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    Advice needed for coop/run add-on

    I think (hope) the peace of mind knowing that they are enclosed will make up for it :)
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    Advice needed for coop/run add-on

    OK, after some reading this weekend, I'm strongly considering a "chunnel" (chicken tunnel) set up. Thoughts? Advice? Right now, it would have to be under all this !@#$%^& snow :rantI am SO READY for spring!!
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    Advice needed for coop/run add-on

    Sometimes it feels like it! I had my last group trained to comes when I shook the treats! Made me feel like the pied piper :lol:
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    Advice needed for coop/run add-on

    My "perfect" solution would be something that I would be able to herd them into in the mornings and back into their coop in the evenings. Thoughts? Or is this unreasonable?
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    Advice needed for coop/run add-on

    We have land and air-based attacks, unfortunately. My thought at the moment is to have a wire "tunnel" for them to make it to an enclosure, "tractor-like" contraption that I could move from area to area with the 4-wheeler. I feel like I'm making this more complicated than it needs to be, though.
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    Advice needed for coop/run add-on

    Hi, all! I'm not new to BYC but haven't posted for a while... My question at the moment is this: we have a coop and run that can accomodate 12 hens easily. My concern is that they have the run down to dirt and I am reluctant to allow the girls to free-range. In the past we have had a record...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Hi Wingstone! I grew up in Huntingdon county (went swimming in the Three Springs pool many times - not sure if it's still there now). Southern Huntingdon County - where you're looking - is actually a little more rural than the northern part that I called my stomping grounds for 18 years...
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    Snake needs to die....how?

    Apologies for opening a can of worms (or snakes as the case may be). After working at a university for 20 years, I have come to accept that not everyone thinks the same say, but that everyone's opinions need to be heard and respected....not agreed with, necessarily. For example, I don't/won't...
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    Snake needs to die....how?

    We had problems last summer with juvenile rattlesnakes - not sure at what age they become a threat - and the juveniles are tough to ID. We don't have a rodent issue - the stray cats keep them in check. My plan for now is to wait until it gets cooler out in the hope that the cooler temps will...
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    Snake needs to die....how?

    Only seeing the head - which had the triangular shape of a copperhead - it's hard to tell for 100%, but with barefoot kids and dogs running in the fields often, and being in an area with many venomous snake sightings, I think better safe than sorry.
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    Snake needs to die....how?

    OK, this isn't strictly chicken related, but I thought I would ask you all... I was walking from the hen house to our house this morning and saw something sticking out of the bluebird box hole. Thinking it was a baby fledging, I went closer to find it was the front several inches of a snake...
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    PLESE HELP!!!! Chickens beak got bit off

    I found this thread last night and had to stop halfway through (once it looked certain that Fuzzy Bum was going to make it). Her (and your @tmlpike ) story reads like a soap opera or a "can't put it down" kind of book. I couldn't wait to get home from work today to read the rest! @tmlpike...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    If you're close to a college that's still in session, the seniors that are leaving and some underclassmen with no way to get them home will oftentimes have mini fridges for cheap or free
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    THANKS TO YOU ALL!!! My 16 babies moved happily and healthily to the coop yesterday! I have learned so much from following the discussions in this thread and in others over several years that I felt somewhat prepared for the peeps when they arrived. They are 3 1/2 weeks old and we moved...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Hello from west Union county! I have a first-time brooder full of a mixed group of 16. They are 3 weeks old, and I'm already getting worried about the issue you're talking about. Thanks for asking it - it wouldn't have occurred to me until the time came (and I quite possibly may have spent...
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