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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    We free range ours all day....They are just so happy going about every day. Yes we do lose some eggs to goannas but the girls now lay in one of 2 spots and we listen out for their laying songs.
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    Guide Coop pages and member pages tutorial and feedback

    Fabulous coop. How many chickens?
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    We've got 10 happy girls and are getting 8 or 9 eggs a day. Only less on the days when we aren't here to collect as they lay.....a goanna is getting those that we aren't quick at collecting. Can't do much about them though.....the girls give me an alert and I do the big mean scary thing and...
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    Looks like you've been given some good advice. They will get in the habit of going home of an evening. I had one that wanted to stay out for a few days but as it got dark, I'd collect her from where she had chosen to overnight, and I put her back in the coup. That only took a couple of...
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    Goannas are nasty sly pieces of work. They eat the eggs whole, they scare the chooks and they can inflict quite a nasty injury to other animals and indeed to humans. If you suffer a scratch or a bite from a goanna, you can't have it stitched as they turn septic......nasty things all...
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    my girls all seem to be laying but we have been having some goanna trouble. We've been working on ways of keeping the goanna out of the chicken coup.....with limited success at present, but persisting.
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    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    not all girls can pop out the big ones for their first.
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    Its still morning and I have 7 eggs so far with one of our ladies currently in the nest. They all seem to like the one nest although I've also had to keep my eyes and ears peeled for the alternate nesting sites. Lacey has decided that the footwell of the ford capri in the carport is her...
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    Guide Coop pages and member pages tutorial and feedback

    All of these coops are just so ingenious.
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    How to get chickens in the coop at night

    my ladies are all now going into the coop just before the sun hits the deck. No hassle just in and up on the roost. It took a few weeks of going in after dark with a torch to get them up on the roost but now its just natural for them to do so.
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    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    Absolutely beautiful girls and so relaxed looking. I'm sure that they are giving you nice eggs.
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    how awful to lose your girls to pests such as that.
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    Two eggs this morning. I'll have to make some more nests for the girls because they were lined up for the one that they are using. I actually know which of the girls laid today's eggs. So exciting.
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    We're up to egg number 4 now and neighbours have been busy dropping in egg cartons and hints.
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    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    So sad about that.
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