We thought we’d broken this hen of her bad guest habit. After driving the laying hens out to the orchard, this girl kept coming back, walking some 300 yards to hang out around the house. Each night, we’d find her sitting behind some portable deer fencing leaning against the house and we’d drive her back […]
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Just as our flock of Rhode Island Reds began laying eggs for the first time, we had to move them. We had been keeping their mobile coop close to the house. But the chickens discovered a layer of Styrofoam behind the stucco around the foundation and couldn’t resist pecking holes all over the place. Why […]
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We are collecting one egg per day from our 28 laying hens (and two roosters). For some reason, the hens that are laying are all using the same box in their mobile coop, even though they have a choice of eight boxes in all. I put a used golf ball in each box, along with […]
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