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    DAT's Big Chicken Adventure

    I had a big chicken adventure last night - one of them was in the egg box, making odd noises. I thought maybe she was egg-bound, so I looked it up in my chicken book and read what to do. I swallowed hard, grabbed the bottle of mineral oil from the medicine chest, and headed out to the coop to...
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    Adding To My Flock

    Hi Everyone, I have 7 Rhode Island Reds, and they'll be 2 years old on June 12th. I don't want to wait until they all quit laying and get old and die, and then get new ones - I want to have continuous egg production. So I ordered 8 more, which will arrive in a couple of weeks. Once they're...
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    Hello From Southeastern Vermont!

    OK, I used the question template from the "sticky" post at the top of the list for this topic. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I got my first chickens in June of 2007, a year after leaving The Big City (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) to move to a falling-down...
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    Incubator - Required Or Optional

    Quote: Yes, I can see where that could happen. I'm already looking up breeds that I see in people's signatures on Wikipedia, and thinking "Hmm, that looks interesting...". Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.
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    Incubator - Required Or Optional

    Hi Everyone, If I get a rooster for my hens, do I need to buy an incubator, etc.? Can't I just let the hens do their thing? If I do it "the natural way", is there a way to have some hens on hatching duty and others still laying? Or is this a pain in the neck, and a good reason to...get an...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    December 30th 2007
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    Inconsistent Egg Laying - Slacker Chickens?

    I think that's unlikely. The coop is very sturdy. Once the doors are closed at night, there are no openings at all that are bigger than the 4" vent holes, and those are a) tightly covered with hardward cloth, and b) eight feet above the ground. Also, the coop is located close enough to the...
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    Inconsistent Egg Laying - Slacker Chickens?

    Hi Everyone, I have another beginner question. I have Rhode Island Reds, 7 of them. I understand that in the winter they lay fewer eggs than in the summer, but I have a light in the coop so that they get 14-15 hours of light every day. Over the last three months, I've noticed that some days...
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    Eggs are great, poop is not!

    OK, here's a question: how do people deal with eggs that have chicken poop on them? Just throw them out? I have a nest box that's big enough, and kept clean, and it's up off the floor. Nonetheless, about a third of the eggs have some bits of poop on them. Is there something wrong with the...
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