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    Racoon tried to carry off one of my girls!

    I heard screaming, growling, clucking noises in my yard and ran down to investigate. Horrid raccoons! One of them broke into my hen house and tried to drag my hen Sparrow away. In my rage, I threw my son's little red wagon at it a la "Hulk smash! style. Did a headcount at the henhouse and when...
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    Tail Pulling Hen Bullies

    I've noticed my 3 slightly older pullets (I raised them together) will sneak up behind my two younger BR pullets and yank their tail feathers. They're not going as far as to deliberately pluck them out - they just seem to enjoy startling the youngsters & getting them to squawk. I've seen one of...
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    How does latitude affect fall & winter laying

    Today I got 3 eggs out of 4 (possibly) 5 layers. This is a bit unusual; lately I've been averaging 2 a day, but a couple of weeks ago it was 3 a day. I wonder if I'm beginning to see a reduction in egg production because of the increasingly shorter days. I live in San Francisco so I'm not sure...
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    Non-Laying Pullet is Hogging the Nesting Box

    I've noticed something strange the last few days. Buffy, the last of my laying age pullets to not lay eggs has been aggressively sweating the other girls when they go in to use the nest box. She either sits inside the coop, directly outside the nest box, staring at the girls who are trying to...
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    Is my Wellie about to start laying?

    Bertha, my 24 week old Wellsummer has been acting strangely today. She has been "talking" all day long (more like shouting, really), so much that I went down to check on her twice. She's always been more vocal than the other hens but she's really upped the ante today. Normally she quiets down...
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    I'm so @#$!! sick of these shell-less eggs

    It's been over a week and I haven't gotten one useful egg out of the only chicken who is laying. Everyday I find the remains of shell-less eggs that have gone splat on the floor of the hen house. I know that she's not just eating the eggs because I never find any shells, just yolk & membrane...
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    Mutant Eggs

    So far Rosie (RIR) is the only confirmed layer amongst my 3 laying age pullets. I say this because I keep finding the remains of nude eggs in the coop a few times a week, sometimes at the same time I'm collecting one of Rosie's. The shell-less egg never in the right spot - it looks like whoever...
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    Pre-laying behavior (warning: kinda gross)

    I had my first egg the day before yesterday & don't know which of my hens is responsible. Today when I was out in the run, I tossed some feed & scratch out for them to forage. As they paced around pecking, I noticed that Rosie's bum was pulsating, like she was trying to have a big poop. She...
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    Rosie, the Backyard Cat Bully

    Sonoma, my cat had finally caught and killed a mouse he'd been stalking for hours. He was having a lot of fun playing with the unfortunate rodent's remains - tossing it up, pouncing on it, batting it around - when Rosie (a RIR), walked up to him and snatched up the mouse. Sonoma hesitantly tried...
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    My "A" Frame Chicken Tractor of Shame

    So I've got three 16-week pullets and two 9-week old chicks. The big girls bully the little 'uns, so I thought that I'd finally build the A-frame tractor I had been too intimidated to try earlier. Started with the frame, hardware cloth, bird netting, a tarp, and some plywood. I braced the...
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    Making a Chain-link Chicken Run Look Attractive

    So, I decided to go with the most cost-effective chicken run option, a chain-link dog run. Thing is, I hate chain-link anything - I think the stuff is unbelievably ugly. Any suggestions as to how to make the chicken run more pleasing to the eye? Thanks!!
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    How easy is it to re-home a Roo?

    One of my 4 week old Welsummers is beginning quite different from the other girls - bigger, pinker comb, emerging red wattles, short stumpy tail feathers, odd bald spots on the wing joints ( where shoulder blades would be on a person) different feather patterns from the other Wellie. I think...
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    A crisis of conscience

    I got a coupon for a free egg laying hen with my chicken coop. I don't really want to add another chicken to the mix, but the story is tugging at my heartstrings - the hens are rescues from a factory farm. What to do? The hens are currently at the Marin SPCA which means (I assume) that the ones...
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    Momentary Panic

    I was tossing and turning last night, fretting about what I'm going to do for a enclosure for my chicks. I got a call that the coop has arrived and I will pick it up this morning. It is not enclosed whatsoever, so I will have to build an enclosed run to go under it. Did I mention that I don't...
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    Gave the girls their first field trip yesterday ...

    and since then they have been full of posturing, faux fighting and attempts to escape from the brooder. I guess that means that they liked it? Are they getting close to ready to move outdoors? The weather is getting slowly warmer here in San Francisco. We've been fluctuating between ~50 - 60...
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    Hiya! I'm Michelle AKA Echolalia

    The Questions: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? In some ways I'm new to chickens - I bought my first chicks 2 weeks ago. In other ways, I'm not. Both of my parents were raised on farms and I was fortunate enough to have visited the family farm several times over...
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    Monster chick = Roo?

    I bought my girls (?), Ether, Bertha (Welsummers), Buffy & Rosie (Rhode Island Red) a week and a half ago as 3 day old chicks. The feed store said that their chicks had a 96% chance of being hens. At the time they were all, more or less, the same size. At 12 days old, however, one of the...
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    One of my chick has weird looking poop

    I just bought my first set of chicks on Sunday. They all seem to be heathy and active, but I'm concerned about one thing - poop. Most of their poops look like your average bird poop. One of the girls, however, has been making these ochre (rusty brown) colored, pudding-like poops. I haven't...
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