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    DAT's Big Chicken Adventure

    I had a big chicken adventure last night - one of them was in the egg box, making odd noises. I thought maybe she was egg-bound, so I looked it up in my chicken book and read what to do. I swallowed hard, grabbed the bottle of mineral oil from the medicine chest, and headed out to the coop to...
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    Adding To My Flock

    Hi Everyone, I have 7 Rhode Island Reds, and they'll be 2 years old on June 12th. I don't want to wait until they all quit laying and get old and die, and then get new ones - I want to have continuous egg production. So I ordered 8 more, which will arrive in a couple of weeks. Once they're...
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    Hello From Southeastern Vermont!

    OK, I used the question template from the "sticky" post at the top of the list for this topic. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I got my first chickens in June of 2007, a year after leaving The Big City (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) to move to a falling-down...
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    Incubator - Required Or Optional

    Hi Everyone, If I get a rooster for my hens, do I need to buy an incubator, etc.? Can't I just let the hens do their thing? If I do it "the natural way", is there a way to have some hens on hatching duty and others still laying? Or is this a pain in the neck, and a good reason to...get an...
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    Inconsistent Egg Laying - Slacker Chickens?

    Hi Everyone, I have another beginner question. I have Rhode Island Reds, 7 of them. I understand that in the winter they lay fewer eggs than in the summer, but I have a light in the coop so that they get 14-15 hours of light every day. Over the last three months, I've noticed that some days...
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    Eggs are great, poop is not!

    OK, here's a question: how do people deal with eggs that have chicken poop on them? Just throw them out? I have a nest box that's big enough, and kept clean, and it's up off the floor. Nonetheless, about a third of the eggs have some bits of poop on them. Is there something wrong with the...
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