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    When can I expect my hens to start laying again?

    Check your daylight present within your actual coop. For instance, I have my girls in a covered run (no physical coop) - they have a greenhouse frame covered in hardware cloth and a clear plastic tarp. They have light shade when the trees have leaves, but in the winter, we get as much daylight...
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    Mites in new store bought pine shavings?

    For anyone still wondering, yes, the chickens eat the TSC pine shavings just fine, and they get ground up in their gizzards. I don't know why they eat wood, but it goes through their system fine usually as long as they have enough grit (with correct type of rocks and correct size). Meat bird...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    So my remaining 4 NH hens and one roo are right at 2 years old come March. I'm a little concerned the hens may not start laying again, as they are so very large. (this happened to the WR hen I held back - she laid her first year, but not her second - nothing wrong inside of her - think she was...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    I just ate the 6 wk NH cockerel that I processed in my first post on this thread - it had a varus/valgus (sp?) anomaly - I processed it because I thought it had dislocated its tendon, and turns out the joint was fine, the bone below it had grown sideways. It was tasty and made exactly 1 lb of...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    So, I've kinda given up on relocating the rest of the NH hens on top of the perch for now. Instead I spread out 1/4" or so of Zeolite on top of the dog crate tray resting on top of the dog crate. Not as good as having them perch up on something, but at least the Zeolite is there to absorb the...
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    Henry knoll New Hampshire

    Have you read through my thread about these? Freedom Ranger Hatchery is still breeding/selling Henry Knoll's line of New Hampshires as dual purpose birds. I've been raising mine for some time, and have noted my observations...
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    The Egg Anomalies Thread

    I have no idea. The genetics of leakage are quite complex. I know enough to recognize it and some basic info on how it might come about. If you go to the Genetics thread, and post a picture of this chicken, and explain how she was sold as a production blue, and show pictures of both her, her...
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    Where to get chicks?

    If you buy straight run though, you're taking your chances. They could be up to 100% roosters. So I don't often do that unless i actually want roos and have a plan for the extra ones.
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    Feather damage

    I would definitely put a chicken saddle on her. There is a wide variety of quality/usefulness in chicken saddles. My favorite saddle (most durable, best protection, stays on super good) is below. They can be adjusted to fit everything from my white leghorns (small and sleek) to my New...
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    Where to get chicks?

    You'd have to figure out what the hatchery is they're ordering from, and then check the hatchery's statement on how accurate their sexing is. Generally, female sexed chicks are 90% accurate from say, Hoover's. Now, if you buy sex-linked chicks, those are almost always accurate (such as red...
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    The Egg Anomalies Thread

    Yeah, that would explain it, if they had an Australorp dad and RIR mom. The website stated RIR male x Australorp female, so I assumed that was what they were doing. I did breeding of a very dark Production Red (very similar to RIR) male over a variety of differently feathered females, and...
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    Retired firefighter now raising chickens

    We got temps down to -20F one winter (yes, in ALABAMA!) for a week or two. When temps get that low, I use 5 gallon bucket horizontal nipple waterers to avoid having my birds step in open sources of water or freeze wattles (I have idiotic chickens who WILL freeze their feet off by stepping in...
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    Bubbly eggs ?

    If you incubator has them lying on their sides, you can use solo (plastic) cups, and stick the eggs in those, and put those in the incubator to keep them fat end (air cell end) up for at least the first week. You can rotate them around their vertical axis if rotation is desired. After that...
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    The Egg Anomalies Thread

    Typically, you get either silver or red leakage, not both. Also, chicken feather color is not tied to egg color. You can have any color chickens laying any color of eggs if you breed them correctly for long enough. Egg color can be tied to comb type in a few specific ways, but that's not...
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    Bubbly eggs ?

    Now, if you're talking about the speckled appearance of the shell (light speckles) - that's due to differing permeability of the shell in those areas. Sometimes you see this in older eggs, or when hens are older. It is what it is at this point, I'd just rest them and incubate.
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