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    Free-Ranging Chickens

    I free ranged a few as they were able to leave the run we were building, during the day by flying over the 3foot wall. At night they were shut in. They were unsupervised but we would return to check on them and find the same 3 or 4 had gone out to a 10 or 20 foot perimeter. However within a...
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    Calling all Raccon experts

    Hi, at 8am my local coon is up and waiting for the outdoor cats to be fed. We are now feeding them in the garage but she has learned our habit and has adjusted hers. She is not shy about appearing and only runs off a few feet. We have a call out to have her dispatched as we don't have the...
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    Roosters and breeding pens

    old thread, but i'm new, and our first grp of 25 chicks(some bantams) appears to have quite a few roos. I'm in PA and will have all the chickens together in the barn w/ an outside run in winter. In good weather, I have a second option for a small group, a tractor on wheels, sitting inside a...
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    Coop within a Bank Barn Granary

    Thanks heaps! I feel much better, and after reading about your Canadian winter I feel toasty warm in PA. I'm off to finish the bantam house. We're all sleepy after being up late; one of our little chicks will be a pet I think, she's been bandaided to address her spraddle legs, then upset...
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    Coop within a Bank Barn Granary

    HI, I'm contemplating converting my old dairy barn granary (now housing alpacas in the basement), on the second floor of the barn adjacent to the 'bank' entrance . . . into the 'coop'. This is a 50 foot x 36 foot wooden barn, and rather drafty currently. Weather hits from the west, and the...
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    Need Help... New at this... sick chick :(

    We got our first batch of chickens from a hatchery about a week ago. Tuesday I found a chick (easter egger) trying to peep without making a sound. She looked fine otherwise, but my sister found her the next day... she was dead and underneath all the other chicks. She found this little chick...
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