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    No eggs for a month, now rubber eggs or "deflated" eggs?

    We allowed our broody hen to hatch and raise a baby chick, it's doing great and growing fast! She is a good mother and very protective. For about a month, while the chick was very small... none of our hens were laying. We don't know if momma was chasing them out of the box, or if the weather...
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    New baby chick, broody mom... one crushed chick :(

    We finally have our first baby chick, it hatched today successfully. There had been two eggs in the box. The first egg got "crushed" or trampled, we're not sure by which chicken or why. The second egg... when it started hatching we brought it into the house and carefully watched it and kept...
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    First harvest, very little meat and tough

    Hi all, Well we decided to cull one of our Rhode Island Reds, she was about 18 months old and had a bad habit of escaping and running off into the woods. We didn't want her to teach any of the new hens that bad habit. Killed her with an axe, let the blood drain, and immediately plucked and...
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    Bad-smelling chicken

    Hey all, We recently got four new hens. I was disappointed when they were dropped off. They weren't in the best of shape when we got them; all had leg mites and were skinny and dirty and had been living in a cage that was coated with droppings. So far they are doing better, putting on some...
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    Wanting Plymouth Rock hens or pullets, Tazewell VA area

    Anyone selling Plymouth Rock hens or pullets? I need 2-3 more egg layers. I'm in Tazewell County, VA and would prefer to just pick them up over shipping. Contact me? Thanks
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    What are they? Can you tell me?

    We got our two hens at a flea market, not sure what they are, can you tell me? And the old rooster... he showed up one day in my neighbor's tree, not sure at all what he is. Can you help me figure out what breed these birds are? Both hens lay brown eggs and the rooster has grey legs and no...
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    Orange Yolks

    I'm pretty new to raising chickens, this is the first year I've had them. They lay very pretty brown eggs and I notice the yolks are orange. Not like the pale yellow you see in the stores. Is that a good thing? The eggs themselves are the tastiest eggs I've ever had. The chickens are free...
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    How we got started with raising chickens...

    It all started when my neighbor found a nearly frozen-to-death rooster in her tree after a fierce snowstorm that dumped about a foot of snow here. We got him out of the tree, fed him, and now my neighbor loves him and calls him "Doodle." We have our own name for him, "Henry the Red." We have...
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    Hi from Bishop, VA

    Hi All, I'm new here and glad to have joined. We have a "mini farm" in Bishop, VA which is in beautiful coal country SW Virginia (and a stone's throw from West Virginia). I'm also new to raising chickens, but so far they have been very easy to take care of and keep. Anyway, I hope you're...
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    Could he be a "fighting" cock?

    Hey all, I'm new here and also new to raising chickens. So far they have been great and we enjoy fresh eggs from them daily. Over the winter, during one of those really bad snowstorms we had here... went outside and was very surprised to see a nearly frozen-to-death rooster in my neighbor's...
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