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    I Won't Miss Searching For Egg Cache's

    I'll miss getting double yolks from young hens, but I absolutely won't miss searching for hidden clutches of eggs. Thankfully I noticed that my olive egg girl hadn't left an egg in the nesting boxes for four days so we knew to look. I was still getting about 10 eggs a day in the boxes, we just...
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    LOUD Squawks - Hen Over a Year Old?

    This girl is driving me bananas. Stays in the coop all day. She's been broody. She's currently laying eggs (so, not broody) but refuses to leave the coop unless escorted outside. She was bald last winter from roo mounting issues. We put a jacket on her. She took it off and her feathers are...
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    First Thought If Someone Hatched a Quad Yolk?

    First off, no - I didn't. But if someone showed you a picture of their quad yolk, what would your initial thoughts be? Me? 1. Photoshop. 2. They tossed a few eggs together in a bowl and took a picture because they crave attention. 3. Whatever they feed their chickens is insanely unhealthy. 4...
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    22 Week Old EEs - Gender?

    Playing backyard paparazzi with chickens isn't easy. Sorry if these aren't the clearest. I have more of these buggers, but...when I can I'll get pictures for opinions on gender. I only know one, for certain, is male.
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    New Hatchout - For Fun, Any Guesses On This Chick?

    I don't need to know, but for fun - what breed does this one look like (I have zero way of knowing, it's a BYM).
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    How Do You Know When They're Actually Broody?

    I have a hen who lays an egg and sits on it for hours. When I go to collect she makes all the broody noises and aggressively pecks. Same behavior for the past four days. Today when I took the egg, the fake egg that was in the box rolled out. She glared at me and tucked it back under her. The...
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    What Is He?

    Dad is a Buff Orp. but I'm trying to figure out what kind of crazy mix mom is. When I posted a pic of her last fall the guesses were Choc Orp. mix. This is her boy and he has green highlights in his tail and he's bigger than his dad. Charlie is a good boy, I'm just so curious what breed mix he...
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    CAKES (How I'm using up a dozen eggs)!

    I made the Sally's Addiction angel food cake today that calls for a dozen egg whites (I've made it a few times before - it's always good). The yolks are in the fridge and this weekend they'll be used in a "Vintage Gold Cake"...
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    When Do Americana (or whatever TSC calls not-Ameraucanas that look like enough them) Chickens Start Laying Eggs?

    I was gifted some blue, white, and brown eggs from a neighbor that said they were Ameraucanas. I'm not an idiot, but she was really nice and adamant about them being Ameraucanas and I was just looking for colored egg layers so I happily thanked her for the gift. I'm going to guess that they're...
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    Mama Hen Gave Up?

    One of our new laying hens snuck off to be broody shortly after she started laying (we didn't notice - there were many, many new girls that hatched out in late January). She showed up one day with four babies. One died within the first week (I think the eggs were just too small to yield strong...
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    Well That's Kinda Cool

    That's not a shadow. One of my girls lays ombre colored eggs. This is the third day in a row. :lau
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    Processing Weekend - Any Good Links?

    We know how to dispatch/clean, and I know how to make a great broth, but I'm hoping someone has good links on how to cook the chicken so I can remove the meat from the bones to store for future use (canning/freezing/etc) where it isn't a rubbery, tough mess. I've yet to have luck. I have a good...
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    My Late January Hatch

    My late January hatch was entirely a BYM or BO hen X BO roo cross. Most have started laying over the past two weeks. Today I see the egg on the right. Must be her first egg because it's the first tiny green egg I've seen. I'm assuming the one on the left is mom's though any of my brown laying...
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    Ever Have A Hen SO Broody That...

    ...she hangs out in the yard all day with 2 month old "chicks" and stops laying eggs? She was broody when I was collecting eggs around Christmas AND in February. When We put the first batch of chicks in an outside coop she was still laying eggs, but gradually broke away from her posse of...
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    Most Valued Tool For Having Chickens?

    Doesn't have to be pricey. Example: GARDEN CLOGS! Not overpriced "Crocs". Ten dollar garden clogs from Amazon. Put them on to walk your yard and take them off before you go back in your house. Too many times I dragged chicken (or dog!) crap around on my shoes. Cheap solution. 😁
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    Research You Ignored And Wished You Hadn't

    You're smart. You did your research. You honestly thought you knew better. You found out you didn't the hard way: Don't keep too many roosters/don't keep your larger roos. Guilty. I thought keeping a big roo if he was kind would be beneficial genetically since I was raising dual purpose birds...
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    Tricks To Get Your Chickens Through Colder Months

    I live in a colder climate. I know people with chickens that are fine with their flock taking a break from egg production in the winter. I give supplemental light (not anything I haven't seen often online as a winter booster) AND I feed cooked hunting offal on the weekends as a treat. They kept...
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    Okay. You Have Chickens. What Else?

    We're here because we mostly have chickens. What else are you tending in your yard? Me: Chickens Meat Rabbits Honeybees In the future: A pond with fish Hair Sheep In my Backwoods (hunting critters I plant things for): Deer Turkeys I work as a teaching paraprofessional to pay off student loan...
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    A Silly Question

    Forgive me for not trying to chase this roo down like a poultry paparazzi in the yard for a picture. :) That said, I have a roo that has bright orange, carrot-colored feet. Both parents have pink feet (dad's a BO). Mom is my green egg laying EE (so she could be any mix of things). I'm just...
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    Dreaded Ameraucana

    I posted on a local FB poultry forum ISO colored fertile eggs to boost the number of colored eggs in my coop. A lovely neighbor gifted me a dozen blue eggs that she said were Ameraucanas. The ones that hatched had slate legs, chipmunk cheeks and hit every mark. It was a fantastic gift, but I'm...
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