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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Thanks for the information. I'm used to paying $3.50 for RI Red pullets at the feed store. I didn't know some chicken breeds could be worth so much.
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Over the side yard fence, a neighbor with 3 silkies told me yesterday that silkies were hard to find here in So. Calif. He said 2 hens and a rooster would cost $50. Is that true? I want to buy several hens this spring that will sit on and hatch their eggs and eggs from full sized hens. Would...
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    How to keep sparrows/wild birds out of run!?

    Sparrows here fly right through the holes in the chicken wire. Hardware cloth with 1/2" openings would keep them out, but it's fairly expensive compared to chicken wire. I might try installing chicken wire with smaller openings designed to keep baby chick's in, when I have the next chicken pen...
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    How to keep sparrows/wild birds out of run!?

    Same problem here without all the creative attempts at solutions.
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    Finally Joined

    Been caring for chickens in the High Mojave Desert is S.E. California for 27+ years, on a small scale. I had 40 chickens before roaming dogs from a ranch a mile away massacred 30 of them in Aug. 2022. The dead bodies went into the compost pile or future tree holes. Now I just have 12 chickens. I...
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    Review by 'Mojave Desert Chickn Lady' in article 'Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors'

    I've raised chicks I bought at the feed store for 10+ years. They all ended up terrified of me as adults when I fed them in their pen. Now I know why. I will try to copy azygous' chick raising methods that work so well. I want my chicks to trust me and not run for their lives when I go to feed...
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