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    Mystery clutch of eggs

    Definitely not snake or turtle. I am leaning towards old and dried out. It really does seems as if some animal had possibly hidden them under the coop and then pushed them back out. I have a trail cam. I think I'll set it up tonight to see if anything is digging around the coop. We had a...
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    Newbie - needing advice re a stubborn broody!

    I have 2 ameraucanas that will go broody for 6 weeks or longer. I toss them out of the nest box every day and they go right back. I'll lock them up in our baby run and they'll cry until I am worried about bothering the neighbors. They are also my spastic birds that lose their minds if I go...
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    Mystery clutch of eggs

    My husband went out to cut the grass and found a pile of 7 eggs. They're pretty dirty, so it's hard to tell if they are from our chickens or from the wild ducks that enjoy hanging out in our back yard. If they are chicken eggs, they would not be fertile. If they are duck eggs, they would be...
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    My Ameraucanas are drama queens!

    Good point...I won't sweat it. We're in the middle of building a new chicken coop and i was just mentioning to my husband that we could probably fit 20 chickens in there. He wasn't amused.
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    My Ameraucanas are drama queens!

    Yeah...I started looking around today and the difference seems to be hand-raised vs. broody-raised. The consensus seems to be that chickens raised by a hen rather than by people tend to be much more skittish.
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    My Ameraucanas are drama queens!

    I have two Ameraucanas which were hatched and raised (along with a Light Sussex) by my Buff Orpinton. In addition to the three "babies," I have 5 chickens which are one year older. The older chickens were purchased as day old chicks and raised by us. The older ones are fairly calm, and come...
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    Egg Color Determination

    I think our sliding door is like their big screen TV. They stand there and watch us all the time. I've left the door open to see if they would come inside, and they stick their heads in to look around, but they've never stepped foot inside. Probably for the best. Besides these 5, I also have...
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    Egg Color Determination

    https://www.facebook.com/#!/erika.harrison.524 I have a picture of my 5 oldest girls on my facebook. The 2nd and 3rd from the left are the Easter Eggers. The darker one lays cream colored eggs and the lighter one lays green eggs.
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    Egg Color Determination

    I have 2 Easter Eggers (that look nearly identical) hatched from the same brood, one lays a green egg and one lays a cream colored egg. I wanted blue eggs, so I ordered pure Ameraucanas the next time around.
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    Wow...Broody Light Sussex at only 7 months?

    Darn it, she's at it again. I caught her just laying on the ground last night where the nest used to be. I put her on the perch with the other chickens. This morning, she was back in the same spot. I picked her up, petted her, gave her some worms...but she goes back to the same spot when I...
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    Wow...Broody Light Sussex at only 7 months?

    She's not even 7 months old yet and has only been laying for about 8 weeks. But she's definitely gone broody. I found her in one of the nests with 6 eggs. She had been in there for a few hours, and fluffed up and trilled when I tried to move her. I don't need a broody right now, so I scooped...
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    Anyone else find their back yard invaded by all sorts of animals?

    Yeah, I know. I keep putting blocks of wood across any new holes he has dug, but my next step is to break out my son's sling shot. I figure getting beaned with some acorns a couple times might discourage him.
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    Anyone else find their back yard invaded by all sorts of animals?

    We got our first 5 chickens last year. We noticed that a couple of neighborhood cats seem to enjoy relaxing in our yard from time to time, and neither they nor the chickens seemed bothered by it. Then our neighbor's mini-lop bunny decided to take up residence with us, rather than stay in his...
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