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    2 Week Old ISA Brown Chicks Update!

    Where did you get your ISA Brown chicks?
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    Installed our timed lighting system yesterday!

    Lets have an update from this experience. I have had my chickens on timed light from the very beginning all the way through summer and this last winter they started molting and stopped laying. It has now been 3 months and they are still not laying??? I have looked all over those birds for a...
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    can a broody hen raise chicks in main coop?

    I installed a dog pen inside my coop to raise chicks. Putting a broody hen in with some new chicks and letting her raise them takes all the work out of it and she continues to protect them as they move into the flock.
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    Sponsored Post How to: Introduce new birds to your flock

    This week I have been introducing 6 month old Cream Legbars to my Black Copper Maran flock. The Coop is spacious and I have brooder/run for raising chicks inside the coop. This has allowed the chicks and hens to become very familiar with each other over the past 6 months. However they are still...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    was it a real egg, sometimes in the egg reproduction process something else happens and the result is an egg look alike.
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    Chalky substance on egg

    Ok, My BCM eggs are form a new flock and most of the eggs are shinny and a dark chocolate color. However, a few are chalky and lighter in color. The chickens have only been laying for a couple months so this may be a new hen issue…that will become clearer as time goes by.
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    Do hens stop laying during Winter?

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    Do hens stop laying during Winter?

    In discussing lighting with my vet friend he said that the birds need the gradual sunset to find their roost. He recommended that I set the light to come on early an then let them roost by the setting sun. I found other posts that supported the same idea…I love your program, you have put a lot...
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    Do hens stop laying during Winter?

    I just started with chickens this summer. I have two brothers that have kept chickens for years and I have a close vet friend who raises all kinds of birds. Together the vet friend and I purchased BCM eggs and he hatched them in is incubator. I followed his guidance in the design and...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I have now found 2 more eggs and both were dark brown, I guess she has her spray paint working now! That is one chicken, soon there will be 10 more laying!
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I just discovered the very first egg of my new flock of Black Copper Marans. It was a very light brown which is disheartening due to these birds are from a noted Black Copper Maran breeder. I wonder if their eggs will become darker as the chicken matures… These birds were hatched on June the...
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