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    What are the worst pictures you have of your chickens? Please post them !

    a wet Alexis a molting Repecka (I think she’s getting uglier everyday)
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    is putting chickens in their coop too early a problem?

    20 minutes doesn’t feel like a change in time at all. we’ve been known to put them in up to 3hrs before dark on the off chance that we actually have plans off farm. they don’t love it, but they live! we’ll get the odd extra grumbly one but I just think of it as a teenager getting mad at their...
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    Hot but breezy

    our summers aren’t what they used to be! some really like it, others not so much. I try to keep it topped up with ice cause that way even the ones who aren’t getting in it so like to drink from it. it’s like a big puddle for them.
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    Hot but breezy

    hello also from Ontario, but in the opposite corner of you (Southwestern)! I am glad nothing came of the tornado watch for you guys in the east. last summer we had a couple heat related deaths in our Wyandotte coop which were very sad. we relooked at our air circulation and ventilation and...
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    Aggressive Rooster problem

    get rid of him and if you want a rooster for your girls, find them a gentleman. good roos are out there 🤗
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    Broody made a mess of the nest on day 18

    she is a better incubator than me that’s for sure! we are fully committed to the broody hatch when it comes to adding to our own flocks from here on out. we started by letting Foxy hatch three early on in the spring and their integration has been a breeze. and there’s just nothing sweeter than...
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    Broody made a mess of the nest on day 18

    9 little babes out of her 11! she has gotten off the last 2 eggs, so I candled them and they seem to have quit somewhere along the line. I only candled around day 9 for fertility and removed 1 then, so they could of stopped developing at any point since then.
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    Keeping mixed sizes of chickens

    we have a small bantam cross raising 3 orp chicks right now - they’re already as tall as she is and half her size at a few weeks old! I’m crossing my fingers that one or two of them are hens that I’ll keep in the hen house and I hope they’ll be Foxy’s bodyguards for life 🤗 to OP: our main hen...
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    Broody made a mess of the nest on day 18

    3 chicks hatched a day early, so off to a good start and hoping for a good outcome for the remaining 8! the black one on the left is Pete (Svarthona/Ameraucana) x an Olive Egger (Maran based I believe), the all black is Pete x Wednesday Adamms (Fibro EE) and the light chick on it’s own is Pete...
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    Chicken plans

    we have 2 homemade exterior coops that I have some changes to make on now that we’ve been using them for a while. the first one needs a different style of run built (there’s no way way to access the run currently and I hate that) and it needs the roosts modified. the 2nd has a superior run but I...
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    Broody made a mess of the nest on day 18

    that’s what I like to hear, thanks! they should start hatching by Wednesday so hopefully all will be well 🤗
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    Fertilizing Eggs

    love your white flock! we were only able to find Partridge Chantecler in our area, but so far they have been a delight to watch grow and we hope they’re a big part of our dual purpose meat flock. I mostly loved that they were a Canadian breed!
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    My son opened the incubator!

    ain’t that the truth! I feel like a kid on christmas day when we get close to hatch time!! currently have a broody ready to hatch any day now and I am pretty sure she’s sick of seeing my face pop into her area.
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    My son opened the incubator!

    what day are you on? a quick open isn’t gonna hurt anything! make sure your temp and humidity are good and let those little fluff ball pip and zip their way into the world 🤗
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    Marek’s now what

    my understanding is that marek’s lives in the environment for months after the chickens are gone and I don’t know of a “test” to check if it’s gone. someone else or the internet might have a exact timeframe for you! sorry to hear about your flock!
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    Broody made a mess of the nest on day 18

    we did all of the above, but was hard to get the poop off the eggs. I was also pretty worried about manhandling them and risking cracking them at this point🙈 Sprinks has feathered feet, so I used a wet towelette to help her there and then a quick brush. she went the bathroom off nest and did a...
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    Easter egger and Olive egger. Any difference?

    I don’t think they have to be Ameraucana based although I know some hatcheries do go that route. my understanding is that an OE is just a breed pairing to create an olive egg (ie CCL x BCM) and an Easter Egger is just a barnyard mix of coloured layers that can pretty much lay any colour of the...
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    6 new babies! Chicken Math lol

    we live in Canada (you can order chicks to pick up at feed stores, but they don’t just have random ones to sell), but in a border area so we cross to go to TSC for a lot of stuff. it’s very difficult to talk myself out of smuggling chicks home when I see them in those bins.
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    CALLING ALL ORPINGTON OWNERS!

    I snuck a dozen purchased eggs into our “last hatch of the season”. I was only supposed to set our own eggs and sell everything that hatches.. he went in to check on the humidity last night and asked if it was normal for eggs to multiply 😂
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    CALLING ALL ORPINGTON OWNERS!

    we love raising Lavender and Buff Orpingtons! they are a superstar dual purpose birds. our gals lay large brown eggs and the cockerels grow fast enough to process. I have an Orp wish list of colours I want in our hen house, but if I hatch out anything else this year my partner is going to kill me!
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