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    Need advice on mixing flocks of different ages

    Well, tonight I took 4 of our babies and gave them to a friend down the street. I let the mama and her remaining babies free range with the older flock. I was gone longer than I had planned and it was dark when I got home. I went out to make sure they had made their way back to the coops and...
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    Need advice on mixing flocks of different ages

    Thanks for your reply! Kids sure do have a way of complicating things, lol. My original coop was bought as a coop that could house "up to 10 chickens" but we were comfortable with it housing our original 6 hens and 2 guineas. The guineas died early on and we didn't replace them and a raccoon...
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    Need advice on mixing flocks of different ages

    I currently have 5 hens (2 ameracaunas, 1 rir, 2 golden comets) who are about 1.5 years old. A few months ago, one of my golden comets went broody and I got fertilized eggs from a neighbor and some from my mom and she hatched 6 chicks. They are 7 weeks old today and have been outside, in a...
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    Too cold for baby chicks to be outside with mama?

    awesome! That's kind of what I figured she'd do but then I started to get worried and I'd hate to have something happen. I'm excited to have some new little chickies running around! I grew up on a farm and we just always seemed to have baby chicks or hens sitting on eggs but they weren't really...
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    Too cold for baby chicks to be outside with mama?

    I've got a broody hen currently sitting on 8 eggs that are due to hatch this upcoming weekend. Our weather finally started feeling more like fall and temps are now getting to the mid 40's at night, low 70's during the day. I've got a separate coop all ready for mama and her babies but now I'm...
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    Neighbor came over yesterday to talk to us about our chickens., need some advice

    Guys, lol...I know my chickens need to be in my yard. There was never a question about that. And we will be putting up a fence with our tax return. That wasn't my question and although I hate fences and wish that we didn't have to do it, we do so we will. That was never my question or the...
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    Neighbor came over yesterday to talk to us about our chickens., need some advice

    I know...we'll likely have to put up a fence. We can't fence the whole property though because 1: we can't afford to and 2: the logistics of fencing an odd shaped, mountain slanted, partially wooded lot is mind boggling. And I hate fences...hate hate hate them. We moved from a suburbia hell...
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    Neighbor came over yesterday to talk to us about our chickens., need some advice

    Like I said, I completely understand him not wanting animals in their yard. The dog has not been up there since that one time in March and the chickens I've caught up there twice this week, not like it's an ongoing problem and the chickens are now confined their run until I can figure out what...
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    Neighbor came over yesterday to talk to us about our chickens., need some advice

    I hope to be able to find a way to let them enjoy bugs and grass too. We had already talked about putting up a fence along the property line because the wife (the first time I've ever talked to her) screamed at me when our dog wandered up and sat in her yard. We had just started letting him off...
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    Neighbor came over yesterday to talk to us about our chickens., need some advice

    We've lived here just over a year. We're on 2.6.... acres zoned Woodland Conservation and Rural Farming, back up to a dairy farm on 2 sides of our property. There's barn cats every where, a few neighbors have chickens. I sometimes see them along the road, nobody has ever had problems. in fact...
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    First Egg Countdown

    Finally got my first egg 3 days ago from one of my Golden Comets that squatted the day before her first egg! They were exactly 20 weeks old and I had been waiting for what seemed like forever for them to start laying. She's been giving one small egg a day since and the other golden comet and one...
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    First Egg Countdown

    I've got 2 RIR and gold sexlinks that were 18 weeks on Wedensday and still nothing. Their combs and wattles are bright red and the other morning they had kicked all of the straw out of their nesting boxes so maybe they were investigating. I tried to keep them in their run for a few days, instead...
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    I finally get to share some pictures here! Our coop was built by an awesome mennonite guy so we can't take credit for that. We had great plans to build something but our schedules never allowed us to get it done before our chicks outgrew our upstairs bathroom. lol. So, this past weekend we were...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    I'm in Oley, Pa. Just got our first chicks a few weeks ago. I grew up on a farm and we had a bunch of chickens but I'm having to learn a lot again.
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    Hello from Pennsylvania!

    Thanks everyone! :)
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