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    Compost and hens

    I am new to chickens but my housemate, a real earth mother type who's had chickens in the past, does take a pretty easy going 'chickens have been doing their thing for thousands of years' attitude. These chickens are my 'project' but she's enjoying them quite a bit, too. So, our chicken pen is...
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    New member from Oregon!

    Hi Warsawgirl :frow I had to look up ISO and am still not sure exactly what that is (several definitions including 'in search of') But, like I said...pretty new to the chicken world. I think one of the posts mentioned Rhode Island Red being in the mix and I've been thinking that that is...
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    New member from Oregon!

    Thank you, Redsox, for your concern about the chicken wire. I think we put that in the upper part around pen but I literally sewed the wire to the other fence material in every place there was a gap and in some cases did two rows of seams (with wire) I've been checking every day to see if...
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    New member from Oregon!

    I finally joined! I just got started in the backyard chicken thing a few months ago. My girls are (pretty sure they're all hens) 2 red sexlinks named Penny and Ginger, 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes named Sylvia and Lacey and 2 Norwegian Jaerhons named Astrid and Hilda. My housemate cautioned me...
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