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    New Eggs for the New Year

    My four GLWs at 23 weeks have given me 31 eggs since they started laying two weeks ago. I wanted eggs, I got eggs. I’m just so surprised at how many I’ve gotten so far in January at this age without any supplemental light. I was told that I would be lucky if I got any eggs until the end of...
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    New Eggs for the New Year

    Since they started laying, now day nine, I have gotten 17 eggs from my four young girls. I’m so excited I can’t stand it.
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    New Eggs for the New Year

    I hope you are right about having a gem. He has been extremely consistent in his behavior, so I have less concern that he will become a bad rooster but he is an animal. There is no telling but so far he has been really good. If I've landed in the almost perfect flock by accident I'll take it but...
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    New Eggs for the New Year

    My husband wanted me to get rid of the roosters (I ended up with two from the hatchery). I rehomed one and have been told that he is the sweetest rooster. This one waved off a hawk at 16 weeks so he solidified his place with that and good manners. I’ve been told I hit the rooster lottery with...
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    New Eggs for the New Year

    So the little flock of four golden ladies, GLW hens and their velvet dragon king-Sir Fallon of the Blue Ridge, a BA, have graced their human vassal with pullet eggs for the New Year. In the last week, these 21-22 week old hens, have given me a total of ten eggs. I'm thinking that is rather...
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    Toys for the Winter Chicken House

    I have clear polycarbonate on all sides of my lower run and under the coop. Warms up during the day and blocks the wind. They go into the run all day though our daytime lows so far have been 15-20F. Even at 0 and negative numbers, I think the clear polycarbonate or clear shower curtains would...
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    Quick winterization question

    Thank you. I didn’t think so, but as I’ve never kept chickens before I wasn’t sure. I appreciate the “ it’ll be okay” from people who have been doing this for a while. I want to keep them dry and draft free as much as possible. I know that they can take the cold, but not being wet.
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    Quick winterization question

    So because the first snow we had put so much snow in the run and on their ladder, the chickens would not come out until I cleaned it up. This time I put some green frost plant protection cloth on the north and eastern sides of the upper run (southern side got blown off in the wind and the lower...
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    Sentinel Snow Day

    So Sir Fallon and his ladies got about 1.5 hours of foraging time while I cleaned their run, added a couple of cups of food grade DE, and turned the Premier Chicken Sand to help dry it out a bit more ahead of the next snow storm. Got them back in the run with a small treat. With the girls safe...
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    Sentinel Snow Day

    For a first snow in Virginia, yes, it is a lot of snow. The crew has handled it like older birds I think but I wouldn't know. This is my first baby flock.
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    Sentinel Snow Day

    Yesterday, the coop looked like this: This morning it looked like this: We all woke up to our first snow of the year here in the Virginia mountains. The first snow ever for the crew (just over 17 weeks old). With the lower polycarbonate panels, only a small amount ended up in the run, but...
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    Small flock with one rooster

    So an update on day 5 of only one rooster. So far, he has let the girls leave the coop first, enter the coop first, eat first and stood sentinel while they ate. On the occasions that he has tried to mate with them, if they squawked, he immediately let them be and gave them space. Today, he saved...
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    Rodent Problem - Please help & give advice

    Hi there, Are you still having the issue? burying hardware cloth, 0.5" wire mesh or hardware cloth. extend it 18" from the coop and make sure it comes up at covers the base of your foundation. It'll help keep anything that boroughs from getting in. I don't think there is anything that will keep...
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    Small flock with one rooster

    Thanks so much for the info. I'll be sure to keep a look out and correct as soon as I see it as he is only 17 weeks now and so far I have not seen any of this. When I let them out to free range, they all just file out including him. He's never charged me. There is a point in the afternoon that...
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    Those damn trash pandas

    Where I live, it's legal to kill an animal that is threatening your live stock, even bears. We are not allowed to relocate them. If you kill the raccoons, just be aware that they can carry rabies and contact with their saliva or infected tissue can transmit the disease to humans. Any little cut...
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