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I am going to get 6 hens this spring for my backyard flock but not sure what to get. Last 6 I had were white leghorns and RIR. I kind of want something different this time. What do you think will be good egg layers and cold tolerant as we live in MN. And also do I get all the same or split like...

Last night i noticed that my white leghorn was laying on the nest for awhile, and acting kind of different they are just shy 19 wks. I have been getting 2 eggs a day from 3 of them, and then every other day get 2 good ones and one soft jelly like one. Well went out this morning and she had...

Well we'll find out in alittle over a week if the residents of Stewartville Mn. will be able to have some chickens. It's been a long haul but the public meeting went fairly good i think and they made a couple of changes to the ordiordinance but I'm pretty confident that this will pass!! I will...

So I opened up my nest boxes and I read that some people use golf ball's and just wondering if it's ok that they have writing on them and will the chickens peck at them and continue to peck at their eggs when they start laying!! Thanks

Well I believe we are down to one meeting on getting this done for allowing some chickens. July 8th is the meeting and it's going to be a public meeting so I hope we have enough on our side to convince the city it will be good to have a few chickens. I'm asking in advance for any advise that we...

So I purchased some chickens from a local farm store and later found out we can't have chickens in our city. So I built a coop and they are 6wks old now and I have them in my garage. I shut the heat lamp off when the temp gets above 65 degrees in there, so my question is will they be fine...