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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

bobf wrote:
> I guess I thought you limited them to a couple of rounds of hatching
> per year. 

I only have one, somewhat broody hen at present.  She only wants to go 
broody in the Spring.  She's not as good as Rob's Maran<g>.  That is why 
I have borrowed an incubator, and since it is not mine and I have to 
return it in a few months, I am hatching anything I can get my hands on.



 Couldn't you just leave (once you have enough hens and
> roosters) them to do their adult business on their own and raise and
> hatch their chicks, on their own, and soon you would have a hundred
> chickens running all over the place and you just grab several per
> week to clean and eat?

To do that, I would have to allow 100% free ranging, which I used to do, 
but can no longer do due to multiple 'neighborhood' dogs that are 
chicken killers.
But yeah, that is the best of all options, right there,,,it is just hard 
to do here and now.



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