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I have found that there is a little bit of laying difference between winter and summer for my chickens - though I have only had them just over a year so I don't have that much experience! Last winter I was getting around 8-10 eggs from 14 chickens and 10-12 last summer. I find what really makes the ...

Very sorry to hear about your losses. I am quite new to keeping chickens myself and experienced similar dismay and shock when a few of my first birds died after a few months earlier this year. I suspected it was Marek's but didn't get it confirmed. Fortunately the rest of my birds have been fine sin...

I use Green People's Rosemary Deodorant and that works fine for me. They do a bunch of other scented and unscented deodorants too, but I haven't tried them.

http://www.greenpeople.co.uk/organicdeodorants.aspx

Hi all! My boyfriend and I are slowly trying to become as self sufficient as we can. Last year we got some chickens and we are trying our hands at growing a bunch of different vegetables this summer - fingers crossed things will work out! Really happy I came across this forum, hope we can pick up so...