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    Living in a rural area in Southwest Québec, in a big log house. With (currently) two feral...

    Living in a rural area in Southwest Québec, in a big log house. With (currently) two feral cats, some chickens and a pond down the hill. chplonque.jpg CHATEAU PLONQUE 2008 (The dog died several years ago and the kids have all moved out)
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    HI! And HELP! My Bovans won't stop laying!

    Trouble around this rural neighbourhood is that friends and neighbours ALREADY have chickens or know someone who does. Hmm... the UPS or Mail-lady...! That's worth a try! I had a few chickens (and sheep) 25-30 years ago when my kids were small. Now, as an incipient geezer, I'm back in the biz...
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    HI! And HELP! My Bovans won't stop laying!

    It wasn't a mess-up. We knew they were prolific layers- He (a suburbanite) decided to keep chickens late last summer, and "a friend of a friend" told him about a small scale chicken factory (~ 2000 birds) a few miles away from them. So the chicken-factory man actually GAVE him 11 or 11 young...
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    HI! And HELP! My Bovans won't stop laying!

    My 5 white Bovans just keep laying and laying. I got them from a friend last summer, who originally bought a dozen or so of them "2nd-hand" from a small-scale egg-factory nearby, and gave me five. Now, he's ordered a few brown bovans and wants to give me a couple. in 30 days, I get about 145...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Ha! I love Legs-BBQed! But the more and more, I'm getting into chickens (NOT in the biblical sense!) the more and more I'm becoming a vegetarian. I've already given up BUYING pork, but if someone invites me over for a roast pork, (hint-hint) I'll go- but be prepared for a small admonition about...
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