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    Cream Brabanters and silver leghorns

    Hi! I am asking a lot of questions lately!! Thanks for bearing with me. Wondering about Cream Brabanters and Silver Leghorns as backyard birds. There's a lot of info on BYC but I am having trouble narrowing it down to simplest things! Are they quiet, do they tend to fly off and how are...
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    Life span of black sex-link.

    I know they aren't really a "breed" of chicken, just a 'type" of chicken. I' heard somewhere that they didn't live very long--like around three years. Is this true? Hoping not because I have one that is around 2 1/2 and I really like her!!!
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    Turning eggs in carton.

    i know a lot has been written on this already, but I haven't found an exact answer to this yet--- We placed the eggs in my sons incubate today, in the carton. he marked one end of each with a pencil to tell "which end is up". He is planning on just flipping them over 3 times a day (there are...
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    Icelandic chickens in a backyard flock.

    Hi! I love the look and idea of the Icelandic chickens, but what are they like in person? Are they suitable for a suburban backyard bird -- for example: are they quiet, do they fly off, do they lay a reasonable number of eggs? I'd like to find out more! Thanks and sorry if this has already...
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    homemade incubator---humidity unstable

    Hi! I have gotten a lot of helpful input from people on BYC so thanks so much! We have a homemade incubator project in progress. we are supposed to be getting eggs friday, so we still have time to troubleshoot. Problem is that the humidity is swinging around wildly. I went ahead and...
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    Light bulb in homemade incubator.

    So my husband and son built a homemade incubator out of an old styrofoam cooler. My question is about the light bulb. It's very bright in there. Will that be a problem when the chicks hatch? Will it hurt their eyes? Under a mother hen would be dark, so this seems a little odd. Should we look...
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    Should I try easter eggers again?

    Hi! I know I've posted about my non-laying easter egger "hen" Cleo. In the past year and 3 months she has laid one egg.(She will be 2 years old in Feb.). She seems just fine and is a nice pet chicken so its no big deal. My question is should I try this "breed" again? I have 5 chickens...
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    Really good homemade incubator instructions wanted!

    Hi! After the success of getting my broody australorp hen some fertile eggs to hatch in October (thank you BYCers for your help with that), my son would like to try to build a homemade incubator (we have already found homes for any eggs that hatch). Can anyone point me in the direction of...
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    When to let Mom and babies out with the rest of the flock?

    I gave my broody Australorp hen 4 fertile eggs to sit on and two of them hatched! The babies are close to 3 weeks old now and it is looking like mom is getting bored with being away from her girlfriends. When is it ok to let her bring the babies out to run around with her? They have been...
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    Broody hen eats her eggs?

    Hello! After doing all I knew to persuade my Australorp hen NOT to be broody, I gave up and gave her 4 fertile eggs (from a farm store) to sit on, which she has--nonstop for 5 days. Today I shooed her off the nest to try to get her to eat/drink and there were only 3eggs there, nothing left of...
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    Broody hen and quarantining eggs.

    Hello! sorry if this has been covered elsewhere---there's just so much info here! My Australorp hen has gone broody--I've moved her, isolated her to a cooler cage for a few days, given her cool baths and had her sit on ice packs, but she won't quit. It has just been about a week and a half...
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    Will she ever lay another egg?

    Hello! I've seen this topic discussed before, but still have some questions. The Chicken i question is my one year old easter egger hen, Cleo. She started laying in mid July last summer and was really great at it until mid october when she stopped, did a little molting and hasn't laid an egg...
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    Sleeping on ground.

    Hi! I mulled it over and decided to post this here, not in the coop section--I hope thats ok! I have 3 hens, all just over one year. My husband just built them a nice A frame tractor, so they could have more room when not out in the yard. Prior to this they lived in a eglu classic. I moved...
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    putting baby rooster in time out.

    Hi! I have 4 chicks all 3-4 weeks old. One is most likely a rooster, and he/she is creating havoc in the brooder (old guinea pig cage). He/she pecks, chases and bullies the others. So I put him in an old dog crate near the brooder area so he'll stlll be warm (he pretty much already has all...
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    Is she a he?

    This is my 3.5 week old buff orpington chick. I'm thinking she is a he, but have very little experience to draw on. Any ideas?
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