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    Silly Question: Hen with Duck eggs

    Will a hen set duck eggs?? We have a neighbor who has ducks and they keep coming over and laying eggs...not a big deal...but they lay them in my hay (small space to climb in to get hay) and I don't like being hissed at when I go get my hay!! Anytime we see the duck off the eggs we take them. We...
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    BR from Privett through Feed Store

    Any idea whether Crystal is indeed Crystal or if Crystal is Christopher?!?! Here are the pictures I have....please let me know if you need additional pictures. Day 1 Day 7 Ok so that is all that are on my blog that might be helpful and my internet won't let me upload more pics right...
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    Egg Journal Question

    Anyone keep an egg journal? My girls aren't old enough to lay yet, but I do have 2 laying hens (they lay almost identical eggs!!) I would like to have a record of who laid each day and what each hens eggs look like (color, shape, size, etc) Anyone have advice or a good template they are willing...
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    Rhode Island Red Rooster (Houston, TX)

    I got a RIR roo tonight that I will need to rehome soon... I don't know much about him. A lady contacted me about a hen and roo that she couldn't keep anymore. They were raised by a high school student and are about 8 months old. I plan to keep the hen, but can't keep the roo. If anyone is...
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    Think I may have found out what my roo is...

    Any thoughts??? I was flipping through the Meyer Hatchery catalog that I got in the mail yesterday and saw a picture of a rooster that looks an awful lot like mine! It says he is a Golden Buff also known as Golden Comet, Golden Sex Link, Cinnamon Queen, and Red Star. Says this hybrid strain is a...
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    Your Poultry Library

    I know many of you have or have read many books, besides coming to BYC for the wealth of knowledge available here!! If you could have only one book from your library (don't have to own the book, just a great book) which would it be??? I am looking to get a couple great books to have and would...
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    Ameraucana or Easter Egger

    I know the Aracauna (sp) are rumpless (easy to distinguish from EE and Ameraucana. But how do you know if a chick is EE or Ameraucana?? I got my 2 "Ameraucana pullets from the feed store who purchased them from Privett Hatchery. I got a straight run "Ameraucana" from Tractor Supply who got...
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    Ameraucana or Easter Eggers??

    I know the Aracauna (sp) are rumpless (easy to distinguish from EE and Ameraucana. But how do you know if a chick is EE or Ameraucana?? I got my 2 "Ameraucana pullets from the feed store who purchased them from Privett Hatchery. I got a straight run "Ameraucana" from Tractor Supply who got...
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    Chick Laser Tag

    The first day I used a laser temperature gauge thingy to see if it was 95 degrees in the brooder. My husband is an electrician and has this thing that you push the button, point the laser beam at something you need to know the temp and it tells you. Playing chase the laser with chicks was not...
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    Coop Pics and Question!

    I posted my coop last Sunday after we built it, we finished the whole thing, just didn't have time to put in nests or roosts and the feeder and waterer hadn't been hung yet...so here are some updated pictures taken this morning. Here is a pic of the nests And if it works (it never lets me...
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    Had the hens for almost a week...where are the eggs

    We got our chickens last Saturday. 2 hens and 2 roosters. The 2 hens laid us 2 eggs on Sun while we were building the coop. Since then NO eggs. I have looked everywhere I could think they would lay and everywhere I could get to! My suspicion was they were laying them under the storage container...
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    Chicks and flies

    If the weather is nice we leave our front door open, so we tend to get flies. I noticed yesterday, while hubby was killing flies in the livingroom, that the chicks were chasing a couple flies that were fluttering around the light. I am almost positive one of the chicks caught one, because all of...
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    I did a bad thing!!! PIP

    I went to TSC to return a bulb I bought (hubby didn't tell me we had one!!) and happened to walk past the chicks. The TSC I was at (on my mom's side of town...not my TSC) had their chicks seperated and labeled straight run and pullets...I had to try my luck at getting a roo out of the straight...
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    Oh No!! Waterlogged brooder

    I came home to find my little girls in a sopping wet brooder. At least it was still fairly warm with the light on. The waterer was completely empty, but upright...not sure what happened?!?! So I moved them from their box into a rubbermaid container I drug out and consolidated into another one...
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    Funny TSC story

    I was looking at the chicks trying to figure out what might be what waiting what seemed like hours for help, when this little old lady came up and looked in the troughs and commented that she would love a flat beaked chicken! (WHAT???) I think she may have been talking about a duckling... As...
  16. new2chickens

    Looking for EE Roo

    I would love to take a very young EE roo off anyone's hands that is near enough to me for me to come pick up or meet half way. I am in Tomball TX (near Houston) Sarah
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    I should have been warned!!! New Chicks

    I went to Tractor Supply and my feed store to get stuff to be ready for chicks (either bought from either local or ordered) I went to TSC first and bought what I needed from there (the things that were cheaper than feed store) They had chicks already and I almost bought some until the guy asked...
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    How do I tell if my hens are thin??

    I am sure this has been asked before, but I just can't find...I don't know if I just don't search right on this forum!! I was in the coop with my hens this morning, after letting the roos out. I picked up each hen and petted her for a moment (trying to get them used to me and friendly, I'll...
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    Meyer Hatchery - Anyone use them???

    I saw that they can send as few as 3 chicks depending on your location. Just curious if anyone has used them?? I plan to talk to the feed store and go to Tractor Supply, but in case they don't have what I want (3 Buff Orp females, 2 EE females, and 1 EE male) I would like to look into other...
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    Wanted near Houston TX 3 Buff Orp 3 EE

    I am looking for young chicks to raise up in a brooder and then put out with my birds. I would like all the BOs and 2 of the EEs to be females and 1 male EE. Friendly older birds (ready to live in coop) might be okay to...depends how nice to me they are! I hear all about y'all sittin with your...
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