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    In Yuba City, CA Please help me if you can!!!

    I have a strange problem and really hope that there is someone close to me that can help me out. I work in a local elementary school in Yuba City and every year our kindergarten classes hatch chickens for our open house. This is actually what started my love of chickens and led to my current and...
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    It takes a village :)

    SO, for the past month and a half I have been going absolutely CRAZY with my broody hens. Four out of my five have decided to go broody (it doesn't help that I own particularly broody breeds, 2 sizzles, 1 serama, 1 cochin) The problem I was having was that they are way attached to each other...
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    Are you my mother????? Please help me!!

    I think that I am slowly discovering why people have separate pens for chickens of different breeds! ACK!! My chicks are hatching and while it really doesn't matter for anyone but me what the crosses are that they come from I find that I am slowly driving myself crazy trying to figure out who...
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    When you don't know when eggs are due to hatch???!!!

    I have gotten myself into a bit of a mess… I have several eggs in the incubator and I have absolutely no idea when they are supposed to hatch. Obviously I can narrow it down to a 21 day window. but besides that, I'm fairly clueless. How did this happen, you ask? I have 3 broody hens...
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    I'm a failure as a chicken mom :)

    I recently built a real rough temporary run on the side of my coop for my chickens to have some outdoor time in during the day due to my roosters loud mouth issues. I started letting them go out in it Monday and all of them were in the coop when I went out to feed at night Monday, Tuesday and...
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    What is my Polish?

    Can anyone help me tell the sex of my polish chick? I think I am trending towards a cockerel but kind of thought some more opinions would be nice. Here he/she is.
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    Any help would be awesome!!! My silkies and sizzles are making me nuts

    I swear, just when I decide one of these guys is a gal, I decide it's a guy... or vice versa! Hopefully some of you byc'ers can help me out! The white silkies and the cochin are the youngest... (born Last week in June) The buff silkie and the two sizzles are about six weeks older. This guy...
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    Have to rehome my rooster! :( Should I send along his girlfriend??

    I have recently come to accept, (like this morning after the 3 hours of constant crowing at the garbage trucks!) that I will have to take up my husband's friend's generous offer to take my favorite rooster off of my hands for me. He has no rooster restrictions where he lives and has recently...
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    What does this Roo look like to you?EDIT:PIC ADDED

    This guy is my favorite little guy, Fromes (named by my 12 yr old son) I know what he is supposed to be but am interested in what he looks like to you guys. Any opinions? Maybe a better view...
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    Really frustrated!!! Email from breeder...

    I'm feeling frustrated over this situation with some chicks I purchased from a silkie breeder in my area and am looking for some input from all of you. On July 5th, I took my 3 daughters to pick out some chicks from a breeder that's about an hour away from where we are. We ended up taking home 6...
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    Best deal ever on lumber :) that I've seen anyway...

    I was having the hardest time getting my coop done, mostly due to lack of funds to buy lumber. I was going to Home Depot and Lowe's, alternating between the two stores every couple days (they are right across the street from each other) and buying a 2x4 or a couple of 1x3's, etc... In the...
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    My silkie is sad :( Cage mate died and I NEED HELP!!!

    Yesterday morning I woke up to discover that my tiny Serama had died. I wasn't too surprised because this was the little girl I had been trying so hard to get weight on and she had just barely hit 2 ounces at 11 weeks. But I was still heartbroken, along with my girls who were really attached. I...
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    We finally hit 2 ounces!!! At 10 weeks! EDITED WITH PICS!!!

    I am so proud of my little serama chick I couldn't help myself! I had to post somewhere about it... I have been waiting forever for this little chick to hit the 2 oz mark...don't know why 2 ozs is so important to me but for some reason it was a magic number in my head. I weigh him/her every...
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    What on earth did I just do to my chicks eye?

    I have a 9 week old chick that has had an issue with his right eye off and on since hatching. It would get crusty and I rinse it out then it's fine for a few days, then we seem to repeat it over again. I noticed it getting worse the past couple of days and tonight when I went to cover the coop...
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    Why I love raising chicks (and the odd duck ) ;)

    There are some things that words just can't adequately express... My daughter (on the left) and her friend "playing" with one of the chicks we hatched in my after school kindergarten class! The poor chick was so patient!! One of the 3 ducks we hatched walking the kids to lunch with their...
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    I think I just got a warning :)

    I have two cats, one is a Maine Coon and the other is a Bengal... While my Maine Coon is pretty much a big ball of lazy fur, the bengal is the exact opposite! He is sleek, muscular and hunts constantly! We live up against open fields and have no neighbors behind us so it has never been a huge...
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    What oh what could we be?

    I realize these are not great pictures (I had a little help from my 9 yr old! ) but can anyone guess breed or gender of any of my chicks from them? The smallest bird is a serama. The other black and white one was supposed to be and I swear hatched out of the same exact type of shell from the...
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    My husband said what???

    On Saturday one of my lovely children hadn't been taught how to shut the door to the "coop" properly and one of the chicks got out. My husband's 90 lb black lab, Shasta immediately retrieved the chick and brought it to my husband who was all the way on the other side of the yard... (this dog has...
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    Should I get another silkie?

    Right now I have 5 chicks, which is 5 more than I was ever going to have but we all know how that works!! I hatched them in my class at school and became attached to 5 chicks so I of course had to keep them! I think that I have a bit of a problem though... I have an EE, 3 seramas (well one of...
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    Can they stay outside??

    I'm starting to think I should just change my name to paranoid chicken girl... but I have another question for everyone. I finished my temporary outside home for my 5 chickens today, ( I hesitate to call it a coop because, well, it is kind of scary ) Anyway, finished it today and put my chicks...
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