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    Why you ladies no lay eggs?

    My bad. guess they have another 3 to 6 weeks. bummer! Thought it was 10 or 15 weeks. bad info i had! Thanks for all the replies. I need to just be patient.
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    Why you ladies no lay eggs?

    howdy folks. I'm at my wits ends here. We have invested well over 1000 dollars in these chickens, not to mention the hours upon hours of upkeep, for zilch. The chicks, that are now full grown hens, arrived in Early April. Now its August, and still no eggs. Could they be duds? What could...
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    tree chickens

    OK. Thank you! What I will do then is block off the top three boxes, there are 6 total, three in a row, two high. They used to sleep on TOP of the boxes, but we wired that off, which I think led to the tree roosting now that I think of it. I will then make sure the roosts are higher than...
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    tree chickens

    We have three "tree" chickens. Three hens, 2 hamburgs, 1 welsummer, than insist on sleeping in the maple tree that is in there run. I'm concerned about a night time owl or coon attack. Any ideas on how to stop this and make them go into the coop? Speaking of strange behavior, we've got a...
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    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    I did not have any firearms at the time of this incident. I do have a few now though. I did borrow the neighbors 10/22 after losing the last few chickens, but she was too fast, and I'm in a neighborhood, so I did not want to shoot it unless I was sure it would be safe to do so and the shot...
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    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    Whilst working in the yard one spring afternoon, I noticed a handful of our "free range" chickens were in the neighbors yard. I also noticed a small dog with a really long, puffy tail running around. Once my brain caught up with my eyes, I realized i was looking at a fox. I immediately gave...
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    hello from VT

    Hello. Finalled joined BYC. have enjoyed all the information, and thought I would finally join. My girlfriend and I have a small flock of various chickens. Still not sure on some of them, I may ask for help identifying some of them as we ordered a "variety" from MMM. I also have 5 mallard...
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