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  1. LadyWoodsong

    Yes or no? Separate mama hen and chicks from rest of flock?

    I would like your advice and experience on whether to separate a mama hen and her chicks from the rest of the flock.... Her eggs should be hatching on or around June 5th. This is my first time having a broody and hatching eggs. Will mama protect her babies? Have you ever just let your mama...
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    Greenish/darkish egg yolk (raw, not boiled and fresh not rotten!)

    Yesterday I went to make something and I cracked open two eggs and both yolks were an odd greenish/darkish color. They were fresh eggs, I gather eggs each day. I smelled it and it smelled fine. This was not a rotten egg. I threw them away and I cracked open two more eggs of which were also...
  3. LadyWoodsong

    Molting or what?

    Could a 9 month old hen be molting? Would a hen's comb and wattles look very drab colored while molting? I have a Black Star hen that doesn't look well. Her feathers around her neck look very shabby looking and her comb and wattles are not a nice bright red like the rest of them. She looks...
  4. LadyWoodsong

    My first time: chicken looking/acting strange....

    I've had my chickens since April this year (I am a first-time chicken owner). Haven't had any problems with them at all up until now. I have 12 Black Stars and three bantys. One of my Black Stars keeps shaking it's head, the feathers around it's neck are looking really scruffy looking, maybe...
  5. LadyWoodsong

    Should I get a rooster?

    Currently I have 15 hens. Twelve are Black Stars and three are bantams. I have never had a rooster but have always wanted to have one. I wouldn't be getting one now while going into winter, but perhaps next spring. Should I? Or shouldn't I? Why or why not? I've heard of people...
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    Needing some thoughts on "bad eggs" (people, in this case)

    My sister and her husband befriended some people that gave me the heebie-jeebies. They wouldn't listen to me, of course. These people were having to get out of the place they "bought" (foreclosure perhaps? or sheriff's sale? not sure) since they hadn't been making payments on it. They asked...
  7. LadyWoodsong

    Asian Beetles

    Do guineas eat asian beetles?
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    Asian Beetles

    Do geese eat asian beetles?
  9. LadyWoodsong

    Asian Beetles

    Will ducks eat Asian beetles?
  10. LadyWoodsong

    Scaly leg mites or old ugly,crusty legs?

    Sorry for the rant.
  11. LadyWoodsong

    Showing off my hubby's hard work

    We moved to an acreage 1 1/2 yrs. ago and I knew that once we got out here I'd want chickens. However, there were no good buildings to use, so we found out about an old building and chicken equipment that someone wanted to get rid of for $150 for everything. We had the building moved to our...
  12. LadyWoodsong

    Greetings from Iowa

    I've been here for a bit but never made it in here to make a "proper" introduction. I got my very first chickens in April of this year and they just started laying about two weeks ago. They are Black Stars or what the farm store called, "brown egg layers". I like the name "Black Stars"...
  13. LadyWoodsong

    Do Black Stars get broody?

    Do they? I have some that are about 5-5 1/2 months old and are just starting to lay.
  14. LadyWoodsong

    Discovered something interesting when I fried three eggs today.

    I got my very first eggs about one week ago, this morning I had about a half dozen. I decided to fry three of them for breakfast. All three of them were double-yolks. I'm new to this, so perhaps that's not that unusual. I have heard of double yolks before, but it just seemed kind of weird to...
  15. LadyWoodsong

    Roosting issues

    I have a small flock of 12 chickens. They are about 4 months old. I have a roost for them in their coop that is about 3-3 1/2 feet off the floor, but they don't use it. Instead they like to roost on top of a set of nesting boxes that have a flat top. The top of the nesting boxes is...
  16. LadyWoodsong

    Little chicken ladder?

    We recently put our 12 young pullets into a chicken house we had to do a lot of work on to get it livable. It already had a "roost" in there (a 2x4, narrow side facing up). It is approximately 3 1/2 feet off of the ground and my chickens are only about 12 weeks old. Do I need to have one of...
  17. LadyWoodsong

    Young chickens perching on us?

    I am new here and new to having chickens. We have 12 young chicks (well, they're probably about 2 months old now, I guess....) and when myself and my two young sons went out to check on them tonight (it would have been early evening, about 7:30 pm), the chicks seemed very friendly toward us...
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