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    Topic of the Week - Gardening with Chickens

    We have apx 40 chickens, layers, roosters for meat, some meat birds these are chicks now. and two groups of 5 month pullets As they grow we cut their wing feathers to keep them out of the garden. They love our broccoli and kale, we do three crops a year. We also rotate our grass into 5 sections...
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    Comment by 'rowboattom' in article 'Deciding To Free Range Your Flock'

    Enjoyed your article. We started our mixed flock last Sept. as chicks and have added over the year. We learned that the chicks will be eatten by the local cats and need to be contained in a 8'x8' wire cage 18" high, we move it around the back yard. The 5 month old hen are free rangeing half of...
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    egg peekers

    Thanks for the tip I constucted two roll away nests in the rolling coop and two nests under the bushes. No more broken eggs. It is good to come home to 16 eggs after 3 days away Tom
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    egg peekers

    Hi Pyxis Thanks I am an Ex New Yorker But Loving the West Coast and no SNOW I have sent many summers as a kid in the Senica Falls area TOM
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    egg peekers

    Mountain Peeps Many Thanks for the link We are going back to our 1/4 acre farm tonight and we are not counting our eggs till we arrive. 7 egg layer with more growing up been away 2 nights we will see hope for the best Tom
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    egg peekers

    Windyhillfarm Thanks for the egg blowing tips Tom
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    egg peekers

    Thanks for the tip I will be fireing up the table saw. Tom
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    egg peekers

    Thanks We are delighted to join We are learnig alot Tom
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    egg peekers

    When my wife and I return to our 1/4 acre farm we find fewer eggs and some with holes peeked in them. At first we believed it was the blue jays but now we find it is one of the RIR chickens. My wife gathers the eggs when still warm when we are home but we are looking for a better way. Tom
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