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    SOLD: Plymouth Barred Rocks and Easter Eggers (Glendale, KY Kentucky)

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    Laying small eggs at 19 weeks!?

    When we got our first group of Plymouth Barred Rock hens, they started laying eggs at just under 6 months (23 weeks, I think), and once they started laying, they were regular-sized eggs with your occasional jumbo double-yolker. Our newest group of PBRs (incubated and hatched from the first...
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    Mute rooster?

    We have 24 Plymouth Barred Rocks that we hatched via an incubator that are now 13 weeks old, and doing great free-ranging and sleeping in the barn with our year-old hens (their moms). Out of the 24, we have nine pullets and 15 cockerels, and the boys have all started their normal rooster...
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    Hatching! Now where do we put them?

    One of our 1-year-old Plymough Barred Rock hens went broody about a month ago, so we bought some Easter Egger eggs, which she's been sitting on in a broody box I made out of a dog kennel, and then stuck in the garage. Today is day 20, and we found three happy chicks under her last night, and I'm...
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    Use large dog kennel as a broody box?

    One of our 1-year old Plymouth barred Rock hens has gone broody, and we just received 12 fertile hatching eggs we plan on sticking under her. I've been reading about "Broody Boxes" to keep her contained/isolated, and was wondering if anyone has ever used a large plastic dog kennel like as a...
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    When can we let our chicks play outside?

    We have 28 Plymouth Barred Rock chicks that hatched late last week, and they're already starting to get the cutest like feathers on their wings as they hang out in the brooder. I know it'll be quite a while until we move them out to the coop for good, but at what point can we take them outside...
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    So many Plymouth Barred Rock chicks! (Four photos)

    This was our first attempt at incubating/hatching, and of the 33 eggs we put into the Little Giant, we ended up with 28 happy, health chicks, which was more than we were even hoping for! They're the cutest things in the world, and are chirping away inside the brooder I put together for them. The...
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    Incubator is getting crowded! Brooder time?

    We have a LG still air incubator with 33 eggs inside it, which started hatching yesterday at noon, and we currently have 12 chicks running around inside, as well as their 12 busted-up shells and the 21 remaining eggs, many of which have pipped. I understand the chicks can theoretically survive...
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    Our first pips of our first incubating attempt!

    Almost exactly 21 days after we put 33 of our hens' eggs in a still-air LG, we noticed 2 pips before bedtime, and I woke up to a total of 6 this morning. Yay! Some neat random sounds coming from the eggs, too, which is amazing. Should I be concerned that 10 hours after the first two pips, the...
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    Thoughts based on two candling pics?

    We are incubating 33 of our Plymouth Barred Rock hens' eggs in a Little Giant incubator we picked up from TSC, and with today being Day 7, we tried candling. You can see two pics below of one of the eggs, which is pretty consistent with all the others: A large dark spot over approx. 2/3 of the...
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    WTB: Ameraucana or Easter Egger pullets, Louisville/Ft. Knox/Etown KY

    Looking to add Ameraucanas and/or Easter Eggers pullets/young hens to our flock of Plymouth Barred Rocks. If you're anywhere near the Louisville, KY area, and have some available, please let me know.
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    Greetings from Kentucky!

    We moved to Glendale, Kentucky (south of Ft. Knox) about six months ago, and live on a wonderful 4 acres of land out in the middle of nowhere. As it's something my wife has wanted to do forever, we bought 11 Plymouth Barred Rock pullets in August, and they finally started to lay eggs several...
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