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[Nyrial]

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I've never bathed a chicken before either, but sometimes I'm tempted. My run gets pretty muddy when it rains a lot and my girls could use a bath right now. lol I'm sure it'll come off with all their preening, though, since it's drying out.

Giving baths to chickens is fun.

Especially with preschool age helpers.

 

[jbear]

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I've never bathed a chicken before either, but sometimes I'm tempted. My run gets pretty muddy when it rains a lot and my girls could use a bath right now. lol I'm sure it'll come off with all their preening, though, since it's drying out.

Giving baths to chickens is fun.

Especially with preschool age helpers.

hahah! uh huh! My cochin roo falls asleep everytime!

 

[LaSombra]

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If you have sand use it. My 2 to 3 inch layer lasted most of winter. About two months ago though it was pretty much gone. I want to get mine off of craigslist for free.
So what I did was buy straw bales.
Not only does that stop them from walking on all that mud and you sliding in it the straw gives them something to do looking for bugs and I throw either food or bird seed in it.
They really like that. Good exercise for them.

a friend of my dad is supposed to be bringing a load over sometime. He has a bad memory, though, since he got in a big car wreck. I think he forgot again...

 

[Illia]

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Jersey Giants are HUGE - And the standard calls for a 13 lb. rooster.

The eggs are large, though interestingly are smaller than, say, a Bev Davis Marans egg. They're a beautiful pale but blushy skin pink color, and consistently uniform.

Indeed, I have 38 eggs in the bator with so far 7 chicks hatched out.

 

[L0rraine]

Here's my new babies:

 

[Sparkelrose]

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Oh they are too cute!

 

[ChickenSal]

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Those are soooo cute!

 

[Illia]

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Really good until today - I have 2 Jersy Giants trying to hatch out of their zipping, and an Ameraucana trying to zip. . . But the humidity is around 78-81% , the chicks keep sleeping on top of the zipping eggs, and so on. . . Nothing new has happened since early this morning.

But, so far, I have almost all the Marans out, almost all the JGs out and about half the Ameraucanas out. Also, my Polish x EE is out . . . But I have no clue which chick it is!

- It's either black or white and I have a lot of blonde Ameraucanas, black copper Marans, and black Jersey Giants in there.

The chick has too small of a crest to see so far too, and I have no clue what a Pea comb x V comb makes. . .

 

[Chickielady]

Hello all !
Guess what, I finally figured out how to set an avatar, (duh)
It was easy once I got the message.
Also posted some signature.
I am very proud of myself since I am computer, and mathmatically challenged.
Cannot help it, I am an artist, not a puter wizard.
Tried to get my grown kids to do it for me but they are too busy.
This is 'big girl' my very bossy cry baby lt brahma.

 

[Illia]

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- She looks like my sassy Brahma, Cheesecake.

She's got some unwanted pencilling on the back, but she's pretty when you don't look at the pencilling.