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    All the hens took Mother's Day off

    I have eight hens, and for most of the last week I've been getting 6 or 7 eggs per day. On Mother's Day, not a single egg. Did they know it was Mother's Day, or perhaps it being Sunday, decided it was a day of rest?
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    Not laying in the nesting boxes

    I'm so excited! I got my first egg today, but it was on the ground under the ramp and not in the nesting boxes. Should I be too concerned?
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    Breed Identification

    What breed is this please?
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    Building the chicken tractor as inexpensively as possible.

    Most of the materials for my chicken tractor were laying around taking up space anyway, so when I decided to build one, I scavenged as much material as possible for free. For the frame, I picked up some store shelving (1" square tubular steel) from a store that was going out of business, and...
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    Mixed Flock Questions

    I have three Buff Orpingtons, two Rhode Island Reds, and what I think is an Appenzeller Spitzhauben. How will I know which hens are producing? I'm not sitting there watching them lay eggs.
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    Complete Nube with laying hens

    My wife picked up our first hens yesterday, and stopped by the feed store where they sold her scratch (a mixture of corn and something else) Is this what they eat all the time? I put it in their feeder, but I remember as a kid, my grandmother just scattered it on the ground. I thought that...
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