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  1. Indy

    For the new folks that haven't experienced a molt yet.

    My chicken coop, run and even the yard look like the birds have suffered a terrible predator attack! The birds just look pitiful. I had ISA Browns first time around and they never really moulted too badly - now I have some other sex links and 2 Rhode Island Reds and they all are looking...
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    My girls won't roost in their brand new coop at night...

    I recently got 5 new pullets and on their first night in the coop/run they found a 2 x 2 in the run to snuggle up on so that is where they were. What I did eventually is cover or remove/block any other choices other than the roosts in the coop. But that one night I had to pick them up one by...
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    Can chickens eat too much?

    I just got some pullets two weeks ago and about a week after they came in, one of them started going off her feed. She became very lethargic and didn't really eat much. I finally took her out of the run and put her in a large dog carrier with all the accoutrements and put her in a shed and...
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    An apocolypse herd/flock

    There is kind of an interesting book out called Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs by Wendy Brown. Her premise is that if you had 21 days notice of the end of civilization (as we know it) what would you need to do in order to be prepared? Considering that there is no oil. Topics like...
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    Monster egg!!

    I had an egg about that size from one of my ISA Browns recently. Same thing...way too big for a jumbo egg carton and I winced on behalf of whichever girl laid that one! Mind you one girl (I only have 4) had not laid the day before so she must have been working up to it. The egg had two...
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