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Originally Posted by Fishpart
Into it probably 5 years now. Started with 24, added 15 two years later hatched a few, down to 6 now all due to natural causes. Most were lost by demonstrating that "everyone loves chicken" including , hawks, foxes, coyotes, fisher cats.... They slow down in the winter, but I am getting 3 or 4 eggs a day. Now that I have so few, they can go a week at a time between topping up feed and water, just need to get eggs.
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i installed a red light-bulb in the coop overhead to lengthen the day
very next day..........got our
first egg