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    Our $2,000 egg!!!!!

    Congratulations on your first egg:celebrate
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    Moderator Appreciation 2025

    Thank you to all the BYC moderators!!!:love
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    Older hens killing 11 week old chicks

    I am so sorry about your chicks😟 How long did you have them separated before integrating? I keep mine separated in a look but don't touch setup until all the adults completely ignore the new chicks. This year it only took a week to integrate 5 week old chicks, but one year it took over 3 weeks...
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    When it comes to chicken care, what are your favorite ways to save money?

    This is what we do and love it. We were getting over run with mice due to the chickens scratching food out of their feeders even when hanging. I put the feeders in rubber feed pans and haven't seen any mice since. At the end of the day, I take the feeders out of the run and pour what was...
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    What chicken supplies would you consider essential for a beginner?

    Welcome to chickens!:celebrate My advice would be to not buy too much beyond the basics at first because your needs will probably change as you go. *Appropriately sized secure coop - we started with a 4x6 coop for 6 chickens and added a second 8x10 coop the next year🤣 *Appropriately sized...
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    Roosters eating hen laying feed

    Layer feed has too much calcium for any chickens who aren't laying eggs (not just roosters). Over time it can damage their kidneys.
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    Everyone's favorite game, hen or roo, with my perplexing Speckled Sussex

    For a reference, this is a picture of our Speckled Sussex hen when she was 9 weeks old
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    Number of coops

    We have 2 coops attached to one run. We started with a smaller 4x6 coop and then added a larger walk-in 8x10 coop after chicken math hit. If I had to do it over, I would have just one large coop. One coop is easier to clean both daily and for whole coop cleaning (like when we had a mite...
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    Treating abscess & diagnosing large lesions/ growths on rooster leg @ feather line

    Azygous has a thread about treating tumor on one of her roosters. It has been awhile since I read through it, but there may be some useful information. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/possible-lymphoid-leucosis-neoplastic-tumor-update-not-injury-confirmed-to-be-a-tumor.1543307/
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    Irish spring soap for deterrent

    I tried keeping some raised garden beds in our run after we expanded the run around the garden. The first year I was able to keep the chickens out of the beds with a low chicken wire fence. The second year had me trying to harvest through at least 4 layers of fencing as the girls kept sneaking...
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    Got any idea what color eggs these hens will lay?

    No Orpingtons. 5 and 6 are Dominique, 7 is Speckled Sussex and 1 is one of my original EEs. Thanks! - this picture is from 2 years ago, the only time all of my chickens laid eggs on the same day☺️ Hoping that it happens again some day for an updated picture🤞
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    Got any idea what color eggs these hens will lay?

    😆 it should be obvious, but of my original 3 OEs, only 1 laid an olive egg. One lays a dark khaki colored egg and one lays a sometimes speckled light brown egg. For my 2 original EEs, one lays a green egg and one lays a light brown egg. I also had 3 other beige egg laying girls. It was so much...
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    Bumblefoot questions-Help please

    So sorry for your loss☹️:hugs
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    devested to find our flock massacred

    I am so sorry that you lost your chicks. How is the one who survived? Was the game warden able to tell what may have attacked them? I've heard that badgers can chew through hardware cloth, but I thought they were too large to fit through a 4" hole. Since you have a predator capable of chewing...
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    Best brooder plates

    We used the Producer's Pride brooder plate(not made in US) inside the house twice. The third time I tried to use it, it was dead😒 This year I am trying out a diy brooder plate https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/pseudo-brooder-heater-plate.67729/ with a Sunbeam heating pad(also not made...
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