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    You can feed them any fresh food they will eat, which is most.

    You can feed them any fresh food they will eat, which is most.
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    If none of your birds are laying, this is at least consistent. They may be too young to lay, or...

    If none of your birds are laying, this is at least consistent. They may be too young to lay, or past their prime and are 'laid out'. Often folks will give older hens away If you got the birds as day olds, you know their age. They usually start laying at about 5 months of age. Proper layer feed...
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    Things you wish you knew starting out?

    Usually when my hens got older and laid few eggs, they were 'processed' and became fowl in the freezer. Always kept different colored leg rings on them to know their exact age. That and stiffening on the tip of the breast bone gave me a good idea of which birds needed culling. Convinced the...
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    Toss that egg. Will never hatch with a hole in the shell and a loss of inner material.

    Toss that egg. Will never hatch with a hole in the shell and a loss of inner material.
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    No rooster, no hatching of course. Collect the eggs as soon as you can. If you leave them your...

    No rooster, no hatching of course. Collect the eggs as soon as you can. If you leave them your hens might become " broody". Sitting on the eggs to hatch while laying no more eggs. Bring them in, clean the shell if need be, store them in the fridge, and enjoy the freshest, best eggs you have ever...
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