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    No eggs

    I am considering buying a few more chicks this week. Should I stick with the same breeds, or will any new chicks be ok to mix with my existing birds? Will any new birds follow suite of not laying in the Winter or is that more of a quality of the breed?
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    No eggs

    Thank you everyone for the great information. My girls just turned a year and this is my first venture with chickens. I have done some research and perhaps the greatest resource I found was this website. I've read about the dangers of heating the coop, so I never even considered it this year...
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    No eggs

    I believe so. I am buying egg laying feed at the local feed store. I mix a ratio of feed and cracked corn 2:1. I also throw kitchen scraps in the coop.
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    No eggs

    I have 3 Rhode Island Reds and an Amerucana that are 11 months old. I bought them from a local hatchery when they were a day old and they started laying eggs about 20 weeks old. They were faithful layers until late December when we had a string of extreme cold days (highs in the single digits)...
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    Newbie on Board

    Good morning BYC. My family and I live in Cincinnati, and every year, our yard is becoming more and more like a farm. The summer after we bought our house in 2009, we started gardening fruits and vegetables. A couple years later I started raising rabbits for meat production. After a few...
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