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    ISO coop in Maryland, DMV area

    I'm in Prince George's county, Maryland looking for a coop. Maybe someone is ready to pass one on? It must be big enough for 5 - 8 hens.
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    This is my peeve. At this time, none are laying in the nest boxes - I only have 7, but still, not one could be bothered with the nest boxes. currently, we have "the nest box chair" on the porch, under the porch couch and under the deck as favorite places. In the past, they have laid on the bed...
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    Review by 'morsekathan' in article 'Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!'

    Because you can never have less than 5 stars! And if each of the stars has a name - like brilliant, funny, entertaining, truer words were never said, and OMG - then that star counts as three and that makes 15 - Rating math! I'm up to two chickens I think. I just got 5 chicks for my broody hen...
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    Will my Broody Hen accept store bought chickens?

    I've only done this once, but it went really smoothly. I slipped the chicks under the mom at night and she woke up all excited "virgin birth!" I put her in her own little brooder, it was in the run, but separated from the other hens by fence. That also allowed me to feed the chicks medicated...
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    Review by 'morsekathan' in article 'Keeping Chickens Without Free Ranging'

    Great ideas - and if I may, people should apply some of these things to their brooders. Baby chicks need stuff to play with and places to explore. It's so sad to me to see big brooders with nothing for the chicks to do! We always put in logs and sticks. Hay is a great idea too.
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    Hard poop encrusted on butt fluff, what should I do?

    i just give my hens baths when they have poop balls stuck to their butt. They love the baths. I actually found this thread by searching on poopy butts because I wanted to see if there was anything else. But it seems pretty common and normal and I've had this with other chickens, so I'll just...
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    Comment by 'morsekathan' in article 'Top 10 Best Egg Producing Chicken Breeds'

    This is my feeling too. My production hens laid an egg everyday and then dropped dead at 2 years. They are bred to lay without any consideration on what takes out of them. I don't have them anymore. It broke my heart to see them give their all at that cost.
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    Review by 'morsekathan' in article 'Top 10 Best Egg Producing Chicken Breeds'

    Nice article, but what it doesn't address is how long these breeds live. We found that every one of our sex linked died around 2 years. Just dropped dead. We had several die within a short period, and I had a necropsy done on one. She was all tumor. I think these breeds are just breed to be...
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    MARYLAND THREAD!

    I would love to provide a home for these hens. I'm not sure how to email you directly, but I'm at morsekathan at gmail dot com. I have 4 spoiled hens living the life of Riley in my backyard and sometime in my house because they have figured out the dog door!
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    Is it me or is having chickens complicated?

    I have had a lot of predators but never had a hen kill her sister hens. I just don't' believe they would do so, and some of my hens are super mean to the other ladies. And yes, it's a little work to raise hens, but worth it. I'm so envious that yours snuggle you. I've only had one if lots...
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    What do you recommend?

    I have a converted playhouse coop and a big covered run. My hens are locked in the coop at night and I have hardware cloth over the windows (it has three windows). That is an expense I would not skimp on. I also put plexiglass storms on the windows in the winter. The hens appreciate it...
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    Can you make spicy eggs, by feeding your hens chili?

    Some people feed them marigold petals to make the yolks a deeper yellow and I once read an article where the henkeeper experimented with different amounts of cayenne to get deeper color yolks. Her customers preferred the eggs with deep colored yolks. She had a whole page of results!
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    My First eggs

    Oh yes. I tried that but it took me so long to teach them their names that they all decided to lay under the porch instead. :hit
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    Silly hen not roosting

    I have several hens who are perfectly ok who prefer the nest box to roosting. I personally wish they would roost as the nest box gets pretty poopy, but turns out I'm not in charge in the hen house! If I were, everyone would be much better behaved :wee
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    They've all gone mad! Whole flock broody!

    My hens never leave the nest box when they go broody and they don't have eggs to sit on either! Because, as we all know, there is only one "good" nest box, the other hens squish in to lay, but I take the eggs away. So, I can verify that no eggs are needed for a hen to sit and sit and sit. We...
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