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    Here we go again!

    Since I only had one B.R. left, I thought I'd try, again! My husband has built a chicken house. He still has the run to build. He told me the doors on the house, now, are temporary. He has a lot of work to do. I don't know when he'll find time to finish it. Anyway, I bought 12 babies. Six are...
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    I found an Old cabinet incubator - Sears Roebuck farm master

    I fell in love with an incubator I saw on FB, locally. I contacted the woman and went as fast as I could to go get it. I handed her $250.00 for it. Then, before our husbands loaded it, her husband plugged it up to show me that it still worked. It didn't really matter to me, but it was a definite...
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    What is lesperance?
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    I haven't hatched any chicks at all. I bought my BR's at a feed and seed. Mine were black with a white spot on top of their head. I would like to know the outcome to this!
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    The Old Folks Home

    I am...old...ish. I am married, at times...very happily. I have 3 sons. The oldest is married with a child. The middle is a Marine stationed in another state. The youngest is still here. He shares my love of chickens but, he's not too much into the dirty work that's involved: I had 8 hens and a...
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    Your Dixie sounds like my Scruffy. She is my avatar. When I picked out my chicks I picked 2 from each breed the feed store had on hand. Two were rocks. One was dominant and the other passive. The passive hen is the only survivor of the initial 8. She's been attacked twice. Both times, I thought...
  7. This is Thunder Chicken's after picture. He was bloody. I checked him and he wasn't injured. I don't know if the blood came from the hen that was killed or the predator. I should have put them all in the IBC because I knew we were on high alert for predators. I had put my sweet hens in an IBC that I rigged for maximum protection. It seemed like my chicken pen was just a feeding trough for the predators. Once we killed a 'possum and a raccoon, I thought they would be okay. I still didn't want to put them in the pen, though. I felt like they had a better chance outside. Then, came the dogs. We couldn't catch a break.

    This is Thunder Chicken's after picture. He was bloody. I checked him and he wasn't injured. I don't know if the blood came from the hen that was killed or the predator. I should have put them all in the IBC because I knew we were on high alert for predators. I had put my sweet hens in an IBC that I rigged for maximum protection. It seemed like my chicken pen was just a feeding trough for the predators. Once we killed a 'possum and a raccoon, I thought they would be okay. I still didn't want to put them in the pen, though. I felt like they had a better chance outside. Then, came the dogs. We couldn't catch a break.

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  8. This is Thunder Chicken. He was a gift from a very nice neighbor. It was her last chicken. He was a warrior. This is his before battle picture. He was so beautiful and white. It was taken when I first put him in the pen. I kept him with a couple of my stronger hens just to see the extent of his reputation for being "a mean one".

    This is Thunder Chicken. He was a gift from a very nice neighbor. It was her last chicken. He was a warrior. This is his before battle picture. He was so beautiful and white. It was taken when I first put him in the pen. I kept him with a couple of my stronger hens just to see the extent of his reputation for being "a mean one".

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  9. This was my first dozen...a couple of years, ago. I didn't expect to feel so excited, being that my childhood was so much "work" on the farm. I always loved the animals, though, even back then. Getting the eggs, to me, has always been my personal Easter egg hunt. Predators did a smash and grab on some eggs. I found eggshells and busted eggs in the house on the wooden floor.

    This was my first dozen...a couple of years, ago. I didn't expect to feel so excited, being that my childhood was so much "work" on the farm. I always loved the animals, though, even back then. Getting the eggs, to me, has always been my personal Easter egg hunt. Predators did a smash and grab on some eggs. I found eggshells and busted eggs in the house on the wooden floor.

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    Dacusville, S.C.- Mary Sue's House

    Hello all! Thank you for the warm welcome! I look forward to finding some great predator proofing tips. Hopefully, I will get my spark back. After the disappearance/mutilation of my chickens, I'm hesitant. It's heartbreaking to go into your pen and find a chicken that you raised from a chick...
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    Dacusville, S.C.- Mary Sue's House

    Hello! Mary Sue here! I'm hail from the city of Easley, S.C. I tried not to have any animals at all because of all the work I had to do "on the farm" when I was young. I don't know how far back in my family the chicken rearing goes, to my personal knowledge, it goes back to my grandfather. All I...
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