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  1. emalin

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Thanks Friday. We are doing the same thing with our coop--adding a section. We can only free range when we're outside to supervise because of the predator situation here, so they will need to be happy in their pen. I will look into the PDZ. Sounds like a great, low maintenance, low waste option.
  2. emalin

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Hi, I have a pretty basic question that may have been covered already, but I can't comb through all the pages of this thread or find anything on a search. I would like to use the deep litter method in my coop--it is working well in the brooder so far. However the coop will be a raised box (The...
  3. emalin

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    We're going to start out with 5 and add a few every year or two. I guess you're right that for a while we'll be overflowing with eggs. I'm sure we'll find takers for the extras. . . ;) And I'll just have to keep expanding my garden and orchard to have a place for the poo . . . good...
  4. emalin

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Thank you so much for all of these replies! I never dreamed I would get to talk to so many experienced people. I've learned so much (outside of what I read on the net and in books) already. Our family follows a nutrieint-dense/Weston A Price-type diet and I'm an herbalist, so I'm familiar with a...
  5. emalin

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Hi, I'm new to raising chickens and BYC. We are starting our flock this spring. I have a million questions, and hope to work my way through this thread gathering answers. That said, I hope you don't mind one round of newbie questions. Right now, I'm concerned with raising chicks naturally. Is it...
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