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    Vacation

    I have to go out of the country this fall/winter Nov-Feb months and am looking for somebody around the Wurtsboro - Middletown N.Y. area to board my 3 Rode Island Red hens. They are healthy, happy, good layers and love to be pet! Any takers?
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    Soft Shelled Egg (not soft boiled)

    Thank you both for your helpful posts. Yes, Sheila, she does have a nest box, which worked for the other two hens. I may try some of your diet ideas, though. Anyway, maybe it's as you say, Maree, with this being the very first egg laying experiences, and so they're not in the egg laying...
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    Soft Shelled Egg (not soft boiled)

    Hi again! I got my second egg from my #2 hen yesterday. My wife, who was raised in the city at first didn't seem that enthusiastic, but has fallen in love with the hens, and has spent a lot of time figuring out names, so now we have: Aunty Em, Dorothy and Margery! (That's what she calls the...
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    chipmunk droppings in feed

    Thank you everybody for the welcoming! I'll be closing up all small holes, and yes, don't want to be feeding the whole neighborhood! I have another topic, but will start a new thread for that.
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    chipmunk droppings in feed

    Hi new member here in southern catskills new york. I haven't had chickens since I was a kid. We got three rhode island red pullet hens two weeks ago and got our first egg yesterday labor day, hoping for another today for that first omelet. I have a chipmunk that is getting into the feeder and...
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    Concerning chickens, mice, snakes, and cats.

    Hi new member here in southern catskills new york. I haven't had chickens since i was a kid. We got three rode island red pullet hens two weeks ago and got our first egg yesterday labor day, hoping for another today for that first omelet. Our cat seems totally disinterested. I do have a chipmunk...
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