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    Adding to flock

    Thank you for confirming what I already thought. I do know from the past that my situation can accommodate 10 hens amicably, but they all grew up together. There was no rooster then either. I should show you pics of the coop. The kennel is covered and is tarped and protected, I add more tarps as...
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    Adding to flock

    So I am considering getting 4 black austrolorps supposedly they just started laying. I am just concerned about mixing them with my birds. Currently I have a 20x10 dog kennel with a 4x6 coop attached to one end. My newest chickens, now 2, never slept in coop, but on roosts in the covered/tarped...
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    Hi!

    Hi everyone! I have owned chickens for 5+ years now. This website was easily the most valuable resource I found on chicken raising. I have a mixed flock because I Like the variety, I love aracauna, black austrolorpes, and Brahmas are probably one of my all time favorites. Currently I have 6...
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    Need suggestions for second coop or amending existing coop

    You could put your little coop inside a dog pen. Then it would be safer and you would have a run. I tarp mine up in winter and it stays rather cozy.
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    Turkey Pen Size

    Thanks all! Gonna build me a pen and put some meat chickens in it. Turkeys might be biting off more than I can chew right now. Still relatively new to chickens, but caught the bird flu...( chicken math crosses species for me. ). :D See you on the meat chicken thread! :fl
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    Turkey Pen Size

    It's my boyfriend, lol. He doesn't love the birds like I do. Told him wanted more chickens and he said not enough backyard as it is. (He likes to mow). I almost choked when he mentioned raising turkeys for meat. I was like, we will get six, keep a breeding trio, and eat the other three! He...
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    Turkey Pen Size

    One Tom to 10 hens. Processing around 24 weeks for old varieties, and 18 weeks for newer, heavier varieties. I am quoting from Storeys guide to raising turkeys. He says 12 turkeys require a 75 ft by 75 foot pen, about an eighth of an acre. Which makes 6 birds almost 40'x40'. My question is...
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    Very muddy run and smell....what to do?

    I used lime for the smell, got it from tractor supply, near the horse stall stuff. Haha, told lady I needed lime and she said, limes grow on trees.I guess she saw me looking at the seed packets. Under the feeder I used crushed stone, and in the corners too. I used pallets where I could with...
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    Polish hen laying!

    Yay!!!!! I like that you called it a gift. I feel the same way. Congrats!
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    Polish hen laying!

    Wow desertchickens! You just never know. Do you eat them? That would be a good one to keep some babies from.
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    Polish hen laying!

    Mine was probably nine months old when she started, had been getting eggs from the orpingtons and black austrolorpes for three or four months, I wasn't counting on her to be a great contributor, but she is pretty consistently laying every other day. My ee's took a long time too, must have...
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    light brahmas

    I too Love my brahma girl. She doesn't bully, nor does she get bullied, and is quiet compared to my others. She was later to lay than the austrolorps and the orps, but sooner than my americaunas and polish. I am probably getting 5 eggs a week from her.(And I do love the peacomb.) . I will...
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    Coop fire

    The local fire dept responded to a structure fire last night, by the time they arrived it was fully engulfed and almost on the ground. This morning I was told it was a chicken coop. The cause of the fire was a heater, too close to hay. Chickens survived, chicks did not. Chick season is here...
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    too many scraps?

    Chickens on Atkins, I love it! Thanks. Will leave behind the dinner rolls and the French fries.
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    Polish hen laying!

    Update! Have since gotten three green eggs on the same day. Once they started, they just keep coming.
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