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I’m feeling a little crazy and desperate. I wanted to get a better breed for one main purpose: I want them to set on their eggs. Is that too much to ask of a chicken?   ??? Secondly: for laying hens. Since I could only get mixed sexes that means that I have both male and [...]

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No more lawn mowing the clippings to feed to them. It would have been easier if I had a lawn bagger. At least I didn’t have to use a scythe like Hubby suggested. The pieces would have been too big anyway I told him. It’s was also getting to be a chore to keep the [...]

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I spend a half hour every day picking alfalfa, clover and dandelions for the chicks. I’m wearing out my kitchen blender to chop it up.   They are now eating two full gallon pails of chopped greens per day along with 1 1/2 gallons of bagged feed. So their main diet right now is natural. [...]

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    The chicks were reading the newspaper this morning. They are really picked and up in wings over the latest Luka Rocco Magnotta murder suspect, figuring that  a foot should have been put down on this deal when it was obviously all over the internet before the police took action.”Cheep deal” they say. I assured them [...]

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  They’re eating, drinking, playing, running, sleeping…sorry I can’t help myself. There antics are so sweet. I started feeding them little pieces of green alfalfa, etc. You have to start them young.  The red heat lamp is what is making some of the shot reddish. >https://www.youtube.com/v/Wb7kZmFU8go?version=3&feature=player_detailpage”><param     

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I’m still waiting for the mail to arrive at our post office. I had the coop already for them this morning except that I went in to turn the heat lamp on. I’m always a little jittery about getting the temperature just right…30 to 32C. If they get too cold they will all get pneumonia [...]

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Oh ya! They are due to arrive tomorrow. It’s for sure that I’ll be all over them with a camera. Meanwhile I have to get the coop cleaned out. Check out the…ahem…artistically designed walls.  Good enough for a chicken I think. I had extra yellow and green paint. My first thought was to paint it [...]

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  Mad: I let the hen out that I had such hopes for. The eggs were cold for a whole day while she caroused around her room. She’d had enough and wanted out. I obliged her. It’s become obvious that from the number of eggs in the nest that she only lays one egg a week. [...]

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