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    What is the best tomato to grow?

    My favorites for pure taste are Brandywine and Supersweet 100. I don't have much luck with growing Brandywine from seed but get a few ugly tomatoes with wonderful taste from them. Also discovered Burpee Sun Gold hybrid last year at our community garden and got my own seed this year. It was...
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    Black Cochin grow quicker than buff Cochin??

    What did your black cochin turn out to be? I have a 10 week old bought as a girl but so big and comb and waddle already I am worried.
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    How to train chickens to go back to their coop

    I probably should have read this thread before I put my chicks in their run for playtime yesterday. My dear husband enclosed a 15 by 15 area with chicken wire and I covered it with bird netting and put my 6 chicks to play in it because the weather was nice. They had a grand old time. They...
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    Anyone know about rabbits?

    I'm new to chickens but know a little about rabbits. I have 2 lionhead mixes (brother and sister from a friend's neighbor oops I thought I had 2 female rabbits.....) I initially hoped to keep them inside but they did not take long to prove messy and smelly. We kept them inside the first winter...
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    Newbie with questions

    Thank you all for your comments. I have a lot to learn for sure. When I first found this site and read some of the comments I was surprised at how passionate people are about their chickens. Now that I have had my chicks for about a month, I see how that can happen. I can see myself becoming...
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    Newbie with questions

    Hi, I am a first time chicken owner. We recently moved to "the country" and have 11 acres. I have been learning about chickens from my neighbor who has about 30 chickens and sells eggs. I was going to get 6 Buff orphingtons but she advised against them because they are too broody. I wound up...
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    A passive solar air heater for the coop!

    Hello, I am soon to be moving to the "country" and will finally have the space to raise chickens. One of my concerns was keeping them warm. I thought they needed heat in the winter. Is this not the case? I would be much more inclined to have chickens if I didn't have to worry about heaters...
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