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So I am about as green as it gets...but one thing among others is giving me trouble. Cross breeding verse pure bred. Again I am new to this but using the example of cattle breeding programs, terminal sires and improving heritage traits...why do the same "factors" not seem to apply to chickens...

So we have a garden…that’s the strange basis of all this. And what my wife was thinking was she wants some chickens and in looking around we’ve come across the Balfour method of keeping them. The idea basically is you rotate the chickens around fixed runs and they fertilize as they eat and it...

So I've read a lot...too much actually...and apparently have chicken-itis of the brain. In designing my coop for 8 when it comes to roosting I know it’s 2-feet from the ground…top rung higher than the nesting boxes…18” from the wall. And if you do a ladder style 12” over and up works plus you...