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    Using Shredded Paper for Coop Litter - As Good As Wood Chips?

    I think it must make a big difference what quality of paper is shredded and what shape the shreds are. I shred mostly corrugated cardboard plus a good amount of newspaper and grocery cardboard (cereal & pasta boxes etc.) using a heavy duty office “micro cut” crosscut shredder. As I believe I...
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    Pigeon Talk

    Cats can be so different one to the other. Some years ago one of my cats, then a young adult, got in amongst the pigeons and though when I found him he was leaving them alone, I also found one female huddled in a corner with a laceration under each wing. But the fact she was still alive (and...
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    Pigeon Talk

    That's funny, mine goes the other way: I would have 5 males and 1 female if another female that was released nearby hadn't decided to move in rather than fly home. (That was in the post I made last fall about the falconer I spotted in the field across the road from my house.) I've figured out...
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    3 Sex-links are Little Roos?

    It seems strange to me that a store would get in straight run sex link chicks, as this is exactly what you would expect to happen!
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    Renovation of Old Shed for a New Coop

    A lot of us here feel that a renovated shed makes the best coop, so you are way ahead of the game! (Me, I think a shed is the 2nd best, after a coop inside a barn like mine, since that makes it much more pleasant to deal with in cold/bad weather. 😂) @springvalley123 makes good points but they...
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    Pine pellets for coop bedding??? Does it work?? I'm curious....

    I’m afraid I really can’t say, since it is surrounded by hardware cloth and packed down pretty well by human feet as I tend to them. They do not scratch as chickens do. I will say that people using it in horse stalls are all over the place, reporting it to be anything from dust free to very...
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    Pine pellets for coop bedding??? Does it work?? I'm curious....

    If used straight out of the bag as many seem to do, it does take a lot of bags to make a thick layer. However, made into sawdust as above, they fluff up amazingly, so a half inch layer of pellets may be 2 inches deep sawdust. In my pigeon aviary I use two bags to cover 6’x16’ (96sf)...
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    Horse bedding pellets

    If you do it when the weather is dry, you won’t even notice the moisture, and it should dry out completely soon enough. And I find it is much easier to clean as sawdust than as pellets because the sawdust will filter through any sort of sifter. Of course that is more true in the cat boxes than...
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    Horse bedding pellets

    Yes, I do not like the texture straight out of the bag in a thin layer. However, I get around this by breaking it down to sawdust by slightly moistening it. For my 6’x16’ pigeon aviary I put down 2 bags which is a very thin layer but when I spray it with the garden hose and let it sit it fluffs...
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    Pigeon Talk

    It is sporadically active. I think there are several of us who get notifications (or notice in the forum listing) when there are new posts, and a few of us who will pop in with news about the pigeons in our lives.
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    Electric fence containment

    It will be too bad if you have to invest in a fence energizer just for one zap. Because, yeah, that's all it takes with some dogs!
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    Electric fence containment

    It depends on what you're concerned about. I don't think I've ever seen the birds get zapped on mine and I'm not sure electrifying it is at all necessary to keep them in — I think it looks pretty solid to them. However, electrifying it will make a big difference in keeping out predators...
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    Using Shredded Paper for Coop Litter - As Good As Wood Chips?

    I definitely see some paper caught in my knives after shredding newspaper, but I pull the worst off right away (it tends to build up primarily at one end) and I assume the rest gets cleared off by the cardboard I shred because it doesn’t seem to stick around. (As I have mentioned in earlier...
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    Converting raised coop into walk in coop

    I think I would probably try to convert your existing coop. That looks like a nice solid roof, so adding some solid structure to the sides should make a nice coop. The biggest issue I see offhand is whether it will be easy to remove the floor of the existing raised coop portion. The ease of that...
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    Converting raised coop into walk in coop

    What are you thinking of doing? Just lowering the floor of the current coop area, or closing in the entire coop/run to make a larger coop? It sounds like @dearmeghann enclosed the entire coop/run to make a larger coop, something a number of people here have done (based on accounts that I have...
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