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    How much to feed?

    I give my birds about a handful of organic layer pellet to each bird everyday. They also get a few handfuls of cracked corn from my daughter throughout the day and kitchen scraps as they are available, sometimes 3 times a day, sometimes none, if its raining the dog gets a lot of scraps, the coop...
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    Bossy hen...possible problem?

    So after 3 days in forced living and eating together in the coop she has calmed down and everyone ran free yesterday for a couple hours as a reward. I think she was just extra vigilant because of the three new birds. My dad also told me she was near the bottom of the flock at his house...so...
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    Golden Comets

    Sounds like a fox or coyote to me...with the stolen chicks I would say fox. They are one of the smartest things living under the trees and are capable of "supermarket shopping" and are smart enough to pull it off. Maybe a young family...mommy fox teaching her young adolescents how to steal your...
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    Bossy hen...possible problem?

    I recently got 9 chickens from my dad. A couple of white leghorns and a golden comet with the other 6 being various crosses of leghorn, silkie and barnyard mixes. We have them for eggs and pest control and we are happy with what we have...mostly... The comet hen, who I believe is the mother of...
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    long time listner, first time caller

    Think of a giant glacier carving through New England thousands of years ago. This glacier has been slicing off pieces of granite across the eastern part of Canada and the U.S. and now that said glacier is receding, it is depositing chunks of rock from basketball size up to school bus size. We...
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    long time listner, first time caller

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am not new to chickens but this our first time with a coop/run/birds at our house (we just bought our first house!) Week 2 at our house and I had my wife convinced we needed birds...that was March 2014, a month ago. (2) How many...
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    Question regarding introduction of new chickens

    You will probably have better luck locking them all up in the coop together for a couple days and then just letting them out together. The pecking order will come naturally and anything we do to alter that order is just messing with nature. Your big worry for the first few days is teaching the...
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