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We use Green Mountain organic feed for our animals. At our farm supply I think a 50lb bag of layer pellets is $26-$28. We only eat food grown without chemicals so it's important for us to have the eggs from our hens be organic as well, even if it costs more. We also grow some of our own food and...

Nice setup! Beautiful pullets too, buff orps are one of my favorite breeds cause of the good laying while also being very friendly. The only thing I would suggest is to put a solid roof if it doesn't have one, if there's just fencing and it rains allot the pen will get muddy and start smelling sour.

Luckily it's over 2 hours away from me or I would have to go... even tho the only ones on that list that I need are Sumatras. And I have 10 Sumatra eggs in the incubator. Still, in the 30 seconds before I realized how far away it was, my brain had completely rationalized getting more

Welcome! As you might have read about, chickens are ADDICTING, you will always need more once you get them so make the coop bigger than you think. I'm out in western ma.

Seems like a great place, too bad I live in western mass, the drive would be a little long. Plus I really don't need more chickens, even tho I have some coming in the mail and will be setting a couple dozen from my hens for the Easter hal. Also have 16 3 week old chix and 20 eggs due to hatch in...

Quote: That's very smart of them, get people addicted to chickens. Once the addiction sets in there is no turning back

About a week ago we were driving to Boston and there was a dead fisher cat on the side of the road, first time I've ever seen one. Never thought they would live so close to such a big city

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Probably, I've never seen ticks on my chickens but I know wild turkeys and grouse can get them. Ticks usually just stay on the face (on turkeys and grouse anyway), I imagine if a chicken got one the other chickens would just eat it . Ticks have never been a problem though for my chickens in...

That's weird, probably just cause she is young though. Here's an article on egg shell abnormalities https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/common-egg-quality-problems

I use pine shavings or hay... I do not recommend hay, it gets super compacted and almost impossible to clean out. Pine shavings are OK, but get stinky. Soon I will be trying the "deep litter method" to see how that works. So I don't really have any advise except don't use hay Oh, and here's...

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We have about 6 inches here My chickens and ducks are NOT happy about it

Quote: Do you know "Wildside Cottage and Gardens" in Conway? A friend of ours started it/lives there and she has some cool gardens. Black mottled Favs sound awesome, do you have any pics showing what they look like?

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I love the warmth! No more having to break ice off of the water buckets in the morning Sorry about your hen

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The forecast says lots of snow coming up next week The chickens won't be happy

Almost all the snow melted here so our driveway was partially flooded, the ducks loved it! Our chickens liked the warm weather but not the rain lol

My chickens are refusing to come out of the coop this morning , the ducks don't seem to mind the snow though.