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    Breed suggestions for docile roosters?

    I have the following rooster breeds, all of which are pretty docile: • Salmon Faverolle • Old English bantam • Sultan • Sultan/Silkie mix (hatched this past spring) • Buff Orpington • Light Brahma • some sort of Maran - still can’t figure out exactly what he is • Light Brown Leghorn I’ve got...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Expand Your Egg Laying Flock?

    Started out by buying chicks last summer, bought more chicks this spring, and now I have a broody Silkie sitting on several eggs. I’m hoping she’ll hatch them, and then that will be my new way of getting chicks moving forward.
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    Talk me off the Ledge... $2000 for a chicken coop!

    We built a coop for $170 last year. It was mostly made of free/cheap pallets, some purchased materials, and materials we had in our shed. This thing is solid and huge. It weighs somewhere around half a ton, and it took seven grown adults to move it when we bought a different house late last...
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