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    No eggs in 6 months.

    our egg count was way down and we figured the hens were getting too old. But I had a particularly rangy quarter of elk on the freezer.. Started cooking and feeding it to the flock and our egg count is back up. Also we crush every egg shell and feed it back to the girls with their daily feed...
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    How unusual is this?

    Once my leghorns started laying, they never looked back. One a day for several months now. My sexlinks took longer. At 32 weeks they started.Pretty little rose colored eggs from them, but not daily. Yet. I've got a thirty three week old wellsummer that's still not laying. Willy the Freeloader...
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    What are favorite scraps? And what not to feed...

    Except for the no no's I feed my chickens almost all our table scraps. They love meat! hamburger, salami, chili, spaghetti, ham, pork. I am somewhat relieved to say they don't eat chicken. That would be so rude. I mix all the scraps with a cup of scratch and let them pick at it. The next day I...
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    Introducing 8 week olds to 13 week olds

    You're lucky that's all your rooster did. I was trying to pick up a hen and my too went ape. I ended up using up a box of band aids.I am just now getting a handle on him. If it wasn't for my companion, that cock would have left the walk.
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    The kindest neighbor.

    My roo has been crowing for about a month now. He is pretty loud. I live in a neighborhood where the houses are about 150 yards apart. That's a good thing, but I do worry about complaints. I told my neighbor I was sorry about the rooster's crowing and that I was deciding what to do about him...
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    You know you are "Country" when...

    I love this thread. I know we're in the country when Roo mounts one of his hens and the little girl who is visiting asks what he's doing? "Mating" says my companion. "Uhhh, showing how strong he is," says the mother of the little girl and makes a hasty retreat. Also, I doubt my country courage...
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    So dang cute.

    I have six-week-old chicks in the pen and coop with my eleven week old first flock. I tried so hard not to love them too much. Didn't even name them. But each day they get cuter. My adolescents act so sophisticated and leisurely. But these little kids are still wonderfully curious and playful...
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    Adventures with possums

    Please don't relocate them to Colorado.
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    Adventures with possums

    I don't believe I've ever seen a possum. Does Colorado have them? I've played Possum in the Gum Tree on the fiddle, but I guess I never thought what a possum was. I've told my children as they pretended to sleep that they were playing possum. But it was just words I'd heard. The pictures of...
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    Rhode Island Reds. Voracious?

    I have three leghorns, two gold stars, a Wellsummer and two RIR. All the R's do is eat eat eat. They crowd the others out of the feed. One of the reds is a cockerel. the other is a pullet. Do others find the RIR's cost effificent? Will my eggs equal my food input? The leghorns are lean and...
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    Zambia

    Wow. Good information. I knew if there was expertise it would be on BYC. I'll report back when I get home.
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    Zambia

    Is anyone on this site living in Zambia? I'm going there at the end of July. Would like to see chicken projects there.
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    Introducing chicks to free range older hens

    How cool is that. You're really out in the sticks. Is that ground cover oak brush? I'm trying to picture the woods the chickens wander into. So glad you found fairly grown hens. It's hard to picture such weather as you all get. Soon you'll be able to go get your new girls. My people are from...
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    Introducing chicks to free range older hens

    'That's so sad. I am sorry you lost your chickens. Coons are such a plague .Locking up the coop is what I have learned from you.It's easy now, but I can see me putting it off in the winter. Your little chicken pen and coop are charming. I can see all the love and care you put into it. We too...
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    Chickens won't go in coop at night!!!

    it seems like you don't have to put all the chickens in the coop. Just one. They will worry and fuss and go in the coop to see what's keeping her. One of the funniest things to watch in my chickens is their group mind. Maybe it's just because one of mine's a cockerel and he's conducting the...
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