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    Rats in chicken pen!!!

    I'll bet most of us have rats or other rodents around the chicken coop. Just about everyone with chickens in my neighborhood has rats under the coop. They only rarely get into my coop however because I have hardware cloth under the entire coop and up one foot all around -- that is how we...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Plymouth Rock

    Here is my old lady barred rock, about five years old and still laying several eggs a week! She is a sweet girl.
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    I NEED CHICKEN NAMES FAST!!

    My hens are named: ChiChi, LuLu, CoCo, and ZsaZsa. (Used to have a rhode island red named Clay.) The first two were named by the little girls across the street -- their mom gave me the chickens. The next two I named that way to keep with the goofy pattern. If you like Audrey Hepburn, why...
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    Food Scraps?

    Great looking girls!
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    pross/cons of chickens?

    Yes, this is a fairly low maintenance way to do it. We have a lot of Pine straw in our yard, so I just throw some more in the run every couple of days. I've cleaned it out completely only once in the last year. I clean out the house part of the coop more often, and clean the nest box as...
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    Beacon, NY -- Watch out Chicken Owners!

    Karen, I live in raleigh,NC, which is a fair sized city. We have an annual "tour d'coop" with many coops in the less suburban parts of the city, and I would say at least half a dozen flocks within a four block radius of our house. My husband put up a privacy fence 6 feet high the length of the...
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