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We have about 10 laying boxes, and get about 6-12 eggs a day, depending on the hens (right now we have a few broodies hogging the boxes). It's sort of a perpetual egg hunt, enjoyed by both adults and children on the farm, we have one hen who lays only in the trash can, and we're always finding...

Thanks for your reply! We have found that penning or cooping the chickens entices predators, mongoose and wild dog. The chickens are safer when free to flee. Wild chickens roam the island anyway, they've just bred with our domestics and made them a bit tougher. Our birds are here primarily...

Aloha, I'm a very new poultry keeper, having taken on the care of a motley free ranging farm flock. Within the past few days one of the geese has developed a swelling under his bill, he seems alright and is still eating and has good energy, but the odd swelling certainly looks like a problem to...

Hello, and thank you for adding me to the forum. I've been looking for awhile but just got around to actually registering. We have an inherited flock of the sorts of odd birds who arise when breeding is entirely uncontrolled. Somewhere around sixty hens (australorps to silkies and blends with...