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    Why Aren't My Chickens Laying? Here Are Your Answers!

    very cute and im glad the rooster is doing his job....a proud momma she will be
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    Why Aren't My Chickens Laying? Here Are Your Answers!

    well i think my chickens are mixed up i bought them about this time last year and they got pretty good at laying and got really great throughout the winter and what happens?....our first real week of spring and they all give out! i went from 15 to 17 eggs a day to maybe 4 nd i have 23 chickens...
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    rooster not crowing

    lol yea i hear ya its kinda the reason i only got one. at one time i had many roosters but i moved away and got rid of them all.now since i live out in the country again i really missed home and started yet again but this time instead of getting them full grown i decided to raise them up from...
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    rooster not crowing

    i'm a relatively new chicken owner i have 18 hens and one rooster.first off he's a welsummer and 5 1/2 months old give or take a week he's skiddish and doesn't like to be handled like the hens i have but i have yet to hear him crow and was wondering if any of you have any opinions on this...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    youy know i've heard that myth all my life that hens won't lay eggs without a rooster....unfortunatlely it wasn't till recently that i found otherwise....i wonder where that started from.
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    old barn nightmare's

    thanks and yes i feel i am and the talk around the house since i did such a grand job on the coop is....they want a beef cow next spring and of course a pig not to mention the youngin wants a horse so my battles it looks like is just beginning lol.
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    old barn nightmare's

    so i finally got the coop done and the chicks are out in it....gotta say i went kinda overboard with it the coop just swallows those 27 chickens lol.i probably got enough room in there to fit 50 more with no crowding issues at all.i got pics just ain't loaded them up yet and most of it is...
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    North Carolina

    i'm in clinton county just right outside frankfort....not much here except corn fields and some of the blackest dirt i've ever seen lol.corse i'm used to that north carolina red clay dirt mixed with some good ol river sand lol
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    old barn nightmare's

    lol for the moment chickens are taking up most of my time.i really do want them to have a comfortable life.its been an interesting last 3 weeks reading,constructing,thinking,buying,more reading,etc etc.and i think i reached the halfway point on the coop which i'm pushing to finish....the 30...
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    Homemade Feed

    i found this recipe in a book by gail damerow she's very inteligent and puts things in laymen's term without all the mumbo jumbo others do that you have to be a rocket scientist to figure out otherwise you get frusterated and like me give up also most are commercial recipes and quite large and...
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    old barn nightmare's

    just got through reading and seeing the pics of that barn and house.....i have really found some great encouragement from it and excitement as well.by the way the link worked.thank you fer posting that i really do appreciate it.my barn is about 5 times that size but maybe in a year or 2 i'll be...
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    Our "new" barn and coop!!

    its been a few years since your first post and i'm working on an old barn as well.and seeing these pics have really givin me some encouragement to keep trudging forward.i hope all is well with you all and god bless you.
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    Indiana Chicken People (list)

    hello all i'm new to byc and indiana i'm living in clinton county and starting a chicken hobby farm....i hope so anyway got 27 chickens and three more have gotton ordered so by may 21st i will have 30 chickens....i'm excited.its been exciting thus far all but the coop part and that has been too...
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    North Carolina

    i ain't been long moved from rockingham county north of greensboro.i'm living in indiana at the moment.and it looks like i will be here fer a while atleast.seems strange to be on the other side of the mason dixon line and it is quite beutiful up here(besides there being no mountains).i been...
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    old barn nightmare's

    so i'm new to the game.but i have this old 100+ year old barn that isn't being used for any purpose so why not turn a room in it into a chicken coop.....well fer one it originally wasn't set up to be a chicken coop it was set up fer livestock,everything is on a slope and creating a nightmare...
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