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  1. jhoff310

    Double shell....NOT double yolk

    One of my red sex links recently surprised me. She laid an egg, as I was washing it I was shocked to discover a full egg inside of the brown shell. The shocker was the egg inside was White. I do have white leghorns. There wasn't any yolk between the 2 shells, just a brown shell covering the...
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    advice/opinion please

    i have a 9month old sex link hen that is losing some feathers on her head. Her comb looks smaller than normal and has very fine white spots on it. she is acting fine and eating normal wings arent droopy still active. I half suspect shes molting, but in January in Ohio...looking for some insight...
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    Heat and chickens - how to manage?

    The heat was one of the factors I took into consideration when building my coop a few months back. My house and unattached garage face east. I built the coop on the north side of my garage 2' off the ground. The area under the coop is open to the flock and they spend a fair amount of the HOT day...
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    Bowling Green Ohio...is kicking the idea around

    The City of Bowling Green Ohio is kicking around the idea of allowing 5 chickens per home...I didnt attend the metting but here is the article about it...I think it seems fair http://www.sent-trib.com/front-page/bg-plan-hatched-to-allow-backyard-chickens Jeff
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    Slippery Slope Perrysburg OHIO

    here is the ord in its entireity http://www.conwaygreene.com/Perrysburg/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-hit-h.htm&2.0 This is their restricted animals ordinance, passed in 2009 Jeff
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    Slippery Slope Perrysburg OHIO

    I know of several homes in town who have chickens. Some are in the lower income parts some town, some are in the "upper crust" parts of town. The city administration knows of a few as well. I recently spoke with our animal control officer before I took the chicken plunge, he told me " read the...
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    Comment by 'jhoff310' in article '09northernchicks Chicken Coop'

    Looks great, your girls look very happy
  8. jhoff310

    Hello from Ohio

    thank you all for the warm welcome, I look forward to learning alot from the veteran chicken farmers on here. Jeff/Kristen
  9. jhoff310

    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    my wife and i took up frugal living a few years back when we were up to our eyeballs in debt. We took up canning, gardening, wood heat, second hand stores, creative recycling <garbage picking> learned how to fix just about everything instead of tossing and buying new. Now we are almost...
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    hello from the toledo area, glad to be part of the flock....I didnt go thru all the pages to see how many toledo area neighbors I have but Im sure there are a few. Jeff/ Kristen
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    Hello from Ohio

    Hello my name is Jeff and my wifes name is Kristen. We are in the Toledo Ohio area. We have been interested in backyard chickens for quite sometime. We have been a lurker on here for a few months, and enjoy the posts and the wealth of information. We do not have any chcickens yet, that will...
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