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My NH reds are laying eggs in my Pete moss bedding instead of the wood chip nesting boxes. Any ideas?? They layed for weeks in NB's but now in a single corner in the bedding.

In reading it says separate your cockrels from the pullets when they are 8 weeks old. When do you reintroduce the grown roosters to the flock? Can you have more than one rooster or do you cull any extra ones so you only have one?

How do I bail out of a particular subscription of posts?

What are u guys using for bedding? What is cheap and plentifull and safe? Thanks

live in mid michigan building 6X8' coop. What do you reccommend for foundation? I will have a plywood floor. 1 dig post holes and 4X4 posts? 2 place on 4X4 runners and lay it on ground? 3 on cement piers sitting on the ground and rim joints sitting on the piers? 4 on 4X4 posts 1foot long just...

I am thinking of starting a new flock w chicks. I may start with some buff orpingtons, new Hampshire reds and Sussex or wyandottes. If I have a mixed flock of maybe 10 or 15 pullets and want one rooster, which breed should I use for my rooster? I do plan on allowing some brooding if possible.

just starting a flock and asking if I have a rooster do I need to keep it separate at night from the hens in the coop? how about if a hen is brooding eggs I want to hatch do I need to keep her separate as well? Thanks for all the sage advice on this site. sagicraw