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  1. ChickieChickieMama

    Found the Most AMAZING Egg in the Nesting Box Today!!

    The other day one of my very young Welsummer pullets (14 weeks) started singing the egg song, but no eggs. Today I heard her again from inside the house so I ran out to the coop...only to discover THIS: That's right...look at that gorgeous huge blue sparkly egg!! The top two on the left...
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    There Are Two Kinds of Cockerels...

    The kind who would drag a hunk of watermelon nearly as big as he is across the yard so he can blissfully devour it... ...and the kind who would strut like the king he is amongst his grateful ladies! Well played, Armand...you may be Roo#2 for now, but you are WAY smarter than you look!
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    14 Week Pullet Singing the Egg Song

    Tonight as I was getting ready to lock up my chickens for the night my 14 week old Welsummer pullet jumped on top of the (empty) ensuite brooder/segregation suite and began belting out the Egg Song! (She is named Celine so I guess I knew she'd have a strong voice!) At present, I only have two...
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    Testing Out the New Chicken Swing!

    I finally got around to putting up a swing in the run for my flock. They spent all day purposefully avoiding it until finally my little Mille Fleur D'uccle rooster decided to test it out for his ladies! I also have THE CUTEST video, but I can't figure out how to get it to embed properly. :hmm
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    My Salmon Faverolles Pullet is Black - Help Me Understand the Genetics

    I have a darling little 13 week old Salmon Faverolles pullet whose peculiar colouring has been keeping me up at night, researching her genetics. If it was just her, I would put it aside as a bad breeding fluke, but the more I've talked about her online the more similar SF pullets I've...
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    Bald Spot on Pullet's Back...Pecked? Mites?

    I discovered a big patch of missing feathers on the bottom half of my pullet's back this evening. The skin isn't torn and there is no swelling or bruising, but a number of feathers around the area have also been damaged, mostly at their tips. Here she is on my lap with her wings spread a little...
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    I Think This Chick is Mixed With Human....

    I can't even do my eyeliner that well! :gig
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    What Will Babette Lay Today?!

    So, it seems I have a creative little lady in my flock, who likes to paint her eggs a little differently each day! Babette is a sweet Golden Comet, who started laying at 16.5 weeks old and has layed an egg a day more or less ever since. Babette's eggs have ranged from xl to tiny, rich brown...
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    Calcium Deposits on New Layers Eggs

    My beautiful Babette has started laying eggs as pretty as she is - they are a dusty rose colour with millions of miniscule white Speckles covering them. She just started laying last week, and her first egg was a more typical brown for her breed (Golden Comet). She then took a few days off before...
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    Is My Salmon Faverolles a Roo or Just a Strange Color??

    I got this little darling from Ideal approximately nine weeks ago with a big handpicked mix of pretty pullets. Of course, she's been my baby from the start, incredibly friendly and cuddly, which I have heard is typical of the breed. But this isn't my first rodeo and I know now that sadly it...
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    Clingy Newly Laying Hens

    So yesterday was the happiest day of my chicken rearing life when I found our first two eggs in the laying boxes! :wee Before this, my two Golden Comet sisters had become increasingly interested in me which I know is a sign they're close to POL. Now they are suddenly super clingy and want to do...
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    We have our FIRST EGGS!!!!

    This morning, Babette laid her first egg. It's the one on the left and is slightly larger and speckled!! Then, a few hours later, her sister Lucille laid her first egg! It's the darker, smaller one on the right. I'm so proud of my lovely ladies! I KNEW it was going to happen today! They are...
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    San Jose CA- Silkie, Polish, Cochin, Leghorn, Welsummer Cockerels

    I've chickened out of keeping a bachelor pad for my accidental roosters, so I'm now looking for homes for some different juvenile cockerels: Hatched March 27: Two unknown cockerels, presumed to be one Brown Leghorn and one Welsummer (were sold as Welsummer Pullets); Cinnamon Buff Standard...
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    Pretty Pullets? My Easter Eggers at 9.5 weeks

    Laverne (the darker lavender headed one) and Opal (the lighter one) will be 10 weeks old on Tuesday. I haven't seen many other EE's with their colouring so I'm not sure what to look for, but so far they both have minimal colouring and development in their combs. They are inseparable and though...
  15. ChickieChickieMama

    I Made A Silkie!!!

    So, Crazy Chicken Lady that I am, I'm trying to stop myself from collecting even more adorable chickies....so yesterday I crocheted myself an adorable Silkie to cuddle! I made up the pattern as I went along, and I had a very limited amount of specialty yarn on hand so I couldn't make her quite...
  16. ChickieChickieMama

    That is One Brave Hen!

    She's such a tease!! ;)
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    Could this Bantam Cochin Possibly be a Pullet??

    So after buying five sexed pullets and three bantam SR chicks from TSC 14 weeks ago, I now have two Golden Comet pullets, five cockerels and this darling black bantam Cochin who I can't figure out. I also have another 17 younger pullets and one younger presumed cockerel who isn't crowing yet...
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    Gorgeous Young Cinnamon Buff Cochin Cockerel - San Jose California

    Fez will be 14 weeks old on Tuesday and is a gorgeous dark cinnamon buff cochin. His feather colouring is quite solid with no undesirable patches of white, and he has beautiful full feathering down his legs and feet. He's been great so far with humans including my two toddlers who help with...
  19. ChickieChickieMama

    New Babies "on the Farm"!

    This is the largest mixed crew of chicks I've raised so I snapped some pics to (attempt to) keep track of them! It was also my first time with mail order chicks (one poor darling didn't make it to me) but they're all doing great a week later! Hilde, Norwegian Jaerhon Vivienne, Gold Brabanter...
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    5 Week Polish with Red Wattles = Definite Roo??

    I'm new to polish chicks and I've heard they're notoriously hard to sex, especially at a young age, but my splash polish chick has developed some huge red wattles already. For contrast, my wcb that's the same age doesn't have any at all! From the start I felt that this one was a little roo! Is...
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