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  1. ILoveJoe

    Post here if you DON'T wash clean-looking eggs

    I did not wash eggs when my girls first started laying but over the past three years I am home less often to gather eggs as frequently and my girls always seem to find dirt and mud and track that onto the eggs. I rinse and will wash dirty ones and clean ones as well. I store my unwashed eggs...
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    Mama Chick Weaned Baby Chicks ?

    Thanks everyone. Nancy was a good mom while she was one. When I let them all out this morning, she is completely ignoring the chicks, who seem to have accepted the situation by staying away from her as well. I let the older chickens and the young chickens all out on pasture together, then...
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    Mama Chick Weaned Baby Chicks ?

    Is this the normal time frame? This is the first batch of chicks I have let a broody hen raise so I do not know what to expect. Broody hen hatched out 7 chicks on the 24th of September and is done with them as of this week. She is not laying yet but made it abundantly clear that she was tired...
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    Weird Roo Behavior?

    Hoss has done this for some of our hens. It seemed like he was offering encouragement as well as protection. Here he just stands while the black australorp lays and the buff orpington also seemed to be clucking and encouraging her.
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    Laying less eggs than normal?

    I have 36 hens all types of breeds and have never gotten 36 eggs in one day. I get an average of 2 dozen and some days only about 18. I expect the older hens to start a moult soon so they should quit laying and the young girls will hopefully NOT moult and I can continue to get some eggs...
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    broody hen....Should I take her out of the pen

    I am glad I found this topic, I have had the same questions. This is my 2nd year with chickens and the first time I am attempting to hatch my own eggs using a hen. I have a 7 month old Buff Orpington (Nancy) who has gone broody and after the 2nd day of arguing with her I decided to let her...
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    calling all IRISH and Irish descendants

    Irish here! Woot.
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    Tonight on PBS! "The Natural History of the Chicken"

    My hubby saw the end of it back in Feb and ordered the video from PBS so I could watch it. I love it. It touches on all aspects of chickens and it is done in a way that it makes people aware of how we get our eggs and food, without all the gory scary aspects.
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    Property Line Trees..UPDATE!

    Did either of your neighbors say WHY they wanted to include this tree? Do they think it is dying ir did the arborist say that it is dying? Something to be aware of.....trees often bloom prolifically right before they die. Anytime you trim a tree you put that tree under stress, it has to put...
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    Too many chickens-not enough space-cannibalism graphic pic

    Quote: I was feeling her rear end today and it is almost all covered with little feathers. I am amazed she survived. My little Speckles.
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    Too many chickens-not enough space-cannibalism graphic pic

    Quote: It happened because I have/had too many chickens in too small of an area. Since I have been letting them out to free range, they stopped this behavior. She was in with her own age group and Hoss, the older roo. He didn't pick at them, he studiously ignored them.
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    Too many chickens-not enough space-cannibalism graphic pic

    This is my 2nd year with chickens and sadly I made a newbie mistake that caused harm to one of my chickens. I have 17 chickens from the first batch, two of which are roo's. In the second batch I had 33. The first set lives in one half of the coop and this year's set in the other with Hoss the...
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    Five Little Roosters Went on a Field Trip...or...I used a Processor!

    Quote: Cute names. I like old fashoined names for my girls, like Edith and Edna and Hazel...etc.
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    Pic Heavy.... my duckies outside the pen for the first time today

    Beautiful! I like your coop, it looks really nice.
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    Five Little Roosters Went on a Field Trip...or...I used a Processor!

    Quote: I may have some issues....
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    Five Little Roosters Went on a Field Trip...or...I used a Processor!

    Quote: Perhaps you are easily amused... Thanks, it was meant to be light hearted. For your viewing pleasure, Barbara Jeans feet: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o138/IloveJoe_photo/chickens/DSC_0006-5.jpg Oh I am easily amused!!! Simple minds, simple pleasures!!! LOVE THE FEET..Poor...
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    Five Little Roosters Went on a Field Trip...or...I used a Processor!

    Quote: Perhaps you are easily amused... Thanks, it was meant to be light hearted. For your viewing pleasure, Barbara Jeans feet:
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    Five Little Roosters Went on a Field Trip...or...I used a Processor!

    Out of my batch of chicks that hatched the week of Valentines Day...5 turned out to be roosters. One as a hatchery bird and the others were from my own birds. All dual purpose. We have a poultry farm in the area called Tewes Poultry and they charge 1.75 ea. On the 14th I packed up the boys...
  19. ILoveJoe

    Young rooster doesn't crow

    Dougie was about 9 months old when he started to crow. It was comical at first, but he is getting better at it and not sounding like he is strangling.
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    Are people really this ignorant about chicken biology?

    Quote: I was not unobservant. I knew how dogs and humans mated - I wasn't born knowing that chickens work the same way. I think sometimes people will grasp onto anything just to feel superior to others. It is the superiority thing. I bet those "stupid RN's" have little tidbits of info that...
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