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    Newbie here; stoked her hubby is going to let her have some chickens.

    I wanted to get heritage breeds. I don't want to "weed out" non layers. I suppose that is why they have the dual purpose birds? When they stop producing you use them for meat? I just found three mature cochins and one rooster a man locally cant take with him on his move.....he said they are good...
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    Newbie here; stoked her hubby is going to let her have some chickens.

    SO no chicken wire.....I have some tin roof panels that were on the property when we bought it, and I planned on using it as a surround on their pen. I read digging 18 inches deep with the cloth or roof flashing would keep predators from digging in. I was going to use the tin like some would...
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    Newbie here; stoked her hubby is going to let her have some chickens.

    I am at the lowest part of the Peidmont area of South Carolina. Borderline Central. Your suggestion of multi breeds sounds great, but reading how much some put stock in one breed over the other made me think I needed to only get one breed so as not to mess with the traits.
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    Newbie here; stoked her hubby is going to let her have some chickens.

    Thanks for the heads up on the Guineas...I have more problems with my dogs running off than them having ticks, so I might want to pass on Guineas for running off. I would like to be as small of an aggravation to my neighbors as possible.
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    Newbie here; stoked her hubby is going to let her have some chickens.

    With that being said, that is as far as I have gotten. I won't post questions on this intro. I will commence to reading the forum before annoying ya'll with redundancy. I have a little over an acre in the city limits of a small town. I will have a good size garden this year, along with 6...
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