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  1. nursrose3

    how does 3 turn into 16?

    I totally understand. When we first decided to try having chickens, we were going to start with 6. Yes that's what I said- 1,2,3,4,5,6...only six. Then we needed something from the feed store and they had chicks for sale and they were soooooo cute... WHY DO THEY HAVE TO BE SO STINKIN CUTE...
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    Comment by 'nursrose3' in article 'Composting With Chickens'

    Update on the pile we started: This is a fantastic idea for the chicken pen! you should see the pile my family and I started. It is worked down so well I am almost in disbelief. And my chicken crew is as happy as I have seen. In a very long time. Every time I go to the pen there has to be at...
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    Comment by 'nursrose3' in article 'Composting With Chickens'

    We started our chicken pen compost pile on Sunday. We didn't have much to put in it so my husband cut down a couple of boards to contain it in one corner for now. It can be expanded as needed. To entice the crew to begin scratching I had my grandson grab a half bucket of scratch grains and mixed...
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    Need some hatching buddies - Hatching May 24-28

    Jumping in on this thread. This has been quite a hatching season. My husband believe that I have finally lost my mind over my chickens I have one RIR rooster who is in charge of 30 beautiful girls (most RIR, 6 Red stars, 3 Blue americaunas, 2 buff orpingtons, 1 white leghorn). We want to...
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    hatching rate

    Great work! Try to make your self some notes on how you handled the Incubation from start to finish. I am on my 4th incubation and making notes as I go. The first time I was given some eggs and didn't know their handling before they reached me. Even with very careful incubation, I only had...
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    Water Belly or Ovarian Cyst? AND Internal Layer? GRAPHIC PICS

    I was a nurse for 10 years (for humans) and have a couple of opinions on what happened with you chicken. What you found looks much like an very large ovarian cyst. They are absolutely no fun to deal with in humans, let alone chickens. when they grow big enough and no room is left it start...
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    Confused.......how can you afford to feed your chickens

    I does get expensive at times. My husband and I have a flock of 37. 34 Beautiful ladies (Red stars and Rhode Island Reds) and 3 (most of the time) gentlemen. We were buying chicken feed from a retail store, but like you we felt the continuously rising pricing wasnt going to work. We were...
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