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  1. Chickybaby

    Anyone else had a bad chicken year??

    I'm no pro at the chicken raising thing, but have been at it 4 years or so. Haven't raised any babies in a couple years because I didn't need to... the hawks last summer wiped me out so I needed to replentish this spring. A good friend of ours raises many breeds, and gave us 20 chicks in...
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    Use my loss as your wake up call

    I have to say, my first year raising chickens was pretty successful. I was really proud of myself, got complacent and stopped being diligent - as you NEED to be when caring for chickens, or any animals for that matter. This year, however, has presented problems that I never imagined and this is...
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    It's not been a good year for my chickens

    It started in June when my son's Cochin disappeared - we hoped she had wandered off to set a hidden nest, but sadly she never came back. And it hasn't gotten any better. So far I've lost 3 Dark Brahmas, my Buff Brahma roo, my Lt. Brahma roo, 2 Lt Brahma hens, 2 Dk Cornish hens, 2 Maran hens, and...
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    DH's rooster is just not right...

    We have a 9 month old Dominique rooster named Quincy. He was gifted to us by our good friends and neighbors as part of quad that was supposed to be 3 pullets and 1 roo. Well, it was just the opposite (they were really little when we got them). Anyway, long story short, Quincy is the most...
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    My smallest egg - incredible! (pics)

    ! I'm more used to eggs of the JUMBO variety, but this is what I found in the coop first thing this morning... a quarter-sized egg! I have never seen anything like it, like I said most of my girls lay pretty good sized ones. This is another giant egg I got this afternoon next to the tiny one...
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    What is with THIS egg? **pics**

    Okay, so I've had some "special eggs" from my Brahma girls, but THIS one takes the cake... it has a ridge that goes all the way around... and it's kind of pitted, with discoloration in the "pits"... It's really STRANGE... Not quite as big as my WHOPPER egg, but it's good size. I just...
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    Dominique, Barred Rock and/or Cuckoo Maran... maybe?

    Okay, several months back a neighbor and good friend gifted me 4 Dominiques. We could tell one roo right away even though they were really young. One was much darker than the others, and smaller. One had little spikes on it's comb. As time went by, it became obvious that instead of having a trio...
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    The WHOPPER egg **PICS** *UPDATED*

    Seriously, if I hadn't seen this I would NOT believe it! My girls, Lt Brahmas, have been laying since the end of August. We've had lots, and I mean LOTS, of double yolkers lately. But I'm almost afraid to crack this egg! Here's the WHOPPER... Here's an assortment of what we've been getting...
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    I've got to say something, or I'll explode!

    :o I'll apologize in advance if this gets too long. My 16 year old step-daughter was put into foster care by a judge yesterday, and it's killing us. No one has found us to be unfit or neglectful, our home is fine and she has been well provided for (unless you ask her). We are a bit traditional...
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    What's with all these double yolk eggs?

    I've heard that it happens from time to time, but it seems my girls are the queens of the double yolk eggs! The are Lt Brahmas and started laying the end of August. They are just now starting to get reliable. With 4 pullets laying we are getting 3-4 eggs a day. We seem to have an abundance of...
  11. Chickybaby

    Will they EVER crow normally?

    :o I've got some Dk Cornish Bantams that are nearing 6 months of age now. The boys have been "practicing" their crowing skills for over a month, maybe even 6 weeks, and aren't even CLOSE yet . My Lt Brahma roo got it after 2 - 3 weeks! So I'm starting to wonder if they'll ever get it right, or...
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    Looks like it's goodbuy to Frostie

    Frosty, my 3 1/2 month old Dk Brahma has been down for about a week now. She doesn't seem sick - eyes are clear, no coughing or wheezing, but she may have been injured by the other birds during the night. I found her one morning all hunched down, she could stand but she was hobbling/wobbling...
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    Will they come back to the coop to lay?

    I suspected my pullets were getting ready to lay, so 2 weeks ago I locked them up in their yard. Prior to that they were free ranging all day. I figured it would be impossible to find eggs if they did so I shut the door on the pen. Surprisingly, the next day there was an egg on the coop floor...
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    Is she sick or injured? I don't know...

    :o I've got a 15 wk old Dk Brahma chick, Frosty. When I went out to the coop to let everyone out this morning, she just stayed against the wall, kind of in a ball but just laying there. I went over and picked her up to check her out and instead of protesting, as they usually do, she just looked...
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    Rooster tail position, what does it mean?

    Maybe a silly question, but I haven't seen it before so I'll just ask... Is there a meaning in the position a rooster holds its tail in? I've got a 3 1/2 mo old Lt Brahma roo that holds its tail down - like he's covering his butt or something. It's not an all the time thing, but it happens...
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    Are they KIDDING?!

    :mad: I just got back from the grocery store, where I had to pay $4.29 for a gallon of milk! What?! It's been running between $3.29 and $3.49 for the last month or so, which is BAD enough, but over $4 is absolutely CRAZY! :o Guess it's a good thing that I've been researching dairy goats for a...
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    Late curling toes?

    :o My Dk Cornish Bantams are nearly 9 wks old, and have been doing well until today I noticed one of the pullets toes are curling inward. It doesn't seem to be hindering her mobility at all, and nothing else about her behavior would lead me to believe she isn't healthy. I've read other posts...
  18. Chickybaby

    Equine dilemma...

    DH and I moved to the country to improve our family quality of life. For the most part, it's working out very well for us. We have 2 kids, horses, calves, chickens (went from 8 to 30 in about 6 wks!) a rabbit, and am contemplating a couple of milk goats and some turkeys. The problem we are...
  19. Chickybaby

    What color will this Cochin be?

    When I went to get 10 more Brahma chicks from a friend, she had also received a large batch of assorted Cochins. She told my son he could pick one out to keep for himself, so he picked out this little one. At first it had a black head and back, gray wings and white underside. It is 3 wks old...
  20. Chickybaby

    Lt Brahma roo, and more Brahma questions (pics) LONG post

    Nice to see fellow Brahma fans here. My teens (I have 8 11 wk old Lt Brahmas) are HUGE, and really beautiful birds. I've got a questions about roosters, though. I ended up with 2, the first one I suspected was a roo early on and the second one surprised me a few weeks ago. The first one seems to...
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