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I am back after a year without hens. It happened slowly, first just one in a month. I had forty chickens so I did not notice too much. Then I found I was down ten chickens and I began to really worry. My chickens were free range and had five acres to wander about, but alway came home in time...

That's why I moved to Florida. Just have to watch out for the snakes and alligators. HAHA

They don't need a ladder. They have wings. Mine fly up to the roosts which are about 4 1/2 feet above the floor.

I have been wasting tons of eggs. Thank you for this article. I usually discard any extra eggs after about two weeks but now I know I can keep them refrigerated till my usual customer who buys about ten dozen comes to visit. I have twenty chickens who give me about a dozen a day so sometimes...

Thanks I live in Florida so we had a couple weeks of 100 + temperatures. I will put my eggs in the refrigerator as soon as I collect them now and tell my customer to refrigerate theirs. I only collect from nest boxes and I do that twice a day. It is 77 degrees in my house all the time...

I have been selling my surplus eggs. A customer sent me a picture of an egg whose shell she broke open to fry up and the yolk was broken and watery. She said it was several eggs in that particular dozen (which means they came from different chickens as I sell eggs no more than 2 days old)...

Bunnell here. I have 40 chickens is a 48'x48' run who escape and free range at least once a day.

My husband and I moved to five acres and cleared the land and built a house. It is still a work in progress after four years. We just finished building the front porch. We had chickens at our previous suburban home but they brought out the farmer in me so we moved to create a farm. I had...

I am Gail. I started three years ago with six chickens in my backyard. I fell in love with them. So much so we bought five acres just outside town and built a bigger coop. The following spring we got six more hens. We have gradually been clearing land for them to spread out. Our local feed...

I have a hen who disappeared for three weeks and came back with ten babies. All are healthy. She is a great mother. I have them in a separate coop and run. When should I put her back in the general population while keeping her chicks safe until they are big enough

I guess I am lucky. My first rooster is a good one. He stands around the hens on high alert like a secret service agent. He does not like me but respects me ever since I had a knee jerk reaction to his nip at my shoe with a little kick that sent him flying. A second batch of baby hens I bought...

I guess I am lucky. My first rooster is a good one. He stands around the hens on high alert like a secret service agent. He does not like me but respects me ever since I had a knee jerk reaction to his nip at my shoe with a little kick that sent him flying. A second batch of baby hens I bought...

I guess I am lucky. My first rooster is a good one. He stands around the hens on high alert like a secret service agent. He does not like me but respects me ever since I had a knee jerk reaction to his nip at my shoe with a little kick that sent him flying. A second batch of baby hens I bought...

I saw a show on tv that said even wing feathers were one sex and uneven were the other. I just can't remember which was which. One of my black sexlink mommas disappeared for a couple of weeks and came home with ten baby chicks a couple of days old. They range from purely black to purely very...

Thank you. That was very helpfulness

I have just been given a rooster. I have eleven hens and sell their eggs. I have to contend now with the possibility of fertile eggs. My chickens are all free range so they mingle freely but I have not yet let the rooster out of his run. I wouldn't mind if a hen decides to hatch her eggs and...