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  1. Mechanic1987

    The Story of all my chickens :D

    Well we started out with about 15 and we got more had about.... maybe 25? well a dog got into our chicken coop in 08 and ate all of them only left one hen ... well shortly after she hatched 7 eggs and so we bought 30 more chickens so we now have 38 but we happened to get 3 roosters by accident...
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    Lost our Flock

    Two dogs broke in through our coop window which is 5 feet off the ground and killed 19 hens and two roosters. my daughter who is 11, they were here chickens. left us with one hen. Neighbor gave us twelve eggs because she was setting. Animal control came out and found the dogs, killed one and...
  3. Mechanic1987

    Energency-Chickn skull

    This afternoon I went out and found one of our New Hamshire reds; 4 months old with the back of its hed pecked away, and a bone protuding when she sounds. as we were Dr. her we noticed both sides of her back hollowed out. Looking at her she appearead fine. I noticed the open wound while I was...
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    Added to our Flock

    Our chickens are 0ne year old this month; and layed very well over the winter, orders for the eggs have kept coming in and my daughter Hannah (10 yrs old, they are hers) decided that we needed some more hens. We had 5 RIR, 4 White rocks, 3 Brown Leghorn hens, 1 Brown Leghorn Rooster. So last...
  5. Mechanic1987

    First double yoke

    Our Hens are producing 9 eggs a day from 11 hens. They are only using 2 of our 7 boxes. My daughter is excited she has sold 12 dozen eggs. One layed a double yoke the other day and she asked me will that become twins? Does anybody know or has anyone heard of twins hatching?
  6. Mechanic1987

    Question

    When I post I notice a "DOT" comes up beside my post to the left. What causes that? Can I change it? Thanky you,
  7. Mechanic1987

    layer pellots or mash?

    Since one of my hens has started laying at 19 weeks we are going to put them on layer- any preference between pellets and mash- next question how long before you should wait till the medicated feed is out of their system before you can eat the eggs? Thanks
  8. Mechanic1987

    Our First Egg

    My Daughter went out this morning to feed and water our chickens and laying by the feeder was an egg. She is 9 and they are her chickens, so you can imagine how excited she was. It was small, but it was her first egg. It was one of our Brown Legghorns they are 19 weeks.
  9. Mechanic1987

    12 Weeks and Doing Fine

    Thanks to all the help from friends in BYC, they are doing well. here are a few PICS. you can go to http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w46/mechanic1987/
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    Switching feed

    We need to buy some feed; we have 5 week olds, would it be ok to switch from medicated stater to grower now or buy the stater and switch at 8 weeks to grower. The way they eat now they will be finished with a bag of stater in 3 more weeks. Thank You,
  11. Mechanic1987

    One chick not growing

    I hope someone can help me; We have 5 RiR that we have had for 2 weeks, they have trippled in size. We also have four Brown Leghorns that we got 3 days later. The brown legghorns are growing at a slower rate but one is not much bigger than when we got her. we have 3 white rocks that we got a...
  12. Mechanic1987

    Nesting box help

    I'm building our coop and making plans for the nesting boxes. I found the pattern for the 4ft nesting box, How high should they be off the floor? and can you stack the boxes on top of each other? Thanks Ray
  13. Mechanic1987

    Building a coop and run

    Is it ok to use treated lumber in the coop and to hold the wire for the run? I have never heard any one address this, or I may have overlooked it. Thank you, Ray We have 5 RIR, 4 Brown Leghorns, 3 White rocks Some Pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/7493604@N08/
  14. Mechanic1987

    Beautiful day to let Chicks out Here

    Today the weather here is sunny and hot; so we let the chicks out for a while- tomorrow is suppose to be 90. They hve both sun and shade in the yard and we keep a close I on them. I have also notice in about 8 hours they can go through a quart of water. The RIR have already started putting on...
  15. Mechanic1987

    WHICH ROOSTER

    If we decide to get a rooster; which breed would be the best? We have Rhode Island Reds and Brown Leghorns. Would either breed rooster be fine? Thank You Ray Here are some Pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/7493604@N08/
  16. Mechanic1987

    First flock

    We decided to get some chickens, my 9 year old daughter was the instigator. So we now have 5 Rhode Island, and four Brown Leghorns in our brooder. We have begun construction on our coop. The last time I raised chickens with my dad was 35 years ago. I remember some things but it is pretty new. I...
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