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    Copper Marans on strike, with an occasional tease.

    I have a Black Copper Maran and a Blue Copper Maran. Both are right at a year old. They started laying in late January, and laid a couple of times a week for the first few weeks. The Black Copper started laying first and was more consistent. The Blue Copper always laid her egg beside the nest...
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    Broody pullet on an empty nest

    We have an 9 month old Splash Orpington pullet that is perfectly content to sit on an empty nest. She is not stealing anyone's eggs or trying to sit on anyone's eggs and she isn't laying any of her own. This is her second time doing this. The first time was about8 weeks ago. We broke her pretty...
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    Another integration question, chicks, some, teens, and some adults...

    Here is the setup. We have a run that has a fence with a gate dividing it into two sections. In the smaller side, but still probably 7x8 we have our mamma hen with the six chicks she raised. They are almost six weeks old and she is starting to get tired of them. Today, I tossed out some...
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    Where to put them...

    I own some chickens with a friend and coworker who lives around the corner from me. We have seven two week old chicks in a run with their mamma and 6 adult hens in a separate area. They can see them, but not interact and this seems to work well. Three of the new chicks were grafted to the mamma...
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    Sudden difference in sze of Wyandotte chicks

    We have nine chicks, eight of which are five weeks old. Our Silkie is 6 weeks old. Last night we noticed that one of the Silver Laced Wyandottes, Lacey, was suddenly quite a bit smaller than the other one (we have two). They have always been the same size until the last couple of days. We have...
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    Enjoying the run and discovering watermelon

    After several attempts at offering watermelon, the girls finally decided it was something good today. This was after I had convinced them this morning that yellow squash was good (by breaking off tiny bits and letting them run around showing it off). Watermelon is now on it's way to becoming a...
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    Finally found their favorite treat...

    It is dry oatmeal. I'm lucky to not have holes in my hand from all the pecking. The funniest part was when one of the chicks decided to go around, jump on my arm and walk down to my wrist to get to the food that way. She's the smart one, and also the houdini who has escaped a couple of times!
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    You know you are hooked on Backyard Chickens when...

    Your email inbox keeps getting filled up with messages from threads you are subscribed to! This site is incredible and has been a goldmine of information for someone who knew absolutely nothing about raising chickens a month ago. This is so much fun! Now, if I can just find a cure for chicken...
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    Pecking order...

    The decision was made to get a different feeder since the round one, along with the round water bowl took up so much floor space on the brooder. I told my co-worker, Lou Ann, that I would stop and pick up the feeder. (Note to self-do not go to Feed and Seed store near downtown. It is definitely...
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    And so it has begun....

    My co-worker, who lives one street over, has been wanting to get some chickens for the last few months. She has begun working on the coop and run already. We "just so happened" to stop at the Feed and Seed store on Friday to see what they had as far as variety of chicks. Well, we left with...
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    Black Star Chicks-roos

    If a Black Star hen is not bred with a Black Star rooster, can you still tell the roos by the white spot on the head? I didn't know if this only pertained to the ones that were full Black Star or if it was the same if a Black Star was bred with a RIR or other rooster, maybe EE. My neighbor has...
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    Chickens? Me?

    Never in a million years did I think I would be joining a forum about chickens! I had no idea just how addictive they could become. I live in Greenville, SC and actually am not the owner of any chickens (yet) but my neighbor has them. My co-worker has plans to get chicks soon and she lives one...
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