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    Which to eat???

    Hi all! I want to get some meat birds this spring, but I was told the classic meat birds (Broilers???) need to be kept with very little room to move and get so fat that they can barely walk from one side of their little enclosure to the other. Having fallen in love with my egg birds, I can't...
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    Winter watering solution?

    Any ideas on how to keep a metal, 3 gallon waterer from freezing? It's the kind that has a full cover that creates a vacuum so that only a small amount of water moves into the tray. (I JUST spend 35.00 on it at the feed store, without really thinking about winter.
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    Hen laying from her perch...

    New question: When I go to work I have to let the hens out of their coop about an hour and a half earlier than when I stay home. This must be before my girl was laying, because today there were no eggs, not even broken ones. The decoy eggs had been moved around a bit, so I know someone noticed...
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    I had no idea a hen could fart!!

    I heard my chicks fart when they were living in my kitchen.
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    Hen laying from her perch...

    Thanks! I don't have any golf balls or fake eggs, so I'll try a couple of real eggs tonight and see what I find in the morning.
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    I'm not sure if this is from one of my bantams, or from a RIR. It was the smallest scrambled egg I've ever had, but it sure was yummy!
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    Hen laying from her perch...

    Hi All! I'm new to chickens and this site, and I need some help. I've been reading the forum for a bit, so I know you all know so much!! I have 9 hens, 6 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Bantams of some sort. The RIR's are about 4 1/2 mos., and the bantams 5 1/2 mos. One of my girls started laying 2...
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