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    Five Week EE - Girl or Boy?

    This little EE - here with his/her Orpington foster mom - is five weeks old today. I'd been thinking "Girl," but now that comb has me wondering . . . help!
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    Please Help: Odd Symptoms

    Hello. One of my pullets has looked decidedly "off" since early this morning, but I can't find a description of these symptoms anywhere. ~ She alternates between acting almost normal for a few minutes, and then standing still in a kind of puffed-up position. She doesn't have her usual busy...
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    Not Meaning to Ruffle Any Feathers, But . . .

    Good morning. Being new to chickens, I spend a fair amount of time researching breeds and breed characteristics. If I hear about a breed that sounds interesting, I'll often do a Google image search on it. So far so good, but here's the odd thing: it seems like every time I click on a really...
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    A Question About Cold Floors

    Okay. This is kind of a trivial problem, but it's been bothering me for a whole month, and I still don't know what to do. Time to ask the experts, I guess. I live in Maine, and I have three (super fluffy) Wyandotte pullets who free range from sun-up to sunset. They have a small (4'x7') coop...
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    Time for Fake Eggs?

    Good evening. My pullets (SLW) are now about 20 weeks old, and are starting to look quite grown up. One of them has developed a very bright comb and wattles, but hasn't shown any other signs of being ready to start laying. Should I put in the fake eggs now, or wait a bit? Thanks!
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    Winter Layers? Maybe Blue!

    Hello. I hadn't planned on adding to my teeny, tiny flock of three Wyandottes till next spring, but now I'm thinking that maybe it would be fun (er, I mean sensible and thrifty) to add three winter layers this fall. I've been searching breed descriptions, but am still completely undecided, so...
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    Storing Feed in Summer?

    Hello. I have three pullets currently eating Blue Seal Grower, and can't seem to find this feed in anything smaller than 25 lb bags. The 25 lb bag lasts more than a month, and I'm wondering whether it will go rancid in very hot weather. I've had high-fat/high protein horse feeds go bad in the...
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    Um, why . . . ?

    Okay. Totally noob question: Why are there so many threads asking what breed a chicken is? I would've thought that people would order their chickens from hatcheries by breed, and therefor pretty much know what they've got. What am I missing here?
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    Couch Potato Pullets

    Okay. I've had 3 pullets for about three weeks, and they're still reluctant to go outside. I very much want to have good old-fashion free ranging chickens, and I need expert advice! Here's the backstory: I bought these 3 at 10/11 weeks, from a Chicken Guy who keeps a gazillion birds in a...
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    A Very General Question About Breeds and Breeding

    I've only had chickens for a few weeks, but I can already see that the World of Chickens is way, waaay more complicated and fraught with controversy than I would ever have imagined! So. My question is about the whole business of "show quality" vs "ordinary" chickens, and what the general trends...
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    Complete Newbie Wants to Know: Any Roos Here?

    Okay. I think I've been reading too many BYC gender threads, because I'm now seeing roo-ish characteristics in all three of my new chickens - all bought as pullets. One is kinda big, one is kinda grouchy, one hasn't got the right sort of feathers . . . anyway, I thought I'd better ask the...
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