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    Bantam chick maturing vs standard

    Thanks! I think I have to wait a bit yet to determine breed. I ordered 6 Ameraucana and 6 hatchery choice but only got 11 birds which is why I am puzzling over which is who!!! I know Ameraucana come in different colorings and have a gray bird I am thinking might be one. The one I think is...
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    Bantam chick maturing vs standard

    Sure! The white one in the middle. I am still guessing as to what breed the whites are. All are 8 weeks old. Believe the one on left in back is cochin. The other is Ameraucana, right?
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    Bantam chick maturing vs standard

    OK! I have Ameraucana, Cochin and 5 of unknown breed. I am hoping as the 5 get their adult feathers in I will know what they are. It is the Ameraucana that is trying to crow, and one of the unknowns.
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    Bantam chick maturing vs standard

    Hello chicken experts! This is my first time raising bantams. My question is: do they mature at a faster rate than standards? My flock is just 8 weeks old and already I have "crowers" which I am sure are cockerels. I am fairly certain my previous standards never announced their male identity...
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    Hens with pink feet

    Thanks! That is what I was hoping someone would say. They are all seemingly healthy and are laying up a storm--the pinkness just appeared today (or I just noticed it!) so I wanted to get a jump on it if it was a negative thing.
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    Hens with pink feet

    Hope some one has some insight for me! I noticed this morning that my matriarch Light Brahma has pink in between her toes. Then I noticed that my Rhode Island Red does, also. The scales don't seem to be raised, they don't seem to be limping, any ideas? I only have two other hens and their feet...
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    Today's temperature = # of eggs.

    Here in Vermont it was --20 this morning, but 22 in the coop, as I stuck a little heater in there for them! 6 hens, 1 egg only and that was from our Rhode Island Red.
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    Randy Rooster

    I have one rooster (a year old this month) and six hens. He is very "attentive" to his ladies and I would like to know if there is a slowing down as he gets older or as the days get warmer. Also, how do I know when the hens have had enough? I have coats on all but two--one is Baby who rarely...
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    Post here if you DON'T wash clean-looking eggs

    Weighing in on the egg washing debate--I only wash them if they were laid on the floor and got into the poop. Which doesn't happen often. Clean nests and twice daily pick up gives me clean eggs.
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    How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens? - OLD

    I started my "Great Chicken Experiment" in the summer of 2009. Since then I have learned a lot about chickens! I have tended the wounded, watched the sick, disposed of the dead, and even eaten two roosters! The one thing I am sure of is that I will keep chickens as long as I am able as they...
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    Whose egg is it?

    Does anyone know of a good site where I can see good pictures of eggs belonging to the breed? I am suddenly unable to figure out which hens are laying which eggs. I have 6 layers--light Brahma, RIR, Golden Comet, Plymouth Barred Rock and 2 Buff Orpingtons. I believe all are laying, but they...
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    egg laying on the roost

    Thanks, looptloop---has yours been doing this a long time, and does it worry you? I wasn't sure if I should just accept it as a new part of her dizzy personality.
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    egg laying on the roost

    Hello, does anyone have an idea why our Golden Comet is apparently laying eggs in her sleep? She will be 1 yr in May and has laid us lovely eggs, in the nest, for 2 months or more. Now, these last two weeks, she drops a pre-dawn egg under the roost. Sometimes it is a soft shell, sometimes...
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