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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤I'm glad you liked it, that makes me happy☺️ And for sure, it definitely does work on pullets, perhaps even adult chickens, perhaps with a bit...- talkinboutchickens
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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤Older chicks and chickens alike can both be tamed with time and patience! Some have turned out to be the sweetest birds we have! 😊
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Top 50 List Of What Chickens Can & Can't EatSuch great and wonderful information. My family and I truly thank you for sharing this information…- Gerald1969
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Turning a bunk bed into a brooder!Always nice to see materials being re-purposed. Is this still being used as a brooder?- N F C
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Lady Cluck's Work in Progress CoopNice to see how the coop and run were modified as time went on.
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Omlet Coops: The Five Directives of Eglu ExcellenceI will definitely be linking to this article whenever I stumble across someone considering one of these coops. A very informative read!- fowltemptress
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Turning a bunk bed into a brooder!More details on how this bunk bed was converted into a brooder would make for a more complete article.
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Lady Cluck's Work in Progress CoopArticle covered the basics of how it was built and changes made over time.
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Making the Tough Calls - Difficult but Essential
- Blooie
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In a mad frenzy of enthusiasm - that's how we seem to dive into the world of raising chickens. It is so exciting – and scary! For most of us... -
Honeymooners Turn Old Garden Shed into Palace for Super-Spoiled Pets
- Then I Will
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In the first year of our marriage, Dear Husband received this hen-scratch conception in a love letter that proposed we build a coop sometime next... -
Wichita Cabin Coop
- baldessariclan
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The "WICHITA CABIN COOP" A simple, secure, & easy-to-use home for any small backyard flock. 3D Computer Models and Material List... -
Integrating new birds at 4 weeks old
- aart
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Integrating as young chicks is much much easier than older birds, setting the space up to facilitate might not be so easy but well worth the... -
The "Mod" Coop
- feathermaid
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The overall size is 3’ wide by 18’ long by 6’ tall. The coop itself is 3’x 6’x 4’ and raised 19” off the ground. Made to house 3-6 chickens... -
How To Tame Chickens from the Start
- Mountain Peeps
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How To Tame Chickens from the Start Many chicken keepers these days have friendly, tame flocks of birds they consider to be their pets. People... -
Nest Boxes; why do we make a sitting hens job so difficult?
- Shadrach
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Hens have been laying eggs, sitting on them and and hatching them for centuries without human interference. Considering their ancestors the jungle... -
Chicken First Aid Kits - Handy and Essential Supplies, and How to Use Them
- pipdzipdnreadytogo
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Chicken First Aid Kits Sometimes in chicken-keeping, things happen that no one expects. It could be a sudden disease, a squabble between birds... -
Wholesome home-made chicken feed, without sweat, tears, a calculator, or deep pockets.
- Perris
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Introduction This article is written in response to several requests to write up how I make my own chicken feed for my flock of heritage and rare... -
The Beginner's Guide to Incubation
- Pyxis
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The Beginner's Guide to Incubation This guide is intended to help people new to incubation learn how to properly incubate and hatch eggs. It... -
The Great Big Giant Marek's Disease FAQ
- Nambroth
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A long FAQ style article about the complex and frustrating Marek's Disease of Chickens. -
How To Process A Chicken At Home
- booker81
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With the rising cost of food and especially meat, many people are looking to closer to home to start raising their food. Backyard gardens are on... -
Bee's key points to successful and safe free ranging.
- Beekissed
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You really need the right breeds/birds, the right rooster or dominant hen, the right place, the right dog, the right perimeter fencing(if in... -
My $10 Inexpensive DIY Fodder Tower with Dollar Tree Dish Bins
- gtaus
- 8 min read
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I have been reading great things about making barley fodder for the chickens. After much thinking, I decided to build my own fodder tower out of... -
Pecking! Not all pecks are equal.
- Shadrach
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Pecking; not all pecks are equal. A chicken’s beak is extremely sensitive. It is packed with tiny receptors that scientists believe provide the... -
The perch experiment
- True Patriot
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A recent posting has given me an idea to conduct an experiment on what perch types are preferred by my chickens. This will be an ongoing learning... -
Sandyks Chicken Coop
- SandyK
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Sandy's Chicken Coup Once upon a time . . . There was this woman who wanted some chickens. Now she had some chickens, ducks and geese years ago... -
Rooster Flocks
- RoostersAreAwesome
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If you have too many roosters, a simple solution is to start a rooster flock. A rooster flock is a flock that consists of all roosters and no...