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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    About 4 weeks ago: We got 4 today from our 4 hens. First day for 4 eggs, it was 2 a day for a few weeks, and then 3 each day for the last week or so.
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    Crumbles vs. Pellets

    It's also the main ingredient in dog food, but it's not good for them either (or us, for that matter). It's cheap, stores and travels well, and you can live on it, that is why grain is the main ingredient. Chickens should have bugs and grass and flowers, berries and seeds. That's the natural...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Sally, Since I'm in it for the eggs, I'm thinking leghorns or Rhode Island Reds. Maybe Sex-Links. Leaning towards the Reds, since Leghorns are kinda boring to look at. Any egg laying powerhouses that I can get locally. I'll be ready around late Feb, early March. I'd like to just start with...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    York PA here, looking to start chickens in the spring. Probably just 4-5 hens for the wife and I.
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    New member from PA (USA).

    There's a PA site?
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    Flax seeds??

    Not sure about duckweed, but animal sources of omega 3's are always better than plant sources. Hogweed/pigweed/purslane are considered the highest plant source of O3's, and it grows in your lawn (pigweed anyway).
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    Assess my coop design for predator threats

    If everything, including the roof and floor, is encased in HW cloth with no gaps, you should be fine. Use a heavy stapler, like the copper ones on wooden boxes, not the $5 one from Home Depot. It might stress the chickens if predators are testing the coop all the time. If the roost/nest area...
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    What type of light source???

    I would think something like a 17w daylight compact fluorescent bulb would be fine. Unless you want to spring for a fancy LED bulb (still kinda pricey). I'm not sure if the new LED bulbs produce a nice daylight color or not, but you would use less electricity. By the way, it's like 57 in...
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    New member from PA (USA).

    I've been lurking for a bit. Planning on getting a few hens or pullets (4-6) for eggs in the spring. I'm planning on building my own coop. Found the site a few months ago, and I will say that this is the best site on the web for info.
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    Flax seeds??

    Free range chickens that eat plenty of insects will have more EPA/DHA (Omega 3) than chickens fed flax seed. Flax (linseed) contains the precursor to EPA/DHA in the form of ALA and LA (linoleic acids), which must be converted into EPA/DHA in the chicken's body (same thing happens in humans)...
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