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  1. Chicken Heir

    What am I doing right?

    This is my first winter with hens. They started laying in the late fall, and haven't let up. I do not give them any more hours of artificial light, yet my brown egg layers lay every day, and my single white layer lays about every other to every three days. I decided not to give them any more...
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    Why hatch over getting chicks?

    Just curious what the advantage to hatching in an incubator is over buying chicks. Seems like the eggs are more expensive than chicks, including sexed chicks, and the success rate of chicks arriving well seems greater than hatch rates. Again, just curious. I still plan on getting some eggs and...
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    "Cooping" chickens in new coop

    When you lock up a new flock in a coop to condition them to come back there to roost, is it okay to let them have access to an attached run too or do they need to be locked inside the coop itself? Thanks in advance.
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    Is my quarantine blown?

    Well, I've had a single chicken for a little over a month now. About a week and a half ago I picked up another 6 hens to keep her company. I quarantined the new flock about 200 feet from the main coop. Today, while free ranging, the original hen found the pen the new birds are in! She always...
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    Small Scale Poultry Housing Overview and Plans

    I'm new here, so forgive me if this has been posted here before. It's a link to an article from the Virginia Cooperative Center on small-scale poultry housing. Lots of good information. Scroll down to the bottom to see the plan for an 8X8 coop. http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/2902/2902-1092/2902-1092.pdf
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    New guy--question about adding birds

    Hello everyone...great site! Been looking around for a few days and found more answers than I had questions. A little background: A few weeks ago, I "inherited" a single chicken from a neighbor whose father passed away (hence my screen name!). His father had a farm next door to me, and had a...
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