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    Bantam or runt?

    My wife, the animal expert, says that chickens don't have runts. Well, we got a dozen Whiting True Blue and they are 14 weeks old. One of them is half the size of all her sisters. Is this normal? Is she a bantam? Does that happen sometimes?
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    Chickens as a Business

    I have 40 hens at 12 weeks old, and got 20 more today. We lost our flock of 36 last November because we had the wrong kind of dogs. In one night (possibly one hour), they killed every chicken. It has taken us this long to reinforce the coop and get a new batch of chicks. We thought we could...
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    Chickens as a Business

    Thank you for that vast amount of knowledge. I read carefully. We are planning to retire different breeds at different times. For example, all the Whiting True Blues will be the same age, and the red sex-linked will be the same age, so that we would retire all the birds of that breed at once. I...
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    Chickens as a Business

    We might be a little bigger than the average-sized flock, but we live in a rural community and have designated 1500 sq ft for our coop/run, all enclosed. And if we need to, we can make it bigger. With that size, we believe we can handle 150 chickens, and the question becomes how best to manage...
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    Arizona backyard chickens - now legal

    My coop is 8' 6" high and 16' x 24', making it 384 square feet. I'm working on fencing in a run area, for a total area of 900 square feet. But then, I live in a very rural area.
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    Why We Use a Welcoming Coop Instead of a Garage Brooder

    We have a coop split into three sections. This allows us to take the chicks outside at 3 weeks and let them hear and see the adult hens. There are so many other reasons to have three separate sections in our coop. I'm so glad I built it that way.
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    Hello, Back Yard Chickens Community!

    You can listen to the first half of the first book in the YA Fantasy series on Rumble by searching for Grendelmen Publishing Audiobooks.
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    Hello, Back Yard Chickens Community!

    I write a fantasy series with dragons, swords, and Mages. I also write an eschatological novel series. They are both found at grendelmen.com
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    Hello, Back Yard Chickens Community!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We first got chickens in 2011. We had to take a 12-year break and got chickens again in the middle of last year. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 40 hens, 1 rooster (3) What breeds do you have? Black Australorp...
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