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    Oopsie!

    I was so proud of my 8 girls yesterday for laying 7 eggs! I carried them in using the water container I normally use in the evening. I set the container on a little stool down stairs and it promptly flipped over and fell to the concrete floor! Broke 6 out of 7. :barnie Believe it or not, I did...
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    The Bullied Now The Bully

    The lowest girl in the pecking order has been an EE who runs from every other chicken, even though there is only one other girl who does most of the bullying. Today I see that her face is redder than usual (she's been laying for a couple of months) and she is attacking one of the other EEs...
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    Odd First Egg

    I think it was the very first egg my black sex link laid. It sat in the coop for no more than a couple days before I saw it. When I discovered it I put it with other eggs, and now finally I started to use it in some scrambled eggs this morning. Upon cracking it, I found that the yolk was solid...
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    Egg Thief!

    This evening as I was doing my chicken duties I checked the nests for eggs and found three; a brown, a dark brown and a blue. I took them inside and rather than go up the stairs from the basement, I laid them in the corner of one of the lowest steps, carpeted and nice and cushy, planning to grab...
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    Oops! My Bad!

    I went out to the chicken yard about 2:30 this afternoon to give the girls fresh water, and to my surprise, I found an egg lying in the chicken run. Then I saw another, and another, and under the raised coop, another! What the heck are they doing laying in the yard?! Then I glanced at the pop...
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    Never Saw So Many Tiny Eggs

    As of today, I have 4 out of 8 pullets laying. Two Black Sex Link, one Welsummer and one EE. The black sex link have been laying daily for about a week, the wellie 3 days and the EE started today. They are all the size of bantam eggs. Perfect little eggs, hard shells. I haven't cracked any yet...
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    Got Our First Egg Today!

    Heh, it's a dinky little thing, but I expect good things to come from this girl. I'm pretty sure it's from a black sex link who is huge. Her name is Aga (named by my little grandson) but we call her Big Mama because that seems to be suiting her better, lol! She is about 20 weeks, which seems...
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    They Like It Cosy

    My coop is 4 feet wide by 8 feet long with a 4 foot roost at each end. My eight 19 week old pullets have all been roosting on the lower roost, and as they have grown, it's getting pretty tight up there. They are aware of the taller roost, but never roosted on it. So a few nights ago, I took down...
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    Feed the Flock Stinging Nettle?

    I noticed the stinging nettle is getting out of control in one of my flower beds. Does anyone feed it to their chickens? I understand once picked, the "stinging" ability goes away. I know it is supposed to be good for people...
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    Wasps Again!

    I cut a fancy new curtain to put over the nest box openings, to give the girls some privacy in anticipation of them beginning to lay. First I had to pull down the very old one that was there, stapled on with big manly staples. With the banging and thumping, I started to see wasps come charging...
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    Sour Smell in Run

    After such a long rainy spell, the run and everything else is finally dry, but I am smelling a sour smell from the ground itself, I think. I have mostly hay down now. It is dry, and I don't leave uneaten food scraps lying around. If there were not chickens there, I would probably put down lime...
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    Gnats

    I just noticed we are having lots of gnats again this year. Do you have problems with them bothering your chickens? And what solutions have you come up with? When I had adult chickens, I kept a fan on so the breeze would deter gnats, but I just have chicks now, too young to put under a fan, I think.
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    2 Week Old Chick is Sneezing

    She is still eating, no nasal discharge than I can see, and her eyes are clear. She does seem kind of lethargic, but not in a stupor. She has been the smallest of a group of 8 mixed chicks from the start. They are inside, with a heat lamp, in a box large enough to get away from the heat when...
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    Suggestions for Getting Larger Eggs?

    My 5 LF girls are a year old, and laying consistently, but the eggs are small. Only one hen produces an egg close to 2 ounces. Most of them are around 1.5 ounces. They get laying pellets, meal worms, frozen Japanese beetles, a few table scraps, small amount of mixed bird seed daily. Water all...
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    Frozen Bugs for Winter Feeding

    Reading different people's comments about wanting to raise meal worms to ensure that their chickens have wintertime protein, I wanted to suggest trapping Japanese Beetles in the summer. Last summer I only had one beetle trap, but I was able to trap and freeze about one and a half gallons of...
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    Paying Their Own Way

    Ye-haw, I finally got an egg from each chicken today! Five chickens, five eggs. They have started picking up production lately, ever since the days got noticeable longer. They are not jumbo eggs, by any means, but it may be because they get so many table scraps. But that works for me, and I...
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    Search Feature Not Working

    I have been wondering why people ask the same question over and over, when they could search it and get the info. Now I know why--The search feature isn't working. I have tried entering many different topics to search for, and I consistently get a list of recent posts, that's all. What's up with...
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    Got Rid of my Roo!

    Someone finally responded to my Craigslist ad for a free rooster! Buck went to a nice family in the country! No, REALLY!! It's the truth! I am relieved he is not going to a stew pot. He will be able to free range all the time, and have his girlfriends. And my girls are relieved, too.
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    Crop is Never Full

    Dovie just never eats enough at one time to fill her crop. She loses interest in whatever food I give her and walks away after a few bites. Even yummy stuff like scrambled eggs and watermelon. She is the runt (what else?) out of 5 pullets, 20 weeks old. The other girls stuff themselves...
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    Craigslist Quandary

    I listed my 5-month old rooster on Craigslist, free for the taking. The only call I have gotten on him was today, from a young man. He asked if the rooster crows, is it loud, how often, etc. He revealed that he wants to give the roo to his brother for his birthday. After a few questions, I found...
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