq.ft. And they roam 1/3 acre about 5 hours per day. Laying is fine, but 4 of them REFUSE to lay in...
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    Shell-less egg broken before laying

    1st pic is what my wife pulled out of the vent. 2nd is a bad attempt to get the whole thing... Have 6 Australorps about 24 weeks. Three are laying thus far. Arrived home and went to let them out of the run and one had something protruding out of her vent. It looks like a shell-less egg that...
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    Angry neighbor - clipping wings coming

    Our angry neighbor came over today. Just ONE DAY after our brand new fence installed, two birds got out (somehow). The neighbor proceeded to tell me every chicken law, which am following...except I let them out in the back yard...our county says max 6 birds must stay in a run of no more than 40...
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