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I agree. Roosters are a dime a dozen! I had one that kept attacking all of us when we were out there feeding them or gather eggs. We kicked it, threw buckets (not as cruel as it sounds, since he was hard to reach). This would work for the moment and then start over. I've never found that...

one more thing, watch for the chickens piling up. Not only do the gnats smother the chickens by crawling in their nostrils, but the chickens will hide their faces under each other to keep the gnats out of their noses and then they end up smothering each other! it's horrible! We've lost...

that's right. Vanilla works. So does Listerine/ Scope mouth wash. I put them in spray bottles and spray the coop and the chickens several times a day. i think the vanilla is better, but the mouthwash is cheaper. Also, placing Bounce Fabric softener sheets around the coop and in nesting...

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I have Easter Eggers this same color. They lay green eggs. Some are "clean faced" and some have beards. Easter Eggers come in such a variety of colors, they are bound to look like another breed at some point. I even have a yellow legged Easter Egger that lays green eggs. The comb does look a...

Not to burst your bubble, but Easter Eggers are the hardest to sex! They have very little differences until the pointy hackle/ saddle feathers come in. I played this game for months last summer.

Oh that would be good. At least there is an end in sight. I just hope hope 3 matching hens have full beards by fair time. They're not very pretty right now.

I have Easter Eggers with bald beards. They are 10 months old and laying well. I have one rooster. There are two or three hens with beards intact, and I've never seen the plucking. I wondered if the rooster was doing that to them when he "catches" them. He can be kind of rough, but that...

Wow! Thanks for all the info. I have enough green egg layers, that a little variety would be nice. We're just very curious and like to speculate. I like the pick egg. We are planning some systematic solitary confinement soon to determine who lays it. We have one EE that has yellow legs...

We hatched chicks for the first time from our flock of Easter Eggers. Our Roo is and Easter Egger, and all the hens except one, are Easter Eggers. We have one Gold Star that lays big brown eggs. I wondered if anyone knew how the Easter Egger genes worked. Are they dominant? Will the cross...

I have 21 - 8 mo old EE pullet/hens and one rooster. Most of the girls have their beards plucked out. I assumed it was the rooster because he is pretty rough. I thought it was strange since it was front feathers, but sometimes he yanks them around so he can catch them. (He doesn't care at...

Yikes. Ours is still around $11 and a half. I'm still too cheap on my egg prices for that. I'm going to have to charge more. Ugh.

The Scratch at our local feed stores is more expensive than the regular Layer crumbles, so I see no point in it at all. I give chickens leftovers that they get all excited about, so I'm not going to get them used to some lavish treat they really don't need.

I've never had trouble with chickens of the same age that I raised together, whether they were different breeds or colors. It's just when I try to introduce new chickens to an existing flock that it gets tricky. You might try putting the new ones or the old ones in a cage inside the run for a...

I have 21 EE pullets and 1 EE rooster. I really like them. They did seem a little more scared of me than other chickens I have had in the past when they were young, but they got over it. Start bringing them table scraps and they will think you are the greatest. Their colors are so pretty, on...

I totally forgot you said that your old rooster was mean to PEOPLE! That is a horse of a different color. He would be on the chopping block, tough or not. You can use a crock pot to tenderize like someone else on here said. Peep might calm down a bit with the girls if he didn't have other...

I just had to have one of my roosters "put down" because he was being abused (no one wants to hear the details on that:sick) by the other rooster. I felt bad, but I didn't want to come out to the house and find him mangled. It seems kind of wrong to have kept the meanie, but this one had a...

I have an opossum that has snuck into the chicken house three days in a row. It can squeeze through the chicken fence! I have a covered run, but the chicken wire has gaps of 2X4 (approx) inches wide. I saw it do it. I've had to drag it out with a garden rake because it hides under the...

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what would you say is costing you so much?