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  1. wayneh

    First Egg

    Just found our first egg. now what? do we clean the egg? I have it in a wire basket on the counter.
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    Posting Pictures

    Is there a way to post more than one picture without haveing to post each picture seperately. I would like to post several pictures of our new coop progress to my page. It takes quite a long time posting them one at a time. Is there a way to post the whole file. About 15 pictures.
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    Squatting

    When your chicks start squatting, bout how long is it before eggs? We have 2 RIR's and a Golden Comet. Blondie the Comet is starting to squat when I let them out in the morning. She has been doing this for about 2 days. Are eggs comming soon?
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    Building Inspector

    We have a Buff Orpington named "Blondie". well she has become the building inspector. we are in the process of building a new coop and she is interested in everything we are doing. we were setting the post for the legs, she came over and stood around my feet watching. even when I would slam...
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    Sex links.

    My understanding is, breed 2 different types chicks and when they hatch the color of the chick indicates what sex the chicks are. If this understanding is correct, then if we breed a white leghorn and a RIR. will the pullets be red or white, or some other combination? thanks, we are thinking...
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    New Coop

    Started the new coop today. got 2 of the 4 post in ground with quick-crete. put the other 2 in the ground tomorrow. since the dog attack, we have changed everything, no more free range. now they have a 30x50 fenced in area. now we are planning on getting a few more chicks, (chicken math) so...
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    new chicky fence

    well the fence company just left. man what a new fence. the girls are loving it. hope they don't fly out now that they have the room to take off. our new pen is 50x30. with just 5 girls they should have plenty of room. now the planting starts. we are going to plant a few plants inside the...
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    cheese

    my girls ate some cheese yesterday from a bologna n cheese sandwich I didn't finish. TW (the wife) told me not to give it to the girls for some reason. can anyone here tell me any reason my chicks should not eat cheese? I don't think it would be bad. what to y'all think?
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    Fencing in the Girls

    If you read my "our super chick" post, you will know we are building a pen. we have 5 chicks and do not plan on having any more that 6 or 7 max. our pen plans are for a 50x40 area with 6 ft. welded wire fencing. we are not planning on putting a top on the pen. the area we are fencing has...
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    Our Super Chick

    Last Sunday, our flock was attacked by dogs. 2 girls came home out of breath and scared. Blondie, was chased by the dogs, caught, then escaped into the woods. it was about an hour and half until we finally found out what had happeded. The neighbor finally told us bout his friends with the...
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    Suggestions on fence

    after nearly loosing one of our girls, thier freedom will be taken away. we are planning on building a large fence, 50x25. we are not planning on putting a top on the pen. we have RIR's and Whiteleghorns. we have then in a dog pen that is 5 feet high. its just 12x12 and they show no...
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    Don't Move the Tractor after the Chicks get up

    this morning after letting the girls out, I move the tractor. we have been letting our girls out for about a week now and bout 10 mins. after sunset, they went to bed. same thing every night, no problem. the girls have exploried all around the house. they found TW's rose garden. scratchy...
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    Psyco Chicks

    we thought we needed to get us some white eggers. At the TSC we found some White Leghorns, humm they sound great. we checked the breed index to check how they would behave, and be nice chicks. the index said Flighty,Calm, Bears confinement well, Noisy, Shy. don't think our chicks read this...
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    youtube video

    posted a video of the girls first day foraging in the yard. wind was blowing pretty good, but if you turn your volum up you can hear them talking. chicken talk you know. video name is, "chickens in the yard" our girls were 7 weeks old that day, kinda a birthday present, they got work release...
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    Free at last

    we were planting our garden yesterday and I had this great ideal. why not let the 7 week old chicks free range for a while. they just loved it. never did wander too far from the coop. we took a break and set our chairs in the shade with the chicks. we think they liked us being around. they...
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    First day Free Ranging

    we had to do some coop repair after the tornado blew it over last week. nothing too bad though. we have been locking the chicks up in the run for coop maintainance, but today we let them out in the yard. at first they didn't know if they should leave the coop area, that didn't last long...
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    Remedies for the Dreded Pasty Butt

    I have noticed several remedies for pasty butt. Yogart, molassas, sand, bird grit, and sever others I can't remember. By no means am I a chicken expert, but I know several. The best advice I was given was sand. No not the play sand at Home Depot, or Lowes. just plain old building or...
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    more chicken math

    TW, (the wife), and I went to the TSC yesterday. y'all know what happens at the TSC? all that math you learned in school, flies out the window. TW had talked about getting some white egg layers to go with our brown eggers. guess what they. had at the TSC? White Leghorns. now just how are...
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    Changing Coop Orentation

    We are getting ready to have a batch of storms come through later today. well yesterday afternoon, we moved the coop closer to the garage. in our move we changed the orentation of the coop. by that I mean, the end that was on the west side, is now on the east side. last night when the chicks...
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    Coop in the storm

    well we got our baptisim of fire last night. storms rolled through and did some damage to our house and the coop. it blew the coop over with the chicks inside. scared the uknow what out of me. the chicks were fine, just a little scared and wet. got the coop uprighted and some new dry...
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