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    How many of you make a profit from your chickens? How?

    We don't worry about making money from them, that was never the purpose....we just enjoy them. We have 8 hens, average 7 eggs a day. I sell the eggs for $2 a dozen to the "catty" women I work with, (but give them away to my friends and neighbors!) I just put the egg $ in an envelope, (not...
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    Pulling out each other's tail feathers

    I read some on your website, (love the hen cam). I am thinking I have some bored Princesses (if you go to todays newbie site it tells about our hens and their names). Gave them some Kohlrabi leaves and they loved it. I let them out to spend a beautiful Sunday afternoon wandering around the...
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    Pulling out each other's tail feathers

    We have 8 hens (2 red sex links, 3 Plymouth rock bards, 2 Speckeld Sussix and 1 buff Orpingtion). We bought them as chicks at the local feed store in February (President's day), so they are about 5 months old now. They have plenty of room (their coop is 4 x 8 feet with 3 nesting boxes...
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    Pulling out each other's tail feathers

    In the past couple of weeks we are having problems with several of our girl's getting picked on (or should I say "pecked" on?!) They are missing so many tail feathers they are getting bald bums. We had heard to put mentholatum on their bums to keep the others away, which has been mildly...
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    Newbie introduction

    We live in beautiful Northern Colorado at the base of the Rockies. We have been married for 28 years, have four children, 1 spoiled dog and 8 very pampered hens, who live in what we refer to as the Palace, constructed by my husband from as many recycled materials we could find at the Habitat...
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