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    how much do you charge for your eggs?

    This is so interesting. Being new to chickens and the farm life, I was wondering about so many things regarding egg selling. Seems like most of my questions have been answered. We sell, barter, and give away our eggs. We have standing orders for about 6 dozen per week, and these customers...
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    Any Floridians?

    Hello from Cocoa, Florida. Right next door to Port St. John, TurkenDuck73! Any other folks near Cocoa?
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    Help me decide what to do...story & questions

    Hello, this is a very interesting post. All the different viewpoints and strong feelings really get you thinking, which is good. Here's what I would do: go over to the "possible" owners house and tell them you found a badly injured chicken in your yard. Then say, it's still alive and you are...
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    How Richard and Judith went from the golf course to the "country" club

    Hello again, didn't know about the Florida thread. I will look into that. We are in Cocoa, Florida, which is on the east coast about midway down the state. Cape Canaveral is near here. I'm not sure what to call a blog about the adventures of our new life, but I sure have plenty of...
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    How Richard and Judith went from the golf course to the "country" club

    Hello again, I'm glad you enjoyed our story. It's a continuing saga of mistakes, triumphs, setbacks, accomplishments, and so much fulfillment. We are so happy with our "new" life on the farm. I guess we were probably always meant to be closer to the land--just never took the risk to change...
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    How Richard and Judith went from the golf course to the "country" club

    Hello, though I have posted a few questions here over the past few months, I have not properly introduced us. So here's our story. Until a year ago (September 2009), Richard and I lived in a gated community in a fancy town here in Florida. Our home sat on a lot facing the large lake which...
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    How to train a dog to get along with chickens OR can it be done?

    Wow, these are some incredible training tips and techniques. nzpouter, I can definitely see that in my dog's case it IS the thrill of the chase. She could still hurt a chicken and must NOT chase, but I think it's puppy fun to her. Mountain Man Jim, thank you so much for your training lesson...
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    How to train a dog to get along with chickens OR can it be done?

    Hello, I ready all the great posts related to harleyjo's question about what kind of dog and do they get along with chickens. So many people wrote in that their dogs do fine with the chickens. Now I very interested how you train a dog be good with chickens. We have a German Shepherd puppy...
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    Question about chickens and dogs

    Thank you all for your comments. Maybe I'll see what the local shelter has for adoption keeping in mind the great suggestions you provided. After I made my post, I discovered another post with same type question. Now, I'll try to learn how to search for relatted posts. Thanks again. Farmer Jane
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    Question about chickens and dogs

    Hello, we are new farmers and have chickens and goats. The chickens are free ranging and have grown into nice laying hens with a good rooster to watch over them. We would like to get a dog and are interested in a german shephard puppy. However, we don't know if a dog can be trained to get...
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