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    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    It's been awhile since I posted. I got wiped out last year by a fox when I was letting the chickens free range without keeping a watch. Might have been something else, but the MO looked like what a fox would do, plus foxes have been spotted. So I replaced the flock with New Hampshire Reds...
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    How 'extra' do I have to be?

    Back to the original question, the CDC recommends having dedicated "chicken shoes" that you keep outside. Too much trouble for daily activity and I think unnecessary, except for the biannual thorough coop cleaning in which you don't want to ruin a good pair of shoes in chicken poop. I do wash...
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    When can I be expecting eggs?

    It's spring and all four of my gals are now full fledged hens, laying one egg a day each.
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    How do YOU winterize your coop?

    I'm going to get one of those heaters you put under the fount for this winter
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Luzerne County
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    When can I be expecting eggs?

    With my Rhode Island Reds, I can tell if they will let me "pet them on the back'. The laying hens will squat down and let me do it. They must think I'm a rooster. The sexually immature birds want no part of it.
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    Free Range chickens not laying in their coop. HELP!

    One hen laid in a nesting box from day one. I figured that the others were not mature enough yet, till I found that one of them laid her egg in some grass clippings that had blown onto the back porch. The pullets seem to have a set routine. When they are let out, they go to the east side of...
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    Hello from PA

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I have been reading a lot about raising chickens before I bought four 6 week old pullets in May 2018. The are just starting to lay now. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Still have the original 4. The buried hardware...
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