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  1. Chicken in sunset

    Chicken in sunset

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    SBPDX's birds.

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    Where do you keep your chicks?

    I kept my girls inside for the first three groups of hens we raised. We kept them under lights in increasingly larger containers until they were fully-feathered. And it took forever, it was stinky and required regular (one or more bedding changes per day). We stopped that this year and I will...
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    Oregon

    Garden home is a little triangle of unincorporated Washington County. It's between Portland, Tigard and Beaverton. Of course, there may be more than one Garden Home, but that's the one that I'm in. I can walk through the streets and see many houses with chickens, and one place had a big tom...
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    Things you never said until you had chickens.......

    My wife: "Three chickens, three ducks, no eggs... looks like I'm having protein shake this morning. Lazy birds."
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    Things you never said until you had chickens.......

    "Somebody get those chickens out of the kitchen!"
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    adding ducks to a chicken flock

    I had four chickens (all hens) when I introduced three Indian Runner ducks (also hens). The chickens certainly rule the roost, and despite the fact that the ducks are much larger, they still defer to the chickens in matters of first crack at the kitchen scraps and feeding time. However...
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    Gardening with chickens (and other poultry)

    Each year I allow the flock to roam through the dormant vegetable garden scratching and pecking. When I turn the soil over in spring I'll give them one last chance to dig around. I think the post-rototill is their favorite time. In fact, when they see the tiller or shovel come out, I become...
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    Oregon

    Garden Home, Oregon. The current flock includes six birds including three chickens and three ducks. Their names are: 1. Regular Chicken (she's blind in one eye, and she's the leader); 2. Red Chicken (beautiful bird, scared of her own shadow); 3. Black Chicken (The #2 in command, after...
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    Raccoons and Dogs.

    Over the last few years I have lost one chicken to a hawk and another to the neighbor's outdoor cat. I live in Garden Home, Oregon (a small village in SW Portland) and there are a number of raccoons in the neighborhood. These raccoons frequently go foraging out of the creek across the street...
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