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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    6 from 17
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in article 'Healthy dust bathes for your flock'

    I keep two tubs of DE, sand and peat moss in the pen, which is covered, so the hens have year round access to a bath. Sometimes I chop up Rosemary to put in also. I'll use your idea of using something with lemon scent to it now.
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in item 'Orpington'

    I've had Buff Orpingtons for about two years now. They are average layers. One went broody a year ago and hatched two eggs in August. The following spring she went missing, I thought a predator got her, but she showed up in April with 15 babies.!! I've had to discourage their broodiness...
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in article 'My Little Fuzzbutt ♥'

    She sure is pretty with those gold tinged feathers around her neck. My Welsummers have feathers almost like hers.
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    Supplemental light for winter laying

    I've been trying to think of ways to get some light inside my chicken coop. I keep reading that they need 14 hours of light per day. Right now (SE of Austin,TX) it is light about 7:45 a.m. and gets dark at about 12 hours later. But the daylight hours are rapidly getting shorter. I read all...
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in item 'Welsummer'

    I have five Welsummers, got them as day old chicks this past February. They are beautiful birds and get along well with my other hens. I pick them up when I can catch them off guard. They do have a funny call, sometimes they almost sound like a duck quacking.
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    Dust bath?

    I took a couple of plastic tubs and mix peat moss, DE, sand, wood ash and fine dirt. Usually its mostly peat moss and DE. I'm trying some herbs out, too. I chopped up some Rosemary and put about a cup full in. Whatever you use it seems like the chickens love it. When I clean out the coop I...
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    Rooster Attacking Me

    My first rooster was an Americauna. He was beautiful. One day he attacked a lady I was standing in the yard talking to. Then he attacked me. I gave him a couple of swift kicks and he ran off. Our grandson thought he would sneak up on the chickens and scare them. He found out that hens run...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Let our dogs and chickens out. Cleaned out the overnite chicken poop and carried it out to a place in the garden. I pruned 6 small citrus trees that had frozen back this past winter. I thought I had lost them all, but they all are sprouting. Watered everything. Prepared a large "strawberry"...
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in item 'Nite Guard Predator Control Light'

    I have used solar light around our pen and coop. I put two together at each corner. I havn't had any break ins, but its kind of hard to get through the metal of a dog pen with cattle panels on top!! I buy the cheapest lights, 97 cents each and they last as long and sometimes longer than the...
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in item 'Wyandotte'

    I have three SLW. They are really bossy, but I would call them friendly, too. They are second in command after my lonely one Barred Plymouth Rock. They are pretty birds. The one pictured here died , but the three that are left all lay an egg about every other day. I get at least one egg a...
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in item 'Orpington'

    I have Buff Orpingtons. They are very friendly. One will jump up on the arm or back of the chair I am sitting in. I don't try to handle them a lot. The rooster I HAD was beautiful, but not friendly. I finally had to give him away he was too protective of his flock. I had to always carry a...
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    Post your Chick Pictures Here!!!

    Last year I ordered 5 pullets and 1 rooster Buff Orpington. Out of the bunch I have a very broody Buff Orpington hen. Last August she hatched two eggs, naturally one pullet and one rooster. Then she went missing early this year. Our chickens are free range so I thought a predator got her...
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in article 'The All New: How to Train Your Chicken!'

    I grew up hearing Mom and other relatives go out toward the chicken yard calling 'chick chick chick' in a high voice, so that is what I have done with mine. Also I have a plastic container that I have feed in (usually cat food) and can rattle it and call them. It is a lot of fun to watch them...
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    Comment by 'Dawna' in article '"The Coop" est. 2013'

    I really like your coop. I also have Barred Plymouth Rock and Buff Orpington in my flock. AND my husband and I like to sit out in the yard by the coop and watch the chickens!! Better than a lot of stuff you see on TV. The chickens come all around us and one Buff Orpington hen likes to fly...
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