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    Going on 2 weeks with low egg production

    We have 12 adult hens, a bit over a year old, all of who were laying regularly 2 weeks ago. 1 has hatched out chicks, 2 maybe going broody, but that still leaves 9 who should be laying and for the past 2 weeks we've only gotten 3ish eggs a day. They all look and act healthy, we can find no...
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    How long to wait for an egg to hatch?

    so, bit of a complicated situation. We got our chicks in March 2020. We raised chickens when I was a kid, but that was 15-20 years ago, and they were game chickens, not anything we were super concerned about. So we just let nature do its thing. Well we finally moved to someplace with land, and...
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    Integrating different aged chicks?

    We have 12 2-3 week old chick in a brooder and are finishing up the coop. We've always preferred rhode island red, but this is our first time raising chickens in Louisiana and there were no rir at any of the feed stores. So we got Americana and cuckoo marans at the suggestion of the worker...
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    Cleaned up our set up

    So we converted the tortoise table into a brooder for our chicks. We had coco fiber in it, as that's what we used for the totoise. Hes been moved to his outside pen. We planned to use the kitty litter scoop to clean up the poop but chick poop is too small and falls through the scoop. Also the...
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    Building our coop

    Building our coop next to the shed. Hoping to get it done this weekend.
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    ISO Silkies in southern louisisana

    I'm looking to buy a few silkies. We only want 2 or 3, and places to order them from have limits, the lowest I've found is 5. We're in st charles parish louisisana, willing to travel about an hour or so. Our hens are dual purpose, and I would like a few just for pets for thebkids and I. Thanks
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    Howdy from southern Louisisana

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Kinda. I grew up with chickens, actually on a chicken farm. BUt these are my first as an an adult. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 12 chicks. (3) What breeds do you have? 6 americana and 6 cuckoo marans. (4) What...
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