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    City Girl - Needs Acreage I am close to the city centre on a main road here in BrisVegas (aka Brisbane). Our home is an old Queenslander with a number of bottle brush trees, casias and lillypillies planted around. These trees encourage birdlife, so I of course, have included a bird bath in all...
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    Fire place insert coop

    The only thing I can think of, is the chimney still open? Might it be too cold, draughtwise for her. But apart from that it sounds as though a space that isnt being used, is okay for a small nighttime coop. Good luck
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Yes I am in Australia so it would appear that Americaunas are different standard then to the US ones?? Am confused re: saddle feathers and crests. I will look into that a bit more? But am feeling a tad sad to be hearing that you are thinking theres a boy in here... But I am feeling that for Lady...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Thanks for your replies. I have been meaning to take photos of them but have been slack. Here they are and I apologise that I dont take great photos, but these are my girls Lady Pearl and Violet. I hope to hear that you believe they are girls. And while we are talking of girls what age do they...
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    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Hi Guys - I am stuck for an answer and thought with the amount of experience lurking here; there will be someone with an answer for me hopefully. I have bought two Lavender Ameraucana girls. First time experience with this breed. They had been sexed and sold to me as girls. They are about 20...
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    Bloody egg?

    My older hen has laid a few blood covered eggs of late. But now she appears okay. But it does give a fright when you see it.
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    Complete free range vs. large run -- any feedback?

    Chickens are so flexible and have such simple needs - food and water and a place to sleep I was worried cooping mine up all the time after NEVER being in a run. They settled really quickly - all their food is their own (don't have to share it with the wild birds), and they are safe ALL the time...
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    Do the coop and the run have to be connected?

    As you want specific areas scratched and fertilized, would you better off utilising a chicken tractor? Easy enough then to move around, keeping them safe, you don't have to worry about forgetting to pen them up at nights then either.
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    Trying to get an idea in my head to make sense :S

    If you had your coop within the run and up off the ground, the chickens would keep it clean underneath (keeping away the mice)?? Just a thought..
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    The dangers of free ranging extend...

    Yep I understand. I have thought it wonderful that there are no bugs in the yard/garden. But I have NO garden either. So I have penned the girls up and am loving walking around, not stepping in poop and planting herbs etc again in the garden beds.
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    Run built from wooden tomato stakes and chicken wire

    Thanks guys. My construction looks funny but works. I have planted a cucumber vine that hopefully will grown over the top covering and give the girls shade in summer (we are still winter here). Our suburb is such an old suburb that we don't even have snakes here to worry about. The only...
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    Run built from wooden tomato stakes and chicken wire

    Well when the dog fatally injured one of the Red Sisters I decided the days of free ranging were over. So I moved the coop over next to the kids cubby house and with a good supply of tomato stakes, chicken wire and a staple gun I managed to put a run around the coop. Its quite a sight but...
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    Sad chooks

    I am fed up with tattered gardens and poop and made the decision to pen up my 4 girls. Now the Red Sisters don't mind but the other two are depressed, I think. They have only ever free ranged their entire lives; I feel bad for them but I am hoping they will adjust. Have ordered another pen so...
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    Do I need an enclosed area on a hoop coop?

    Being birds they have a inbuilt fear of predators. They dont know that the coop is safe. If they were out they would nest in the trees - among the leaves and branches.. Sleeping in the nest was a good sign where she felt safe; as birds will usually sleep in the highest spot. Good luck.
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    Chickens & cats

    Quote: No offense taken. No one was more surprised than me when I saw what she had in her mouth. She's gone to kitty heaven now (brown snake got her in her old age), but she taught me the lesson, that you just never know what they are capable of.
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