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    Problems with Broodiness - any ideas or thoughts?

    Hello Friends, I've had lots of broodiness this spring and now into the summer. I usually have been taking the brooders out and putting them into the small coop on 'lock down' with water and food for 2-3 days which seems to 'cure' them. However, I've had 2-3 hens that just seem to go back to...
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    Broody hens issue - or is it?

    Hello friends, I've had four broody hens this spring, first year hens. One I helped by locking in the smaller coop and she stopped after a couple days. Then, two more started brooding, then another, like it's spreading among the girls. I take them out often and lock in the smaller coop but I...
  3. Kakaruk

    Okay, so the new girls started laying and it's only January! They are going to be producers people!

    The new girls are laying, in January! Good job girls, keep it coming!
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    Moved the chicks into the small coop, raising the roof on the large coop!

    I have moved the 4-5 week old chicks into the small coop and am raising the roof on the large coop to 6 feet 6 inches! It's in progress.....
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    On Day 3 of Incubation!!!!!

    Hi friends, I have a new Hova Bator 2370 incubator and 25 fertilized eggs from Meyer Hatchery. We are not sponsored by either one of those. We are on day 3. Oh, 1 Olive Egger (I guess they didn't have 4), 4 Rhode Island Red, 4 Barred Plymouth Rock, 4 Salmon Faverolles, 12 Black Sumatran
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    I just got a NovaBator incubator and plan a new hatch soon!

    More details coming, I'm excited! I lost my flock last summer with a racoon massacre and ready now to go now with a new hatch. I'm getting ready to get some fertilized eggs..... Updates to follow friends.
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    Ok, so I have sad news for the BackYard Chicken community...... Racoon massacre!

    Hello friends, I see I am not alone as there are other posts of similar massacres...... I have two inch chicken wire all around my chicken run and sealed bottoms as well along the fence line. However, we have a tree with multiple branches going up and I stapled the wire around those. It was...
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    Hi, how cold is too cold to keep baby chicks outside without a heat lamp? Under 75 F?

    Does it have to be 75 F or over to keep baby chicks outside without a heat lamp? Some nights it's still getting down to about 50 or so, then it warms up into the 70s during the day.
  9. Kakaruk

    Elongated Fairy Egg - Any Thoughts? This is when she stopped laying.

    So I got this elongated fairy egg. Anyone ever seen one like this? This hen has been a great layer for about 3-4 years, she did molt once. She laid eggs even through the winter. Then this spring, one day she laid a normal fairy egg, then this elongated fairy egg, then she's stopped laying...
  10. Kakaruk

    Giving too many eggs to a broody hen....... stops her brooding?

    My Buff Orpington was brooding again this spring. Last year she did it more than once, and I put her in a separate little coop to get her to stop. Just last week she was brooding and I set 12 fertilized eggs under her, she stopped brooding! Has anyone ever experienced this? I don't know. I...
  11. Kakaruk

    My oldest chicken died in the cold snap.....

    Hello, Not looking for sympathy but just sharing the story........ My oldest chicken, White Rhode Island, must have been at least 5-6 died when the cold snap came, below freezing. We had all the signs she was dying for months but when the cold came, I think she couldn't get up the perch and...
  12. Kakaruk

    We left the chicken run door open last night.......

    So, we accidentally left the chicken run door wide open last night! I know, it seems unusual, but we have children and between trying to feed them, get them in bed, washing up, etc. we simply forgot the girls were out until sundown. I always leave the coop door open, inside the run, which is...
  13. Kakaruk

    How can you tell if a chicken is dying of old age?

    Hi, we have a Rhode Island White chicken the kids named 'Courmand' after the chef on Wild Kratts........ The last year or so she's had more white/gray in her face area and was still laying through this season but her eggs were thin shelled. Now she does not appear to be laying really but the...
  14. Kakaruk

    Hello, I'm thinking of creating some 'Chicken Merch' - are we allowed to provide links on this website?

    Hello, Are merchandise links allowed on BackYard Chickens? I am planning on creating some merch, like T-shirts, stickers, and a few things like that. It would be very organic from me and my family. Just checking. Kakaruk - MB in Austin, TX
  15. Kakaruk

    USDA monitoring this forum?

    Hello forum friends, I know this is random, but I wonder if any of you are aware of folks from the USDA looking at or being involved with this website at all? I'm not trying to be all 'conspiracy theory' sounding. However, I got a phone call today from a person at the USDA and I live very far...
  16. Kakaruk

    Below 20 Degrees - any advice?

    Hello friends, Please don't laugh at me for this, but I live in Central Texas (12 years actually) and have never experienced what is coming to us soon - under 20 degree weather! I also have kept chickens for years but never in cold conditions. For example, I used to live in New Guinea...
  17. Kakaruk

    Ideas on selling eggs? Less work.....

    Hello, I have 14 hens right now, laying lots of eggs, around 4 dozen or so a week. I was selling at the local feed store but there's a glut in the market there. The eggs are not selling. Any ideas on EASY solutions to selling eggs without using craigslist, etc.?
  18. Kakaruk

    Hens still going into laying boxes at night!

    Hi, my hens are still going into the laying boxes in the evening. I've put a cardboard barrier in front every night for a few months (I have to remove it in the morning and put it back at night), it's getting old. I have to go in the eve and shoosh them out of the of the laying boxes and put...
  19. Kakaruk

    Does leg color relate to egg shell color?

    Hello friends, Does leg color of hens relate to egg shell color? I have a leghorn mix with mostly 'white' legs and lays white eggs. I have lots of other hens with 'off white' legs that lay brown eggs. I have several 'Olive Eggers' with gray legs that lay green eggs. Is there any correlation...
  20. Kakaruk

    Should I stain my new roosts? Pine

    Hi, Because I had a few hens sleeping in the laying boxes, and after hearing from some of you too, I am replacing my 1 inch round/pole roost posts with the 2 x 4 approach. I think the round 1 inch (which came with the coop when I bought it) are just too small and the hens are less comfortable...
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