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    Egg colors

    I've had my chickens for a year and a half now. I started out with one of those "deals" from Murray McMurray. 12 out of 25 made it and then my chicken population blew up to over 40!!! We had a dog come through and kill all but 16, which are all children of our original bunch. What's bizarre is...
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    I have too many chickens--what to do?

    HI, I started with 25 chicks from Mcmurray hatchery a year ago. About 15 made it. We had 3 ornery roosters that we ate. Then, for fun, I incubated some eggs, 6 more chickens. Then two mamas laid on their eggs-12 more chickens! Then a mama went broody (without us even knowing--we have 8 acres and...
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    New chicken Mama

    Hi! I am overrun with chickens! I incubated 6 chickens (now teenagers running around my yard) plus I had 12 and now I got a surprise from one of my hens! She's been sitting on a clutch and yesterday I went up and they were hatching! I can't count all of them yet, but so far she has 3 yellow and...
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    Mean Polish rooster

    I have a really mean Polish lilver laced rooster. He was really friendly until about a month ago. Now he flies out of the coop, chases me and has even spurred me. i've tried all the methods of making sure I'm "head chicken" but I'm worried he's going to hurt one of my kids. It's too bad because...
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