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    Crowing Question

    Surprisingly the top stays cool. Yes there is a vent up top also the window can open, but we haven't needed to. They seem to like it up there the nest are in the back there you can see the dividers then there is a door that opens to access those also. We are in the process of planting some shade...
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    Crowing Question

    This is the big door to help make clean up easier, we also ran water and electrical out to coop so we could have. A fan in summer and hearing lamp in winter l... Spoiled chickens!
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    Crowing Question

    It has these flaps on both sides to help with ventilation as well as in winter to shut and hopefully stay warm.
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    Crowing Question

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    Crowing Question

    24x8 for coop and run is about 45ft deep and we have it divided down the middle bc under the coop there are two doors to the outside going to each run, so we can alternate sides if we need to but grass is growing so quickly we leave both open most days. As far as cleaning it out on the back side...
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    Crowing Question

    Here are more pics of my BO and our coop/setup, excuse the muddy mess, my husband is working on building a walkway from the house to the coop.....Here is the coop and run and my buff orpington
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    Crowing Question

    Thank you, i think he is pretty! He is 24 weeks. He doesn't seem aggressive towards any of us, i know that can change at any point, but so far he has been mild mannered.
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    Rooster Stopped Crowing

    Back the last weekend of February we got baby chicks 7 turned out to be cockrells. We got rid of all but 1, and of the ones we got rid of the top roo was one of those, after that the one we kept crowed some the first week or so of being the only rooster and now 2 months later he never crows! I'm...
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    Crowing Question

    So i originally had 7 cockrells, i had to get rid of 5 of them, including the top 2, I kept my favorite Elvis, i am unsure of his breed, americana maybe? anyways, when the others were still here Elvis would crow some, but not near as much as the top 2, the day we sold the others Elvis crowed...
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    Rooster pecking hens tail feathers ?

    I have since locked up the rooster only reason i did the victim was so that the other chickens wouldnt peck her wound. Everything i read said that was likely. I guess i will likely have to choose a rooster. We very likely have more than 2, only timenwill tell....:/
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    Rooster pecking hens tail feathers ?

    I have 24 chickens 2 are rooster that i know of this far. They are 12 weeks old. One of our roosters "Randy" will go around and peck all of the others tail feathers, they will squawk and at first we thought it was kind of funny, no big deal, but he just seems to be getting worse we noticed...
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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    I am looking for Barred Plymouth Rock, preferably laying but if not, more than 8 weeks old. anyone? I'm new to the chicken thing, but we are loving the ones we have!
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