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    First egg, huzzah!

    Our Buff Orpington--approx 24 weeks old--laid her first egg on Tuesday! A first for us, too. What a drama queen she was about it! Running around all morning going in and out of bushes, buck-buck-ing, and generally acting agitated. I thought something was wrong. Finally she settled near the...
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    Cooper's Hawk attack

    Just a cautionary tale; there are more hazards than I realized. We have 3 7-week old chicks. To get them used to living outdoors, we have taken advantage of warm afternoons to put them on the lawn, contained in a simple pen. The top is plastic chicken/utility mesh. Since our neighbors with...
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    litter, wire floor, what do you do?

    For our backyard, free-range-ish, flock (i.e., 2 or 3 hens), we have purchased the very basic Chick-N-Hutch. The one that seems to be available everywhere so you likely have seen it. It has a hardware cloth floor with a slide-out catch-tray underneath. It is clear that this design intends...
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    Do pullets ever crow?

    Hi, am am a new backyard chicken owner. I have 3 chicks that are about seven weeks old. One is a Red Ameraucana (or EE). Yesterday, and today (s)he did a really impressive cock-a-doodle-do when I took her out of the pen. She even stretched up and looked just like a cartoon rooster. She (or...
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