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    That ain't right

    Apparently my wife and I have taken this whole bonding with the hens a step to far. Recently, say the last five or six days, I have been extra busy with indoor chores, and not getting outside till around maybe 9:am or so. Apparently some of my girls don't like that, and have decided to remind me...
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    Rodger the rooster is a mess

    I was having high hopes of Rodger being one of those good roosters. Lately however I am beginning to have reservations. I first thought he was taking advantage of Miss Ruby waaayto much. Then I remembered, every male of every poultry species seems to have a thing for Ruby. Then I read a good...
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    New eggs

    My younger hens are starting to lay. What do most BYC folk do with the tiny misshapen eggs? Dy'all just mix them in with a good egg and eat them. The one I got last evening was maybe as big as a golf ball and almost perfectly round. Oops forgot to mention these eggs are from either Orpington or...
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    Guess my breed

    Here are the remaining four of six chicks, that hatched from the twelve eggs my neighbor brought up when Maleficent went broody. I am guessing the white one is Lavender Orpington, since the only white or lite colored chickens he has are Lavender Orpington. I have no ideal what the black ones...
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    Maleficent lives up to her name

    I named SpeclSpe Sussex hens Maleficent and Cruella because they were especially mean and cruel to all but one of my other five hens. Mal was so ruthless she would literally run across the pasture to attach my line, and sweet Easter Egger. I had even told my Better Half that I was contemplating...
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    WTH is that?

    WTH is that? This is what I found in my nest box. The two smaller eggs are what I get every day. And no that is not trick photography. It is literally twice as big at least. Also, do chickens sometimes lay eggs with different hues of say brown eggs?
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    Where'd everyone go?

    Anyone but me have trouble with their Backyard chickens website? For some reason the BYC icon disappeared from my homepage. Couldn't find it anywhere on my phone. When I tried to redo it I got some different looking web page and icon that would not open, or download. I finally gave up, but now...
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    My baby is becoming a man

    Was seeing my wife off to work this morning when my 20 week old lovey-dovey Brahma cockeral decided to crow for the first time. Not sure which was more funny; Rodger's first crow or how excited my wife and I both were.
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    Blind baby chick

    Anybody deal with born blind chicks? I have a week old chick that I am strongly thinking may be blind. My problem is my wife has now tried to rescue the baby instead of allowing nature to run its course. I see no real future for this bird that does not involve him and myself inextricably joined...
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    Something different every day

    Maleficent just finished hatching five of the eleven eggs we put under her when she went broody. Four hatched a day ahead of schedule and one two days later. Day four she led led outside. I immediately noticed the late bloomer was by herself while momma and Ruby one of my older hens were...
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    New chicks hen hatched

    I sure am grateful for BYC and all the advice. One of my 18 month old Wyandottes went brokdb few weeks ago. So I grabbed a dozen eggs from my neighbor to shove under her. Not sure how many were possibly fertile, but he has three hens that came with the rooster, and I tried to grab their eggs. I...
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    Common core chicken math?

    Bad week for chicken math. Lost two more birds this week. One was a very sweet very old lady named Goldie. Can't say it wasn't expected exactly. But I guess your never really ready. She just roosted under my chair when I sat down for a lunch break. Bout an hour later I noticed she was dead. Had...
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    Murder mystery .

    Let my older gals out to free range yesterday about 10:am. Everybody was alert and active about 10:30 or a bit later when I left to run errands. My wife texts me around 12: noon to tell me one of the Evil Twins is dead. A perfectly healthy appearing and acting 15 month old Wyandotte. Wife was in...
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    Roosters or not

    My 10 or 12 week old Brahmas and BO have never been on a roost. Last week I added approximately 12' to the length of the run they are in. And i put a roost bar 12" off the ground in one end. Six or seven days and at night they still squat in a corner in the chips. They seem to be exstatic over...
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    General breed question, Brahmas

    InIs this the normal growth rate? Or did someone play a little loose with the term "day old chicks"? Orpington pulletts with two Brahma pulletts and one Brahma cockeral. The Orpington pulletts are twice as big at 10 or 11 weeks.
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    Egg tiefs, or plastic lures....

    Someone keeps tiefing my golf balls, out of the nesting boxes. Has anyone tried those leftover plastic Easter eggs to coax hens to lay in the box?
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    Fencing in the chickens

    My better half got the scare today. Turned the ladies out 6:am this morning as usual, but today both the wife and I had to leave to get some bidneth taken care of. Few hours later we pull in the drive and the chickens, that would normally come running to meet my wife's truck, were nowhere to be...
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    Lessons learned

    What was the hardest lesson you were taught or had to learn in your first year of raising backyard chickens? I have been very blessed so mine was learning that giving them snacks everytime they came around wanting it, was probably not really helping either of us.
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    Evil twins making it unsafe for sweet loner

    I have three older hens two three and four years of age, and added two Wyandotte sisters last year. The wyandottes, or evil twins as we call them, seem it have a huge hatred for my Easter Egger Miss Penny. Not only do they bully her in the coop or at any feeding, but will literally run the fifty...
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    What a pest

    Any suggestions short of building a new fence to keep my neighbors sack from molesting my RIR hen? I run him off whenever I see him. I wouldn't even care if he was a serial rapist, I have nine nine hens. But daaang he is wearing the one hen out. I thought she had some kind of disease. Then I...
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