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    Do your EE's lay during the winter or are mine hiding their eggs???

    My three stopped laying early last fall and didn't start up again until early spring. They stopped laying again just a few weeks back.
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    Experience w/ Murray Mcmurray?

    I got my chickens from McMurray last April. One died in transit (it was flat as a pancake!), one died the 1st night, and a third got an eye infection, but she pulled through. One cockerel (I never did figure out what breed he was, but he was gorgeous) was pretty much noticeably a male early...
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    how many eggs a week do you get from an easter egger

    Mine were the first of my bunch to lay, beating out a Black Giant and two Rocks by a few days. They were erratic the 1st month or so, and one quit laying for several weeks after she started (unless, of course, she's got them stashed somewhere). Now, all three lay nearly every day, maybe 5 to 6...
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    Chickens good pest control?

    I've seen my hens rip a field mouse in half and run around doing the victory shriek. Chilling. Our back yard was nearly spider-free for the first time since we've lived here. I spent all this summer feeling happy to see giant wolf spiders spring out at me. Take that, nasty spiders! The...
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    For those who have used vinyl flooring in the coop...

    We put vinyl down in our coop when we built it this past April (one step ahead of a bathroom full of chicks, but that's another story...). I did have a clerk at the Home Despot give me the hairy eye because I was "testing" various vinyl samples. I figured if they gouged when I used a...
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    Daylilies- do your chickens eat them?

    Do any of those plants you mentioned do OK in part sun? I have some of the sunflowers growing up under a cherry tree, even the ones on the north side bloom some. Of course, that part of the yard gets full sun most of the year. I've seen Jerusalem artichoke mentioned on here several times, you...
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    How did you come up with your screen name?

    When I finally gave in to peer pressure (that's my story!) and got some hens for eggs this past spring, I went all out and bought 25 from McMurray (who sent me 27). I can only legally have 10 in the city, so some went to a gentleman in a neighboring county (he took my babies to coyote-infested...
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    Daylilies- do your chickens eat them?

    Good luck! My small flock ate all the Hostas on the shady side of their run here too. My girls have eaten some daylilies, but the real problem is that they dig them up when they run free in the evenings. I re-plant them and they do okay (I'm sure they would do better if they weren't dug up at...
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