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    Could I manage a flock?

    Welcome to BYC. With that schedule you might want to consider pullets or already grown hens rather than day old or young chicks. They require a good bit of time and attention daily until they have a couple of weeks growth on them. Conversing with others who work long schedules and have chickens...
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    HELP! Nesting Box Problem

    That's a really good idea. My pullets aren't laying yet but when they get close to that age, I'm gonna get those fake eggs and/or golf balls right off the bat. Thanks!
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    HELP! Nesting Box Problem

    I just came across a website by a woman who has been raising chickens for years and what she wrote about teaching her layers to lay eggs in the correct place was to: keep the layers inside the coop until noon for a few days. They apparently did their laying in the morning and this trained/taught...
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    Greetings from someone going in Circles

    It's great to be able to "talk chicken" with people who relate to that somewhat quirky fascination with our feathered comedians. It's been raining for days here and there is a puddle in the chicken run in front of the gate. My girls get to free range sometimes but yesterday they wouldn't go out...
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    Greetings from someone going in Circles

    So true! and Thank you for your welcome.
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    Greetings from someone going in Circles

    When I was 17 I left the farm for the bright lights of the city and swore never to live on a farm again. Now I'm 58 and what have I gone and done? Live in the woods and bought half a dozen chickens! And even worse, joined a chicken forum. Who was it said, "What we resist, we become."...
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