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    Hello from Alabama

    Hi, we used to live in Glencoe and had chickens so I just wanted to offer a bit of advice from experience. Depending on where exactly you live in Glencoe be careful. Glencoe has ordinances/zoning regs related to owning "livestock" as it's labeled in those stupid rules. I'm not certain if it's...
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    New Member Introduction

    They just don't lay very often. This type only lays like 52 eggs a yr to what we've found out thru research. To me they look like a cross between a road runner and a crow 😆😆😆😆. But yes.. they (especially him) have a tall stature for little bantams. It's really funny to see him eating off the...
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    New Member Introduction

    I'm not to terribly far from Huntsville.. I think it's maybe an HR and a half or so 🤔.. haven't been there in a while.. lol. I'm located in the Altoona area.. near MTN top trade day. What Alabama thread?
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    New Member Introduction

    Ok. Thank you. I have heard of people line breeding for certain traits and all.. just wasn't sure whether it was ok or if it really mattered that much. I tried to let my hens hatch off the eggs. But the only broody girl I have is apparently my game hen and she's currently raising 4 chicks that...
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    New Member Introduction

    I had thought about one larger coop and just combining them all.. we actually tried that when we first got the bantams. We've never had much trouble introducing new chickens before so we let those two sit outside the run next to the big ones all day (as we had in the past) and they seemed...
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    Introduction

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    New Member Introduction

    Hi, my name is Carrie. I'm new to the group (though I've been skimming thru posts on the site off and on for a few years 😉). I'm from Northeast Alabama. We first got chickens around 5 yrs ago. We ended up with our first completely out of the blue to be honest. My sis in law had one fall off a...
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