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Hi!

I have just joined BYC.

Let me introduce myself.
I left the big city of São Paulo 3 years ago, and since then I am raising my kids at the fields in Mantiqueira Mountains.
I have been raising chickens for 1 year. I breed the chickens for eggs and... for fun. I just love feeding, watching them, talking to them. I am also a dog and cat alternative medicine vet, but not working now because my youngest is a small baby.

I started with 5 hens and a rooster. One year later, I have more than 30 chickens with different ages.
That´s because they have been laying in the bushes around, and not at the nests we provide... so we can´t find the eggs, and they multiply... so cute.

They have been bred 100% free range until recently, when we built a coop and run, where most of them are kept closed for some hours of the day. I don´t like seeing them closed, they do not seem to be happy, because, although is a large run (10 m x 5 m), they are a kind of local breed that is kept free all the time (they are used to sleep at the tree branches). But I´ve been told that closing them until past noon is the only way to get eggs.

Hope to learn with you folks.

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Clarissa
 
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from Oregon, USA!! Glad to have you!
 
Welcome to BYC hope your girls will learn to lay eggs in their nest boxes. Have you tried putting a fake (plastic??)egg or golf ball in each nest so they know where eggs should go?
 
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Welcome to BYC!

You will still get eggs if you let them out, but they may not lay in the nest boxes. You need to put some fake eggs in your nest boxes to help train them to use the boxes. That way they will return to the coop to lay and be able to enjoy their freedom all day.

Good luck with your flock and welcome to ours!
 
Good hint, I will try the fake eggs.

Thought their male showed the girls where they should lay.
I´ve seen once the rooster performing some strange noise and behavior around a hen, just below us (in the basement), then, the next day, she started to lay there.

Thanks to everyone.
 
Claris said:
Hi!

I have just joined BYC.

Let me introduce myself.
I left the big city of São Paulo 3 years ago, and since then I am raising my kids at the fields in Mantiqueira Mountains.
I have been raising chickens for 1 year. I breed the chickens for eggs and... for fun. I just love feeding, watching them, talking to them. I am also a dog and cat alternative medicine vet, but not working now because my youngest is a small baby.

I started with 5 hens and a rooster. One year later, I have more than 30 chickens with different ages.
That´s because they have been laying in the bushes around, and not at the nests we provide... so we can´t find the eggs, and they multiply... so cute.

They have been bred 100% free range until recently, when we built a coop and run, where most of them are kept closed for some hours of the day. I don´t like seeing them closed, they do not seem to be happy, because, although is a large run (10 m x 5 m), they are a kind of local breed that is kept free all the time (they are used to sleep at the tree branches). But I´ve been told that closing them until past noon is the only way to get eggs.

Hope to learn with you folks.

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Clarissa
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That is the sure way to be able to find your egg's
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once you have 20 post you will be able to use all the BYC features and getting 20 post is as easy as saying hello to 20 new comers like your self .....
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