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    8 month old speck sussex and bl sexlink not laying yet?!?

    I have 3 suxssex also that are doing exact same thing, not laying eggs, they are 9 months old and have never laid eggs, I have 4 golden comets that eat same food and free range the same and I get 4 eggs a day everyday faithfully, so I don't figure it's their food.
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    I free range 10 hens, a few have started laying eggs just not in their coop. Everyone says lock them in the run for 2 weeks use golf balls or Easter eggs in the nesting box. I free range my hens they have no run and their coop is in the sun most of the day so I can't lock them in their coop. 3...
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    best chicken breeds for my family

    My buff Orpingtons and speckled Sussex are both very friendly and neither are flighty I would recommend getting them as chicks and raising them giving them attention talking to them and loving on them every chance you get. That's how I raised mine and now as adults they like being held and...
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    Question about free range

    I have 10 chickens they free range, I have 1.5 acres of yard for them to roam 1/3 of an acre is fenced in but they won't stay in the fenced part but never leave my property
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    My integration experiment!!!!!!!!

    Tomorrow will be a week since I introduced the new chickens. The new ones are venturing further and further from the coop but older ones still won't let them into their flock. It's weird that they all sleep together 2 of the new ones even get up the same roosting stick as the older ones and the...
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    My integration experiment!!!!!!!!

    I got the main flock as 1 week old chicks they were born March 3rd, there coop is 8 foot long by 3 foot wide by 3 foot tall, realitivily small for all 10 hens I'm going to either add on to existing coop or just build all new one. I have a stream that runs through the yard for them to drink from...
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    My integration experiment!!!!!!!!

    My main flock is 6 hens 13 weeks old 2 buff Orpingtons and 4 speckeled sussex all of them are pretty laid back. I bought 4 golden comets fellow said they where 12 weeks old but I'm leaning more tword 9-10 weeks old. Brought 4 new girls home this past Thursday 6-9-16. I locked them in the run put...
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