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    Experienced chicken owners, I need some advice

    I have only had my chickens for about a year. During the winter I keep them locked up in their coop, once the snow melts I let them roam free during the day and lock them up at night. About a month ago one of our hens stopped going in the coop. We saw her every once in a while getting a drink of...
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    New to the group

    How funny your buck let the girls out. I have no idea how this buck opened our girls stall, there was a huge nail holding it shut. Thank you for easing my mind about our little girl, luckily she is already bigger than her mother. I had been told they shouldn’t get pregnant before a year but I...
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    New to the group

    Thank you. Yes I am a fan of the Dead :- ) and one of my dogs is named Scarlet after the song so I’ve been using her name for years. I am in Montana, I just added it to my profile :- )
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    New to the group

    Yes, we just borrowed a buck from the girl we bought our goats from. Hoping for spring babies, when it isn’t too cold and not very hot yet. We had planned to keep him for three weeks as I’m not quite sure when she goes into heat. As soon as we brought him in the barn they mated three times in...
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    New to the group

    Hello, I’ve recently acquired 3 Nigerian dwarf goats, 1 doe, her doeling and the sire who is now a weather and 4 chickens. My husband grew up on a ranch breeding horses and raised pigs and a show Charolais bull. I however am very new to all of this having only had dogs my whole life. We’ve had...
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