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    Should I try to force using Nest Boxes at this point?

    Thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think I was just talking to myself lol I just decided to leave it on the porch for now. These guys like being close to the house, and I love having them close to the house, and it is so easy to go out on the porch and gather eggs. They are laying...
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    Should I try to force using Nest Boxes at this point?

    I thought (hoped) they might lay in their nest box this morning but nothing yet when I let them out. However once out they made a bee line to the front porch. Happy to say they both laid in the trash can on my front porch. Yes I guess I am happy. I spent a lot of money on my front porch and...
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    Should I try to force using Nest Boxes at this point?

    Little bit bummed. No eggs today. I hope I didnt mess up a good thing. :( I know they saw it on the porch, and were hanging around it at various times today. I just knew they were going to use it. But nothing. I know they don't necessarily lay every day, and it gets later every day so...
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    Price for Processing - what do you pay?

    Had I done my own, I thought I might skin them, though I hadn't heard of anyone else doing this. No one that I know anyways. We don't eat the skin, though I wouldnt be afraid to eat my own bird's skin, just use to taking off store bought skin. So anyways, I thought I would skin mine had I...
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    My Cornish X experiment

    OH that is good info to know. I did have water at one end, and feed hanging at the other, purely by accident but glad to know that may have been what helped them to do so well :) That barn is probably hmm about 30 feet long maybe? So they probably got plenty of exercise :) I asked my butcher...
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    Price for Processing - what do you pay?

    I don't feel so bad now :) I had wanted to do my own, but since I hadn't even seen it done before, I took them to a Mennonite place. They had cages I could borrow, so I made a trip to my favorite Dutch Store in the neighborhood so I could swing by and get the cages, so I don't include that...
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    My Cornish X experiment

    I had my first ones this year also. They were almost exactly 8 weeks old when we had them butchered. 20 of them. Plump little things but we did not lose even one. They were butchered July 2, so not too terribly hot yet while growing. (central Missouri) I had these visions of free range...
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    Should I try to force using Nest Boxes at this point?

    Ok so I wasn't sure what to do, so I thought I would just go with it. The two hens of laying age are both using the same trash can here relatively close to the house, so I decided to just go with it. They are happy, it is easy for me to check, so decided why fight it. I was concerned because...
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    Should I try to force using Nest Boxes at this point?

    New to chickens. Well I had some 30 years ago but barely even remember it. So basically new to chickens :) Anyways, they are great about returning to the coop at night. Nest boxes have been in since coop was completed (converted) so for several months now. The girls just started laying...
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