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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I am learning very quickly about chickens. I started out fulfilling my dream to have backyard chickens but I admit I was a basic "know nothing" when I began assembling my coop and run. It was almost a year before I got my first birds. Thankfully I had 2 friends, long-time chicken keepers, to...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    The farmer who sells chicks (and takes back roosters!) told me she has never heard of a chicken that did not eventually lay. Each hen has her own internal clock for reaching puberty just like people have. She chides me to be patient and I will be rewarded. My Ameraucana is a cross. She was...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I, too, wonder about the internal clocks of chickens. I have a pullet born last May (2013.) She is Ameraucana crossed with Copper Marans (or so the farmer believes.) Here in southern New Jersey she started laying on January 13th 2014. I wonder if the start and frequency of laying has...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Ah, I did know that it is daylight hours that affects egg laying. Also, molt and broodiness. My cochin cross went broody last spring then had a stress molt while raising chicks then her normal molt in the fall. She hadn't laid in nearly a year. I expect her to go broody again this spring...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Four of my 5 hens will be 2 years old in April/May. After a winter lay-off because the weather was brutal, I don't heat my coop and I do not have lights in my tiny coop, my 5 hens are back to laying. This year the eggs are 2.2 ounces (they were 1.9 ounces consistently last year.) Each hen is...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest: QUARTER MILLION BYC Members

    03/15/2014 13:00 That's the Ides of March at 1 PM
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