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  1. JaneJohnReed

    Laying eggs on poop board

    Our five girls have been using their nests like clockwork. Now all of a sudden (for the last week) we are finding from 2-3 eggs laying in the poop board! How do we get them to stop? I put golf balls in the nests last night to re-train them but this morning there were 2 eggs in the poop board...
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    Our Chicken McMansion

    Our original coop was a pretty small chicken tractor. We lost three of our six chickens to the neighbor's dog so free ranging them became very rare. And, we really wanted to not only get our flock back up to six birds but actually expand it to perhaps twelve. It seemed the tractor was too small...
  3. JaneJohnReed

    How do you keep a clean run?

    We are new to a permanent run. In the past we had a tractor which we moved around to give them a fresh ground to graze on. Now we have turned a building into a coop with an attached large run. I'm thinking we need to use straw and hubby thinks we should use sand. Something needs to happen soon...
  4. JaneJohnReed

    Chicken molting

    Our chickens are 17 months old. We haven't seen any signs of molting. When should we expect them to lose their feathers and quit laying? They are Gold Stars. We live in Central Iowa.
  5. JaneJohnReed

    Hello!

    My wife and I got into laying hens in March of 2012. We had talked and talked about it without really deciding anything. Then one day I came home to 6 Gold Star chicks in a box in our laundry room. My wife had jumped in with both feet! I suppose to get me off the dime. As the chicks grew we...
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