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    Wanting to add more chicks when I really don't need them...but want them

    I am putting it straight out there.... I am looking for approval of my chicken addition. I currently have 6 hens ranging from 2 - 6 years old. I thought I was losing one about a week ago and decided to order 3 chicks. Thankfully, my girl recovered just fine (YAY) and I am expecting the chicks in...
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    2 yr old hen suddenly stopped laying, isn't broody

    I have four hens all raised together and one, a production red, has stopped laying. She is not broody, in that she isn't spending any unusual time in the nest box or anywhere else. She acts completely fine. She still goes regularly to the nest box, sits for a normal amount of time, many times...
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    Stuck in the chicken coop - literally!

    I'm not sure I am posting this in the right spot, but I have a story that I know really only "chicken people" will relate to... if there were only a video camera on my experience. So, the other morning I woke at 7:15 to the sound of one of my pullets doing the "egg song" and remembered I had...
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    Do cockerels ever do the "squat" thing?

    So I have 4 pullets - three have started laying and of course the one I have worried the most about being male has not. S(he) is just 23 wks this week and to the best of my knowlegde is sex-linked which should cause me to have no concern about her gender. Although a well-educated scientist, I am...
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    Help - Newly laying hen - egg binding?

    My RIR has been successfully laying for about 1 wk, almost daily - today no egg but she is not acting right. She is lethargic, laying down alot, holding her back end feather up and just not herself. I suspect she has a stuck egg? They are free roaming, eat better than I do, so I don't think it...
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    Yipppeeee!!!! Our first egg!!!

    I feel like such a proud mom. Just got my first egg - so exciting!!!! I was not surprised just because Winnie was more interested in being in the nesting box (guess she did understand the purpose of that box - instincts - wow!) than mooching food from me. (I'll post a pic a soon as I figure...
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    Sooooo close......

    My pullets are 21 wks now and of course I am anxiously awaiting the first egg. This afternoon I went to the backyard to only find 3 of my 4 begging for food. I went and looked in the nesting box (the top opens up) and there was my RIR Winnie, laying in the nesting box on top of the golf ball. I...
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    Demanding chickens

    I think I have seriously spoiled my chickens. I have only 4, all different breeds and they whine more than any animal I have ever had (and I had a cat who lived to 22 who I am not kidding meowed at me at least 50 times a day - maybe he's come back in the form of 4 chickens?) I spend A LOT of...
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    The things I am learning from chickens...

    Hello all! I've been on the site so much in the past 5 months that I thought it was high time to become a member. So many have been much help to me since getting my first 4 chicks last April and I have learned a lot these months and surely have tons more to learn - but oh the fun! I got...
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