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  1. Myjenny

    Automatic coop door specifics

    Looking for an automatic, programmable door opener/closer that will work on either of these coop doors. The screen one, or the square one. I work 2 hrs from home, hubby has upcoming business trips, and our son is moving out in a month. No one will be home to let them in and out after that. I...
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    Official BYC Poll: What Do Your Chickens Live In?

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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Coop Smelling Fresh?

    Chickens don’t have noses!
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    Official BYC Poll: How Often Do You Clean Your Coop?

    Less in the summer, the nights in Seattle are short. More often as it gets dark and rainy=more time in the roost. I have a pull out drawer with plastic trays. No bedding, they use ladders and hop to get to the roosts so no feet in poop. The poop dries up in the summer and shrinks; in winter it’s...
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    What Did I Just Bring Home?

    Baby #3 has olive legs, so maybe some colored Easter eggs!
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    prallethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin and eggs

    Unbeknownst to me, my DH sprayed a nest of wood ants with the above mentioned pesticides while cleaning and burning some old lumber in the backyard. It was Spectracide Wasp and Hornet Spray. He later informed me how great it was that our theee laying hens were having such fun chasing and eating...
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    Pullet Laying Eggs From Perch

    Thanks! I’ll give it a while, I usually have to keep chickens OUT of the boxes! And no, I don’t light them.
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    Pullet Laying Eggs From Perch

    Hello, I live in the Seattle, WA area, and this is my third batch of chickens since 2014, so I have some experience. However, Patty is stumping me. She is a Golden Comet, or Red Star, 5 months old (that breed has many names). I have had them before; and they lay the biggest brown egg almost...
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    EE stopped laying.... why?

    I am having much the same problem. My Arucana suddenly stopped laying and hasn't for a week now. I live near Seattle, and the days are rapidly getting longer. I have 6 chickens, and most days I get 4-6 eggs. One day I got 7??!! Lucy started laying when everyone else did, but abruptly stopped...
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    Are a Silver Leghorn and a Cream Legbar the same thing?

    OK, cool! I was debating on getting some EE's next Spring, now I don't have to. Thanks a bunch!
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    Are a Silver Leghorn and a Cream Legbar the same thing?

    Here are some close ups of Lucy's comb. Is it a pea comb? Also, she has olive-colored feet. I think she may definitely be an Easter Egger masquerading as a Golden-Laced. They are blue-er than this pic shows.
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    Are a Silver Leghorn and a Cream Legbar the same thing?

    Here is Ethel, the Silver Leghorn. See, no crest at all.
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    Are a Silver Leghorn and a Cream Legbar the same thing?

    OK here are some photos. The pic doesn't do them justice, the eggs are really a nice shade of sky blue. Here is Lucy.
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    Are a Silver Leghorn and a Cream Legbar the same thing?

    I chose them from the flock on this farm, they only had the two types of pullets. I just picked the largest, healthiest looking one from each type and took them home. I wonder if there was a CL in their shipment, but doesn't seem likely since they are so rare and expensive. Probably the other...
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    Are a Silver Leghorn and a Cream Legbar the same thing?

    OK, tomorrow I will get a photo of each and try to post them on here. I had to work today, but my hubby said that the Golden Wyadotte (?) was in the nest box that had the blue egg, but I assumed that she wouldn't be laying yet, as her comb is so small. I will (try to) post pics of both tomorrow...
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    Are a Silver Leghorn and a Cream Legbar the same thing?

    Hi, ANy info on this would be helpful. Last March I bought two chickens from a farm a few miles from my house. I got the impression that they had ordered 100+ chicks from a hatchery, got them up in size a little, and were doubling or tripling their investment. I got a Golden-laced Wyandotte and...
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    Black Poop?

    Actually, I have the same thing! I have 2 Buff Orps, a RIR, a Barred Rock, and a Golden Comet, a Golden Laced Wyandotte, and a Silver Leghorn. I have noticed that one egg each day or so is "stained" black or dark green as if ink was on it. Then, I noticed a black, tarry poop on the cement...
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    is something wrong with my RIR???

    I would check for mites and give her a good dusting of Diatomaceous Earth!
  19. Myjenny

    Barred Rock Egg Size and Skipping a Day

    Thanks for the info, all! I had a "Penny egg" at the usual time this morning!
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    Barred Rock Egg Size and Skipping a Day

    Hi, My Barred Rock "Penny" started laying at 23 -24 weeks. She laid a very small but perfect egg every day for 19 days, between 9:30 and 11 AM. But today there was no egg! Weather is perfect, nothing weird happened to them yesterday, they all got their snacks and petted as usual, etc. My...
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