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    Ended - NYD Hatch-along Contest #1: Total Number of Eggs Set

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    Slipped Tendon in Pullet's Hock - Attempt At Healing

    I love your ingenuity, great idea using the scissors as a brace. Keep us updated.
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    Cost vs. benefit analysis

    I am new to the chicken game, I have 4 hens that began laying steadily last June. They are averaging a 50lb bag of crumbles around every 8 weeks and they are laying an average of just under 3 eggs a day. So in 6 weeks we ate 10 dozen eggs which at the market cost 25 bucks and the bag of feed...
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    Just Watched one of my Reds Kill and Eat a snake.

    Interesting. I came home from work last night and found an 18" long tail of a black snake in my backyard. This morning I found a 3" long piece of the head and neck and a few paces away the rest of the body, about 12" worth was lying on the ground. So some time yesterday my four hens tore up...
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    Our new hot weather coop

    Three reasons. It may keep the coop cooler although I didn't measure the temp with or without the panels so I don't know for sure. Also I noticed how loud this roof is in a downpour so now it is quieter for the girls. Most importantly for me was I didn't want the hassle of screening each opening...
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    Our new hot weather coop

    Thank you all! Yes we would like to have six or eight but the local ordinance only allows four hens. Although if we ever escape suburbia there will be a whole lot more.
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    Florida Backyard Coop

    Backyard hens became legal in Pinellas County Florida December 2011 so after a bunch of research we took the plunge and acquired 4 chicks the first week of 2012. Here are the lil cuties, two Rhode Island Reds and two Barred Plymouth Rocks. By March I was ready to start the coop...
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    Our new hot weather coop

    Backyard hens became legal in Pinellas County Florida December 2011 so after a bunch of research we took the plunge and acquired 4 chicks the first week of 2012. Here are the lil cuties, two Rhode Island Reds and two Barred Plymouth Rocks. By March I was ready to start the coop...
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