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04-15-2016, 12:08 PM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
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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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12-13-2016, 03:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Quote:
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 |
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12-13-2016, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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My sister's hens, when they started laying, would lay 1 a day.
Some every other day, but that will slow down during the winter.
She even got a double yolk egg that was almost as big as a goose egg. Must have really hurt popping that thing out!
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