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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    4 from 4!
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    14 hours of light for egglaying - myth?

    Two of my pullets began laying in December. Our shortest length of daylight was 9 hrs., 16 minutes. We are now up to 9 hrs, 20 minutes. After recovering from a moult, the Barred Rock is laying again. There's one older hen that is not laying. So, 3 out of 4 is good. They don't receive...
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    Just Getting Started in Colorado

    I'm in Colorado too, Fort Collins area. I have four hens and there is one roosting perch. It's a 2 x 4 with the wide side up so that the hens can cover their feet with feathers in the winter. The coop is not heated. My Barred Rock has handled the cold temperatures well. Last year the...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    0 of 4 2 haven't started laying / 1 is molting / 1 doesn't care for the cold temperatures (?), it was -10 two mornings ago.
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    1st Post: Bloody Toe

    Thanks so much for the reply. She's doing pretty well. I let her out with the Barred Rock to roam in the backyard while I kept a very careful eye on her, actually them -- looking for foxes. She's tentative with the foot when she walks, sometimes limps. She's spending a lot of time standing on...
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    1st Post: Bloody Toe

    I have learned so much from the forums on BYC. Right now I want to be sure that I'm doing the right things. Last night when I went to close the coop I noticed stops on the wooden step into the coop. They were blood spots. My two older hens (~2 yrs., Barred Rock, Australorp named Blackie) were...
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    Smelly and muddy run solutions

    Hi Shannon, I've got a similar problem, but it doesn't smell, yet. I've been throwing lots of straw on the mucky run. By lots, I mean several feet high. Then when the weather is drier I rake it out and move it to my compost pile. Sometimes there's a day or two between rains and the soil begins...
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