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    Grafting a chick to a broody hen?

    I have a silkie hen who is a serious broodzilla. Last time she sat for a month, and after I became worried that she was losing weight I finally gave in and got 2 chicks from the feed store. I snuck them under in the dark and she took them with no issues. She went broody again a couple weeks ago...
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    Breed and genders please!

    These guys were a month old yesterday. I hatched them out of medium sized brown eggs that I purchased locally. The woman stated that she had cuckoo maran, barred rock, and easter eggers in her flock. I threw the in the incubator as packing peanuts for my two silkie eggs, and am curious what I...
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    What color are my sikie chicks, please?

    I have 2 6 day old silkie chicks that I incubated from my flock. I thought they were from my naked neck roo over my splash hen, but suspect that my black roo may be the father. Guess I better call Maury! I read that black and splash throw blue and splash?? The possible parents: \ roo, hen...
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    Maybe a Brahma?

    Medium brown egg hatched six days ago out of my incubator with her two silkie friends. Large yellow chick with a dark spot on top of her head, feathered legs, and starting to develop grey in wings. The flock she came from had GLW and White Brahma roos, with brahma, black sex link, sussex and...
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    no eggs in months!

    I have a flock of 4: an EE, BO, SLW cross, and an australorp. The first two are around a year, the SLW is 2, and my Aussie is 3. My EE only layed for about a month and quit. About 4 months ago a coon got into their run and grabbed the EE off the roost. We got out fast enough that she was fine...
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    My EE hen is confused...

    I have a flock of 4, one of which is an EE. She isn't friendly, and I only bought her because I wanted green eggs! She is about a year old, and she laid for a couple of months regularly. She then made one really big egg, one tiny egg, and then quit. She now occasionally makes the worst attempt...
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    I think I electrocuted a skunk...

    Around 8 months ago I lost two birds to a neighbors dog while I was at work. I patched up the fence where I thought that it got through, but a couple nights later I heard a ruckus in my coop. I ran out, but didn't see what it was. It had snatched my last banty from the roost and she was pretty...
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    My new blonde :)

    I responded to a craigslist ad for 8 month old buff orpingtons Friday, planning to replace one of the hen s I lost to my neighbors dog. I only planned on picking up one, figuring that three hens was enough for a single person household. Typical chicken math, it was lucky I brought an extra ten...
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    racoon victim...

    I came home from duty Friday to find 2 of my flock of 5 had been pretty brutally eaten... I thought that my neighbors spaniels got them as I am in the middle of town and hadn't had any issues in 2 years with my flock. I patched up my fence, locked up my girls, and assumed the problem was solved...
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    fart egg or is this normal for a new girl??

    So I got a tiny egg today. I don't think that it came from my australorps and the middle girls just started laying, but they're still a lot bigger than the tiny guy. Do bantams start laying earlier than large fowl, because I do have two bantam crosses that are right around 5 months old so I...
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    Advice please!

    So long story short, my bf and I are parting ways and I need to find a new place for my chickens and I to go. Luckily, we are parting on good terms so I can keep my girls in their current coop as long as necessary, and his cousin has offered to let me rent his place and move the ladies their...
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    When will we start laying!

    I think that they're right around 6 months. I didn't hatch them, so am uncertain. Light brahma, GLW, and I dunno what Mari is. Sold as an ameracauna... guessing SLW barnyard cross. Welcome any input on that as well!
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    Think I know the breed... verify gender please!!

    So the little girls are right around 5 months now I think. My conclusion is that they are silkie x millie fleur d'uccle , and I am pretty sure that they are both girls. They are both tiny, maybe a pound and a half? I dont have a food scale... I would just like to verify that they are both little...
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    First egg from the middle girls!!

    My australorps have been laying since february, but I have been waiting on pins and needles for my middle girls to lay. ( The middle girls should be the little girls, but I broke down and got two more a couple weeks after I brought them home... darned chicken math) The middle girls are a gold...
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    Brahma pullet plucking leg feathers??

    My light brahma pullet is plucking/breaking all of her leg feathers off.... Is there a possible reason or something I can do to make her stop?
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    d'ukies??? Lots of pictures!

    So my little girls are now just over 2 months old. Thought I was getting three day old silkies: I figured out at a little over a month that they weren't what I had thought... I'm guessing that they are silkiexd'uccle crosses as the lady I picked them up from had both. They were hatched out by a...
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    New paint job

    Found that it is much easier to get things done when DBF is out of town for the week. Got a late start but managed to get my tractor painted, add chicken wire, make a sand box, and paint part of my coop today. Went to the store intending to get pretty barn red paint, but was dismayed to discover...
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    When do I move them outside??

    I have two 5 week old banty chicks. I believe they are silkie crosses. I have them in a small tractor and have been moving them out into the yard during the daytime. They seem to be pretty well feathered, and I know my big girls were outside at this age, but they seem soooo little! I'm in...
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    Mari--- what is she??

    Mariposa was sold to me at around 4 weeks as an ameracauna... Hoped that meant she was going to be an easter egger, but am doubting it. I'm not sure on her comb, but it looks the same as my lt. brahma, so it is either a pea comb or they both have singles?? I'm guessing SLW cross, but wondering...
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    They have Chicken night shirts at Target!

    So its not a picture of a chicken, but I just got one of these at target... super cute and who doesnt need a nighty with a chicken on it!
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