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    Hen with pips

    A few weeks ago, I thought I was missing a hen. She had been conspicuously absent for over a week. I moved a bale of straw to clean the coop and found her sitting on a clutch of 13 eggs. My rooster is a nice looking guy, but doesn’t get the job done with all of the flock. Some he likes...
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    Birds and bees?

    My chicken run is 50’ X 50’ of tall fence. I have half a dozen dwarf apple trees in that space as well as the coop. I have a separate “garden” that is the same size with the same 8’ tall fence. The deer are a pestilence here and putting one in the freezer each fall does nothing to keep them...
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    Free ranging

    My flock is currently 9 hens and a roo. I also have 14 eggs in the incubator. They have a 12’ X 8’ coop with six nesting boxes. The run is 50’ X 50’, fenced. I have about six acres. Lately, they have decided that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence (it really is, spring has...
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    Integration problems

    Long time reader, first post. Sorry the length is “War and Peace” like, but having read so many threads, I figured I’d answer as many of the commonly asked questions as I could up front. My coop is 7’ by 4’ elevated with an enclosed run beneath that is open for the birds to “free range” in a...
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