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Hi! Live just outside the Plattsmouth area in south east Nebraska! I have two Mille d' fleur hens and am looking for a rooster for them.... Anybody have ideas as to where I can find one or someone have one they would like to sell? Please let me know!
Thanks!
 
Hi all...hope everyone has survived the winter. Oh Wait...it isn't gone yet. Well anyway. I thought I would post a couple of questions for our resident experts.

I have a heinz 57 chicken that I got from an elementary school hatch in May last year. First things first. She just started laying in January, took her sweet time, but the really weird thing is that she has white earlobes and is laying the most beautiful medium brown eggs. What the heck? I have no idea of her blood lines the farmer that provided the hatching eggs shrugged his shoulders when the teachers asked what type. She looks like she could be some kind of Orp cross, her name is Peach (the color of one) but she does indeed have white ear lobes and brown eggs.

Also Weird Chicken behavior question- I got Peach and Banana in May as day olds (Banana became Racoon food in August) and my local community garden gave me Big Bertha and Fluff (two I hatched from a batch of eggs that Thndrdancr donated to the Local Community Garden in Spring of '11) so that I would not have one lone Peach for winter. I was going to donate Peach to them, but they had an influx of birds and Bertha is a sweet bird that I have eyed since she hatched. Fluff was the lone silkie left out of the hatch and I took her because she and Bertha were pals. So I have a mixed and adopted flock and the point of this long description is...Any idea why they would pull every bit of straw out of both nest boxes? I cleaned the coop (an A-frame) and the next day all the straw is laying in the bottom of their run. I use a layer of news paper under the boxes just for easy clean out but put a healthy layer of straw on top. They pull all the straw out and then scratch a fluffed up mess of paper to lay their eggs in. I am confused.

Hope all are doing well this snowy Sunday afternoon. I think I will go check for eggs.
dwegz
 
dwegz said:
Any idea why they would pull every bit of straw out of both nest boxes? I cleaned the coop (an A-frame) and the next day all the straw is laying in the bottom of their run. I use a layer of news paper under the boxes just for easy clean out but put a healthy layer of straw on top. They pull all the straw out and then scratch a fluffed up mess of paper to lay their eggs in. I am confused.

Hope all are doing well this snowy Sunday afternoon. I think I will go check for eggs.
dwegz
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I have nest boxes for the girls they don't use them. They have their own little place they make for the nest.
I have an inside chicken and she was laying and the nest she picked had to her own liking. Anything I did to make her nest she would rearrange.
Now mind you I am not as experienced as most everybody on this site. So just my experience with what I have.
 
I used to have that problem until I got the metal nest boxes at an auction. When I used the ones I bought from TLC, they were able to scratch out anything I put in them. They still scratch the nest in their metal 6 hole box but most stays inside now.
 
olefarmersdaughter said:
I used to have that problem until I got the metal nest boxes at an auction. When I used the ones I bought from TLC, they were able to scratch out anything I put in them. They still scratch the nest in their metal 6 hole box but most stays inside now.
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Well that is interesting. The problem at our house is that I built the coop and the nest boxes on either end so I don't have the option to put in metal. Oh well, maybe when I upgrade this spring.
Good to know mine aren't the only ones. Our old girls used to make a pretty little nest of the straw I would leave them. These girls are WEIRD!
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silkie4 said:
Hi! Live just outside the Plattsmouth area in south east Nebraska! I have two Mille d' fleur hens and am looking for a rooster for them.... Anybody have ideas as to where I can find one or someone have one they would like to sell? Please let me know!
Thanks!
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I am so jealous of your Mille Fleur d'Uccles! They are my favorite chicken breed, hands down, but the hubs prefers full-size eggs. :( Maybe in a few years I'll convince him they're fantastic and he'll cave in.
 
Hello all. I am Michelle. We live near Edgar. We are just working on the coop this weekend and then looking forward to getting some chickens soon.
 
galawaysfarm said:
Hello all. I am Michelle. We live near Edgar. We are just working on the coop this weekend and then looking forward to getting some chickens soon.
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Hi, great weather to start your coop.
Getting the chickens is the fun part.
mg
Omaha
 
Hi,
I have a Red Frizzle Bantam Rooster for sale.
I have all girls, my alpha hen and he got into it.
so I guess he will have to find a good home.
Thanks.
Omaha
 

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