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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    I really like your advice, thank you. I bought 2 more hens, still keeping them locked up. a couple moulted ( ugly looking) and not one is laying eggs now for 2 weeks. I have one pullet that thinks she is broody, never leaving an empty nest. I read they probably are stressed, what with the...
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    I free ranged my 3 hens and rooster always. they came home to roost at night and to lay their eggs. Once in a while they would try the empty dog house. All was fine for 2 years, locking them up at night. Until a fox decided it would get best results in nabbing chicken in the day, early late...
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    new to byc and to chickens

    3 hens wandered over with a rooster 1 yr. ago. The rooster died or disappeared, 2 hens flew into my dog yard. the lone survivor is a black and white ??? lays light brown eggs, all over the property, does not sit on them. I have an egg hunt when she moves where she lays eggs. 6 months ago a...
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