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    Sexing Legbar Chicks and Identifying the Icelandic!

    Will you all kindly help me identify the Icelandic chick in the mix and then provide your thoughts on the sexes of the remaining legbars? They are opal legbar roo over opal and cream legbar hens. Thanks!
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    Fermenting chicken feed, Good idea?

    I think I've found my groove with fermented feed. I have a Folgers coffee container on my counter fermenting their grains. Every evening, I grab it and a pasta scoop (don't know what it's actually called but a big ladel with holes in it to drain the liquid.) I scoop out about half the container...
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    Broody Hen and Hatching Day!

    All but one of the eggs hatched (it didn't make it to pipping stage)! We did pick her up once to clean up a massive poop she did in the nest, and we saw her get up from the eggs a couple of times which gave us the opportunity to monitor things a bit and remove hatched eggs. It got cold through...
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    Broody Hen and Hatching Day!

    The humidity outside is 91% today, I don't have a meter inside the coop but expect it to be similar with our setup.
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    Broody Hen and Hatching Day!

    Hi all, Today is day 21 under a first-time broody hen (oh, the excitement!!) She is just a baby herself (hatched in April) so we weren't expecting much from her. Although I'm not sure we should have, we picked her up this morning to see if anything was happening and sure enough, one of the eggs...
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    Hello from Alberta, Canada!

    Hi everyone, my name is Ally and I'm a newish chicken mom! In April, we acquired 5 laying hens and 8 day old chicks. We had a wonderful summer learning all about raising young chickens and caring for our laying girls. We are now heading into our first Canadian winter with them (with a few...
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