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    When do hens typically stop laying each year?

    Five hens are just over two years and 10 that were last spring's. In the other house are 5 hens just over a year. In the house with 15 they have all stopped laying in the last two weeks. My bantams in the little coop never hardly skip a day. I sort of thought they stopped laying in February, am...
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    Feeding your garden

    So what do all you people who are trying to live more natrually feed your garden? If you are using chicken manure/ bedding, how long do you let it age before you use it?
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    Bees or not to bees

    I am seriously considering adding a bee hive to our property. I have no doubt I have a good place for it but I am wondering about the chickens. Will the bees bother the chickens? will the chickens eat all the bees? I just read an article about guinea hens that said they are known to stand right...
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    hornet nests in the compost pile

    what can we do to get rid of these mean things? I don't want to use a lot of chemicals in the compost, kind of defeats the purpose. My husband already did take a whack at them with hornet spray at night one time. I guess it must be a pretty big next of them.
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    What breed does this sound like to you.

    We got a few bantams this spring at the Tractor Supply Store. One was the littlest and faster chick ever. my husband named her flash. now here we are 5 months later and she looks like a gray pigeon. she is kind of full breasted, more "womanly" breasted than any we ever had before. still smaller...
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    My Beautiful Chickens

    Did you ever go to a Cub Scout Pack Meeting? Or haveyou been to a special concenrt at your kid's school? Did you notice how none of those other kids even came closeto the beautiy or talent your kids have? We went to the county fair on my birthday (really- that is what I wanted to do for my...
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    Organic Weed killer

    I was given this recipe for an Organic weed killer. My husband has a nursery so we need to keep weeds down, but my chickens run the area every day so I don't want a lot of poisons around. I tried this on the weeds along the walkway and honestly, they were all brown and crispy the next morning...
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    my bantam chickens (5 months) don't like their feed

    my bantams don't like the pellet feed we are giving all my chickens. we put a little corn in with it and they only like the corn. What tricks do you all try? I am wondering if we would buy the more powdered form and add wter to it to make a mash if they would eat better? they love to be free...
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    My chickens won't play nice!

    I need help from everyone. My Rhode Island reds won't allow the three Americaunas into the henhouse. They let after a few days the Wyandottes in this spring- but there were 5 of them. There are 3 Americaunas, 5 days now. The poor little things won't get down off the roosts- they are too afraid...
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    Needing Advice for My Birdies' Mobile Home

    My husband built, as a labor of love, for me a beautiful little coop last fall. it is 4x8 feet. He made nest boxes on the back t hat you can open from the outside. Two windows on the front that he even helped my put flower boxes on. And there is a pen on the back. The whole thing is built to be...
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    Are Bees for us?

    My husband has a nursery at our home. I have a small flock of chickens. Retirement is about 8-10 years down the road for me. When my kids were young we had a huge garden, goats, chickens, rabbits, a beef or two, ddn't buy much for the table that we didn't grow. Wll we haven't done that in a...
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    Will the real Pam lease stand up?

    We had a family party for my son's 38th birthday last Sunday. My kids and all the 7 grandkids were there as well as my parents. My mother has always been anti- bird. I remember walking in downtown Erie as a kid, my brother would chase the pigeons and my mom would about pass out. No different...
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    What breeds are your guesses?

    We got 6 little Bantam chicks from the tractor supply store this spring. Our silkie hatched them and a Rhode Island Red and A Comet at the same time. If you were to guess breeds, what would you say are the most likely to get from a store like tractor supply?
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    New Proposed postal rate increase to mail chicks

    I have just been contacted by the hatchery I ordered my little peeps from this year. Our government has in the works a plan to increase the cost of mailing "live Animals", for me this means my chicks for an additional $9 to $11.50 a box! They sent me a sample letter and an email/postal address...
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    Little Bantam babies

    We got some Bantam Chicks at the Tractor Store. One of each of a few varieties. One little guy is of course black/brown and yellow, no difinitive pattern. But he is abut 1/2 the size of the other bantams and FAST!! What kind would you guess him to be? Kind of like adopting a child, you don't...
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