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My Temporary Tractor Hi, thought I might in introduce myself. I am new to chickens. My twins brought home 2 from the first grade. I don't know what kind they are. Tyson gave a bunch of eggs and incubators to the first grade to hatch as a project. My tractor/brooder is a scavenged shopping...

Chicken Tractor I built a chicken tractor and I thought that other readers might gain some ideas and motivation to build their own if they could see mine. Dean

Candling Eggs 2 Here are the eggs I'm candling: 5/6/05 I've had the eggs since 5/4/05. We're not sure how old they were when they arrived, but we were told that they wouldn't really start developing until a hen was sitting on them which was two days ago. Here is how I'm candling the eggs: I...

Sue's First Chicken Coop Hiya, Here is our first coop. My hubby built it using an 8x10 shed we bought at home depot. Also a pic of our new and very first chickens! We still have the small things to do, like painting edges and just making it look nicer all around. Thanks...Sue

The City Biddy Hen House Plans It all started because my son had a pet hen that lived under our porch in a dog house. When I was a child I had bantams, so when my son wanted to keep a chicken for a pet I thought it was a fun idea. Soon the little neighbor girl met "Missy the Hen" when she came...

Thomas Pharr's chicken coop hello here are pics (hope you can see them) of my pen my pen is roughly 24' x20' . it has 4 stalls each 6' x 10' one large area 10' x 24' i nailed 1x6 pt boards around perimeter, i also buried the bottom board to keep out pests. it is a full 8' high there is a door...

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Janet Gale's chicken coop My husband built this wonderful coop for our 6 new chicks. My sister named it Palais de Poulet (which is chicken palace in french). He did the design and measurements in his head, sizing it so the metal roof pieces all fit without having to cut them. We live in the...

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Marek's Disease (written by Message Board member chickchair) When we all order a shipment of chicks from a hatchery, most offer optional vaccination for Marek's disease for a nominal charge. If you are like me, you may have known nothing about the disease and are wondering what the risks...

Chicken Coop I have been searching the internet for the past several months for ideas of building a chicken coop in my backyard for my hens. I ended up buying 8-8 ft posts, some 6ft high field wire and some bird netting for the top. I already had their housing which consisted of a "Hen House"...

Chicken Coop Designs I built a new chicken coop because the old one was in a horrible place and looks terrible . it's in a triangle shape that's useful for snowy areas snow will easily fall off when we started building it we took a lot of wood for the bottom, 3 horizontal 3 vertical then a...