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    Making life easier...?

    Yes, I plan to have only 50 birds come winter... I always said I wouldn't butcher them, but chicken math added up and I plan to take them to auction this fall.
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    Making life easier...?

    Thank you so much for that insight! I think this fall (my husbands a farmer and right now is NOT the time to be asking for assistance in the coop ha!) maybe I can get hubby to take the floors out of the coop for the DLM. Until then, perhaps I should go back to what I was doing in the winter-...
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    Making life easier...?

    How long do you think I could leave pine shavings on the floor for 100 birds? We did that this past winter when they were all staying in because of snow- we scooped out all the sand and added bags of pine shavings and just "fluffed them" every evening. Is this a practical approach or would we be...
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    Making life easier...?

    We have a coop that is about 20ft long by about 10 feet deep. Inside is all perches and nest boxes, and then the chickens have a covered run and are free range all day. Inside of our coop, we have a plywood floor, and about an inch of sand. Every morning I go out and use a scoop (homemade -...
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    Sand as litter?

    I just looked up that Justin Rhodes- man that guy has PASSION!
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    I found this site : https://www.in.gov/isdh/files/Farmers_Market_Guide_-_Animal_Products_jan_2013.pdf I am seriously hoping that this is as easy as it sounds. I'm not sure though. I will call the office on Monday. I have donated some this week, but today alone I got 51 eggs. How did chicken...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    Hey guys! Long time no chat! I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of how to sell eggs at a local farmers market. Like what do I type in google to get it all figured out? Once before I had the link, but I only had 12 chickens at the time, and then I didn't really have enough...
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    Broody hen hatching chick

    To keep the others out of the box. 2 of her 3 eggs hatched yesterday! Whoooohoooo!
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    Broody hen hatching chick

    I'm going thru my first set too! Except I have 4 broodys!! My first 3 eggs under one hen should hatch tomorrow Opinions on putting a "curtain" in front of the box the broody is in?
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    Advice needed... We have a coop big enough for maybe 45-50 chickens to sleep (roost wise, we have 52 feet of perches). We had 12 chickens inside the coop, and then in the run we had a 10ft by 10ft dog kennel with perches inside (and covered) to integrate 21 "teenage" chicks. They are now 15...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    I think I might go to the bank tomorrow and talk to a friend that is a loan officer there. I guess I probably need title work and all of that jazz. That's a bummer for a ½ acre lot.... oh well. I'd rather do it right :)
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    Hello, I was wondering if anyone could tell me what to do next.... Our neighbor owns 3 different lots, and one of them joins ours. We would like to buy that joining lot. We have agreed on a purchase price, and I plan to pay him cash (no loan). Whats the next step? Do I HAVE to get a lawyer...
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    Buying additional property..

    Hello, I was wondering if anyone could tell me what to do next.... Our neighbor owns 3 different lots, and one of them joins ours. We would like to buy that joining lot. We have agreed on a purchase price, and I plan to pay him cash (no loan). Whats the next step? Do I HAVE to get a lawyer...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    Not to bash meyer... we ordered 15 pullet chicks from them in December and of those 15: 5 are males 1 had a displaced ligament and will have to be put down 3 had curled toes and so far haven't been able to perch. Not sure if that makes your decision any easier or not... ETA: spelling errors
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    It's beginning to feel a lot like spring here in Southern IN. We are supposed to get close to 70 tomorrow and in the 70s on Monday. In observance of that... I took a half day . DH wanted to know why I needed to do that when we were about to have a whole summer ahead of us. He just doesn't...
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