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    No Eggs Whatsoever

    Greetings, all you chicken experts My problem is that we have gotten no eggs whatsoever in about six weeks. We have three chickens (two Australorps and a Wynandotte) (we used to have four, but our Rhode Island Red went missing one day, alas) and we live in upstate-ish NY (where it gets cold...
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    Funny Chicken story

    Here's a funny chicken story (is there any other kind)? So, we've had snow recently, and only one of our four is bold enough to venture out, and we saw scratching under the trampoline where there are still leaves and such exposed. Night falls; I go out and close up the coop. The next...
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    First egg!

    This morning, our Rhode Island Red was making all sorts of strange noises, and we came down to find her lying in the eggbox. We were out for the day, and when we came home, we found her first egg! I posted before and after pictures. The egg tasted great! egg after
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    Chickens gone missing

    I thought for a bit to post this in the 'Emergencies' forum but since everything worked out fine, I figured here is a better place. We're new to chickens, so if this sort of thing is commonplace, please ignore. Yesterday, the chickens had been free-ranging the yard (as they usually do) and the...
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    Re-purposed playset/swing set coop and run

    Just because I'm happy for how it came out, I'll post our (finished?) coop and run. We repurposed our play set into a coop, and our swing set into the frame of a run, and build (most of ) the walls and floors out of pallets. The gap between front and back of the pallet we filled with insulation...
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    Breed AND gender

    We are new to chickens, but about nine weeks, we went to Tractor Supply and got six baby chicks. We asked for three Wyandotte pullets and three Ameracauna pullets. This is what we have. Two of them have black legs, and a different two seem to look like roosters, and I am not all sure what...
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