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    What are Your Chickens Named?

    Our girls are Sister, Mamacita, Margoux (Hemmingway) Buffy, Blue, Dolly (Parton), Lucy (Ball), Annie (LaMotte) and Grey the Rooster. Oh and we have a turkey who serves as body guard. Tyrone the Turkey.
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    Surprise! It's a rooster!

    I guess this is a common problem. Thought we got six new hens (to add to our existing four layers) but one is starting to crow. I'm a newbie and am wonderful what this will mean to our eggs. We're not interested in hatching at this time, just in having eggs to eat. How is the rooster going to...
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    Young male turkey challenging husband and teenage son

    Hmmmmmm, I don't think so. We've only had him a couple months but it does seem like it started when man child came home for Christmas.
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    Young male turkey challenging husband and teenage son

    A friend gave us a six-month-old male turkey, a month or two ago. I think he's trying to establish alpha male and is in competition with my husband and 19-year-old son (who's home from college). We got him to guard our free-range chickens (who roam all day and go into the coop at night. He does...
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    Chickens and Mushrooms

    Gotta love these stinkers. The other day, I was planting ground cover between some stepping stones. I got a bunch planted and looked back to see my girls were steady "unplanting", as fast as I was planting.
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    Will my chickens eat my mushrooms?

    Thanks, Kay Tee. I'm doing some composters and some in plugs in old logs. You're totally right. They are going to scratch through my compost. Ugh. Guess, I'm erecting some more fencing.
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    Will my chickens eat my mushrooms?

    I am about to set up two mushroom gardens (white caps and shitake) and don't know if my free-range girls are going to eat all my effort. I've only had them about five months and let them roam from noon until nightfall each day. I fenced off my vegetable garden with temporary fencing, to keep...
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    Chickens and Mushrooms

    I am about to set up two mushroom gardens (white caps and shitake) and don't know if my free-range girls are going to eat all my effort. I've only had them about five months and let them roam from noon until nightfall each day. I fenced off my vegetable garden with temporary fencing, to keep...
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    Laying eggs I can't get to

    I was wondering whether they usually lay in the a.m. I work at home, so could just let them out in the afternoon, after they have laid. Or I was wondering whether I should build a box that looks just like their nesting box, fill it with the nesting material and put it under the house (but in a...
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    Laying eggs I can't get to

    We have our girls in a chicken tractor and let them roam the yard all day. Here's my problem. Our house (people house, not chicken house) is raised and my girls are just starting to lay. They are going up under the house during the day then later I'll find the eggs they laid under there out in...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    We did it when I was a kid. You make a pin hole on either end and blow all the contents out. That way you can save the egg without the fear of breaking it one day, and having that rotten egg stink to deal with. It was A LOT hard than I remembered. I had to keep making the pin hole bigger and...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    This is my son, Jonah, blowing his very first egg, so he can keep it.
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