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    Newbie here... Is it molting??

    My hens look like someone rubbed some sticky substance on their backs and their downy feathers are showing. Is this molt? I'm in Mass and we are cold now!!! I'd hate to put in a heat lamp but, should I? Will they survive the cold temps? This coming week will be 30's and 40's at night. Not too...
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    Today could be THE day....?

    I ran out to the coop to see what all of the noise was about. True "bock, bock, bock" sounds. I found my black sex link in the nest box out of breath! But no eggs! She has been doing this all day, jumping in and out, restless. I have two golf balls in there that she rolls under her. And she's...
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    Will a Rooster mate with another Rooster?

    As I said in an earlier post, I found out that we had a Rooster. Wondering now if we have another. It's my Buff Orp "Grace". But this is the pullet, or I hope to be pullet, that had a patch of feathers missing on her back and on her neck. I'm told that was a result of frequent mating by my long...
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    Not laying, funny sounds, Rooster gone

    I have 6 pullets with 3 being 23 weeks(1 blacksex-link and 2 Ameracaunas) and 3 that are 25 weeks( 2 Buff Orps and 1 Buff Brahma). Not one is laying!! I woke up to Zoe crowing two weeks ago. Found out "she" was a Joey! Had to get rid of my big beautiful boy due to town ordinances. I found a...
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