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    Mice and the Best Way to Deal With Them

    Everyone is talking about mice but from the size of the droppings I found in the feeder I think we have rats. Will the bucket of death work for these larger critters?
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    Roosting and Laying Locations

    We built a kind of vertical coop at one end of an 8 x 8 ft fenced yard. The back is solid plywood about 5 ft high with 18" sides, top, and bottom. The nest boxes are at the top with a ladder/ramp up to them and the roost is right below the nest boxes. We covered the whole front with a tarp...
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    First timers have broody hen. Please anwer these questions!

    Being broody is great if you want to hatch chicks, but we don't have a roo and I really don't want any more chickens. Our 5 girls are plenty. So what do I do about my poor hen who has been hanging out in the nest box for a couple of weeks now. I shoo her out a couple of times a day so she...
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    First time w/ broody hen

    Three MONTHS??? One of my 5 hens has been broody for about a week now. We don't have a rooster so she isn't going to hatch anything. We been picking her up and tossing her out of the nest box and gathering the eggs. Then she at least is out for a little while to eat and get some air, but an...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    We have just started getting 5 eggs a day from our 5 funny girls and the cool thing is that each egg is a different color. We have 2 hens that are almost identical Easter Eggers but one is laying green eggs and the other's eggs are a pretty pinky beige color.
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    Free Range shelters?

    I've been keeping mine in their pen in the morning until they lay and then letting them out in the yard for the rest of the day. If I don't come get them as it's getting dark they just go into their coop on their own. They have just started laying and I'm a little concerned that there are eggs...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    [/img] Yeah! We finally got an egg! And tasty it was. Our girls are 5 1/2 months old and we thought maybe we'd have to wait until spring but one of them - don't know which one of the 5 - is finally earning her keep. Very exciting!
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