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    Would love some advice, please! Hens and eggs

    Ok, so I put the mustard egg in there, and when I got to the coop this morning it had been pecked, and I saw mustard on one of the chicken's beaks. So I made another mustard egg and watched them. Two of the chickens are fighting over who gets to sit on the egg. If one is sitting on the egg...
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    Would love some advice, please! Hens and eggs

    Oh! Duhhhhh why didn't I think of that?? LOL Thank you. :-D
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    Would love some advice, please! Hens and eggs

    Ok, I will try the mustard thing this weekend and let you know if it works, and I will spread oyster shell in their pen so they get lots and lots of it. I'll need to buy a syringe for the mustard, I guess! haha :) Thank you! I hope they start laying more eggs, I think a raccoon has rattled...
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    Would love some advice, please! Hens and eggs

    Hi there-- Thank you for reading this! My hens are about a year old and were laying about one egg every other day between the three of them. Now they are laying one egg between the three of them every 2 or 3 days! And here are some annoying things that have happened. One of the hens are...
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    Question about raising chicks

    And thank you so much for your help, I"m glad that if I want to raise chicks I won't have to take a sabbatical from work! haha
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    Question about raising chicks

    I read it on this site: http://smallfarm.about.com/od/farmanimals/a/htraisechicks.htm and this site: http://www.avianweb.com/caringforpoultrychicks.html "Keep in mind that even the relatively independent poultry chicks require tending to at least 5 times a day. Their litter needs to be...
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    Question about raising chicks

    Hi everyone! I've never raised chicks before, but I am doing a lot of reading and have some questions. Some of the reading material has said that you have to check on your chicks at least 5 times a day, all day long for 4 weeks at first. So this would mean that I have to take a month off of...
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    New here and new to raising chickens!

    Thank you very much! My husband thinks I'm crazy for doing this but I just know we will find it very rewarding. He will get into it once he sees how nice it is, I'm sure.
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    New here and new to raising chickens!

    Hi everyone-- I'm really excited to get started raising my own chickens. I have a coop and chicken run arriving on Saturday and on Sunday I will be getting some Cuckoo Maran hens, 4 of them to start with. I've been reading up on everything for weeks now, and feel really good about this...
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