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    breeding to sustain own flock

    We have 19 hens and 2 roosters and are wanting to hatch our own eggs to keep the flock going without buying new chicks from other sources. Do we need to be concerned with our roosters mating with their daughters or brothers and sisters mating? I have read about spiral breeding and line breeding...
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    Cleaning poop boards

    I was just wondering how clean do we need to keep our poop boards? We have 3 16"x8' melamine (malmac) boards that we scrape everyday. (The inherited the coop - 8'x8', off the ground - and we have to climb into it to clean it. We needed light weight boards that we could easily pull out without...
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    Bumblefoot, what do I do now?

    Looking for advice for bumblefoot. This is the first time we have had to deal with it. We soaked our hen's foot for a couple days and today we got the plug/corn/callus out. Underneath was a big hole. Is that normal? It didn't bleed. There is still some yellow stuff in the hole. Are we supposed...
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