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    Dust Bath photos

    Do you have photos of your birds taking a dust bath? This was their first bath after being in most of the winter. Mother's Day, what could have been a better choice? Here they are all running for their bath. Yes, that's snow around my garden box. In May, for Pete's sake.
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    Which photos made the 2013 calendar?

    I see it is ready for ordering on the store page. Are the chosen photos posted anywhere or is it a surprise?
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    My goodness, every hen laid an egg today

    This is a first here - fourteen very young hens laid fourteen eggs today! I'm bowled over! It was about 20 degrees here, but I let them outside for an hour and they all flopped down to take a dust bath before wanting to return to the coop where it was around forty degrees. What a sight, all...
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    First free range day

    From safe, happy lap sitters to mistrust of an open door to full speed ahead in deep grass. What a life.
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    like picture of rooster saddle feathers

    I hear about saddle feathers, but don't know where they are exactly or what they look like. Will someone please post a photo?
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    Personality change when they begin to lay?

    Do chickens go through a wild adolescence? Do they act differently when they start laying?
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    Adolescent females

    What a weird sound came out of a 12-week Australorp last week - thought it had a digestive problem and was watching it closely for illness. Now there is far less peeping from the 3 month girls, and the beginning of what will evolve into clucking. Do they ever sound odd right now. When they...
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    friendliest (or not) ages of your chicks/hens?

    Have you noticed ages when your young birds were least happy with being picked up or not wanting company? Did they get over it at some age? Did the beginning of squatting change personalities? Inquiring minds want to know.
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    lap sitting chickens

    Please post photos of your chickens sitting on laps. Only seven can now fit on my outstretched legs (atop old shirt for cleanliness of lap provider). These were the first comers.
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    Adopt a hen program & get eggs in return

    Just read a flier from a farmer who lets you adopt one of his hens but they stay on the farm. You can even name it. He charges $36 for the twelve dozen eggs over a twelve week period. It's a new wrinkle on CSAs, Community Supported Agriculture. Small farmers often do that with produce - you pay...
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    starting clicker training with chicks

    The chicks are about seven weeks old, so I'm sitting on the coop floor with a clicker and tiny cup of scratch. The very first step is teaching them that a click means food. It involves repetition over a number of sessions as they are afraid of the cup, of the click, of me, of coming close. About...
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    how quickly they grow

    The chicks at two weeks and then two Silver Wyandottes at six weeks. They all fall asleep on my lap and are well on their way to becoming pets as well as future brown egg layers. So far so good! Look what appeared in the woods - it's a Chukar Partridge which stayed around for food and water a...
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    post office just called with chick arrival -

    No, they haven't been picked up yet as they just called, but Cackle hatchery got them here in 1 1/2 days from Missouri to Alaska. I think they have a good chance of being alive and well. I'm getting 3 breeds, five each of silver Wyandotte, Astralorps, and Buff orpingtons.
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    Gus the dancing rooster

    this is a uTube video of a friend's rooster dancing the wattle dance. Hey STAN, check me out!
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    cooped up six or seven months

    Our climate is too cold for the pop door to be opened for at least six months a year. Currently, I'm without chickens, but it is chick season and the question arises whether or not to buy some six or seven chicks and begin again. The indoor dimensions of the coop are 7' x 9' and yes there is...
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    gave flock to new home

    My mixed flock never stopped picking on each other - featherless neck, above the tail, under the tail; chasing hard, etc. I tried everything. So, a nice chicken lady took all seven girls yesterday. She has roosters which I do not. That alone, along with learning a new pecking order with...
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    birds picking feathers - each one teach one?

    I notice that when a bird decides to jerk feathers out of another's neck, that bird submits. I want it to kick the stuffings out of the perpetrator, darn it. I think they learn it from each other because there are a number of birds doing this - that and picking/pecking around the tail. Then...
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    what does your vet charge?

    I had a chicken put down by the vet and the bill was $90.00 which seems very high. Anyone else want to chime in?
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    Queenie in her apron

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    she picks back bald

    My hen has a bald patch about 2" x 3" on her back near where her tail feathers grow. It bothers her and she interrupts feeding to peck at it. All the new pinfeathers which were there are gone. I put on Pick no More on it, but she eats it off right away. I dusted her with DE and a pyrethium...
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