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  1. Baumshell28

    12 Laying Hens-Gonzales, Louisiana

    $100.00- 7 Barred Rocks & 5 Golden Comets (All 1 1/2 years old & consistently lay 8-12 brown eggs daily). My disability, health and fatigue has become an issue since battling COVID in September. The price includes any feed, bedding (shavings), and misc items. I’m attaching some pics, but you can...
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    Please tell me this is ANYTHING except mites or other bugs...

    So, I have one out of 12 girls that has an area on her chest where lots of the big “red” feathers have been pulled/picked/pecked out, leaving just the underlying down. As I sat & watched, I saw her pecking & preening the area & I saw one of my Barred Rocks (she’s the bully) peck at the area as...
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    Toxic to chickens??? Tried finding answers elsewhere...

    So, I usually plant totally chicken friendly plants outside the front of their run to give them a treat & brighten up the yard...plus, I totally benefit from the herb garden too! BUT...there’s this one shady, pretty wet corner where the run fence and the chainlink yard fence meet at a tree...
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    Kitchen cabinet upcycle...???

    I want a raised planter box for an herb garden. I’ve been stressing over how I would go about building one myself. Some things get hard & complicated since I’m wheelchair bound. I can’t afford anything online...even used ones! As I was internet surfing for ANY way to do this, I realized that...
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    Hard freeze in Louisiana...almost less than yearly occurrence...

    So right now in Louisiana we are having a week or so with some hard freezes. This basically only happened because someone, somewhere around here said something like, “Louisiana never/rarely gets snow or hard freezes...” Well, from their mouths to Gods ears, and the rest is history! We made a few...
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    Covering chicken run with vines??

    I live in Louisiana and my chicken run is 100% enclosed in one type of metal fencing or another (2” x 4” fencing, some chicken wire & some hardware cloth). There are some wild vines already growing on the fencing. Also, one side has wild blackberry vines. I’d like to encourage more blackberries...
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    No pests here...designated dust bath poll:

    Want to start every day the clean way? Make a morning spa routine like these ladies!
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    Mutts...?

    I see a lot of “what breed is this?” posts. This is my first year keeping chickens. I don’t have a rooster and do not plan on breeding. But seeing so many of these posts and so many “adopted” chicks coming from another chicken keeper and not knowing breed, or breeding, backstories has made me...
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    Poop Board...FINALLY!!!

    Maybe a couple weeks ago, my parents helped me reconfigure the old coop. Took out all the old “things” the previous owners built (yes, even the girls favorite old nest box!), and transformed the coop space from mostly wasted to mostly usable & practical. Same door still on same wall. Same pop...
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    Not Thin Shelled...Shell LESS

    I have 12 hens who’ve been laying since about mid August. The egg laying is pretty consistent...11eggs a day. I don’t expect 12 daily since I know the laying cycle is usually greater than 24 hours. The other day was the same...kinda...I got 11 eggs in shells and one egg without a shell or...
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    FINALLY got one on video!!!!

    Y’all just don’t know how long I’ve been trying to catch these on video! First one is the Egg Laying. Second one is the Egg Song to let the other ladies know she accomplished her goal and is coming back out to the flock.
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    Too much Calcium?

    All my hens lay beautiful brown eggs of varying sizes, shades, color patterns, etc. But I have 2 concerns...both are of the type, “Does this mean excess, or too much calcium?”: 1.) Some eggs are so light brown that they are almost pink... 2.) One of my hens, Sugar, lays eggs that are completely...
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    Who is teaching who around here?!?

    So, as y’all know, my girls started laying last month. I don’t care what the species is...you put 12 females together, you will end up with drama! First, all 12 would only use the OLD original wooden nest box that is original to the coop, wouldn’t even look inside the 3 expensive plastic boxes I...
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    At least check them out!

    Here’s my issue: my coop is original to this property and there is 1 wooden nest box original to the coop. I have 12 hens, so I ordered 3 plastic nesting boxes giving them access to 4 nesting boxes total. I installed the plastic boxes WEEKS before they ever got to POL just so they’d be...
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    So, this happened this morning.....

    Please tell me that’s just “A spot” that means nothing, and not “The spot” that means it’s been fertilized....(Pic 1 & 2) The last pic is just a shot of all 5 of the eggs from this week...my “Thousand Dollar Eggs”! Yes people, count the egg shell halves, I DID say Five eggs! Both of the first...
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    Dual Purpose AFTER Laying?

    So, I bought my chickens for “Purpose”. As Barred Rocks and Golden Comets were both said to be Dual Purpose. I figured after they retired from their egg laying purpose, then I could use them to fulfill that last purpose. I’m not so determined for the meat, to buy actual meat birds. I’ve read...
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    One Heckuva Week!

    First: Fowl Pox...at least 7 out of my 12 girls so far. Second/Now/Today: OUR FIRST TWO EGGS!!!!! My head hurts from the manic, mental Happy Dance, Pahahaha! :wee
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    Care to share???

    Has anyone here used this waterer? Care to share your honest opinions and/or thoughts about it?
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    Anyone use essential oil on their flock???

    So I thought some of my hens were being bullied when I saw scabs on their combs & wattles. I chocked it up to the raging hormones of all 12 hens being 17 weeks old and getting to POL. But when I went out this afternoon to bring treats & have our Quality Time, I realized I was wrong. Just since...
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    Rub-A-Dub-Dub, 12 hens in their new tub!

    So, as the girls have been growing, so have their dust bath tubs...paint roller tray in the brooder, cement mixing tub in the coop. Now that they’ve hit the 16 week mark and I’m confident that they don’t have much, if any, actual “growing” to do, I decided it was time for me to give them a...
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