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My hens love the mice we catch. They will catch mice themselves now that they’ve developed a taste for mouse!

Now if Dottie begins to crow, all bets are off!

I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. Dottie is definitely a little girl. My chicks are more like 15 weeks old now but my roo had a very pronounced comb even at 7 weeks.

That is definately a little girl!

I just received 15 hen and 3 cockerel buckeye chicks from Meyer. I haven't raised buckeyes before but they are cute!

I need to add 6 chicks to my flock and would rather use a breeder than Mt. Healthy Hatchery. How do I go about finding a reliable breeder? I'm in Waynesville but will will travel for good healthy chicks. I need good egg layers.

I have an umbrella dryer and I can hang everything on it, but we have a double bed. I am sure sheets from a larger bed wouldn't fit. Its easy to fold up and pull out of the ground to cut the grass and in the winter.

12 for 12!:weee:weee:weee:weee

We nailed it down. It went down very quickly. I made the really stupid mistake of buying the chicks before the hen house was up, so anything that sped up the building project was a blessing.

I have a plywood floor with hardware cloth then linoleum and I love it. It makes clean-up easy and adds just a little more insulation since the hen house is 18" off the ground. The linoleum covers the floor then comes up the wall 8-10". WE put a thin wood trim around the wall to seal the...

I got 12 out of 12!!

370763+12=370775