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    New to BYC and Fairly New to Raising Chickens

    What I LOVE about the chickens and horses is the way the chickens love to scratch up the horse manure and eat the larvae in it. Barn yard has never been so clean and helps with reducing parasite load in horses. When we first got the laying hens they would find a fresh pile and excitedly call all...
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    New to BYC and Fairly New to Raising Chickens

    I'm also a 4H mom & leader (horse project) do you do a chicken project? How does that work? We're in Canada but should be fairly similar program. We have been considering changing projects so we can have some time off during the year. The horses are addictive but are almost a full year project...
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    New to BYC and Fairly New to Raising Chickens

    Hi Everyone New to BYC and Fairly New to raising chickens and turkeys. We started raising poultry 3 years ago to provide another product for our customers at local farmers markets with our elk & buffalo. Of course as soon as we started selling the broilers everyone assumed we had laying birds...
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    Do Different Breeds Start Laying at Different Times???

    I have some EE & a variety of other chickens hatched at the same time. I kept them all together away from my older hens so i would know exactly when they would start to lay. I sold some of these birds at about 12-16 weeks. I told the buyers they could lay as early as 16 weeks and up to 20 weeks...
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    Is this an Ameraucana?

    I was sold Ameraucana chicks this year from a hatchery that turned this color. I have a whole coop full of them in assorted colors. just read some of your posts - not sure if some of the posts are correct as am new at this but our hens just started laying blue eggs. I was under the impression...
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