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    Review by 'Birds of paradise' in article 'Texas Chicken Ranch'

    You can see a lot of love and ching 💵 went into this project. It looks awesome though.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    How do you keep pests off your tomatoes? We have a lovely long growing season in South Africa, but the rats, mice, birds and insects get to the tomatoes just as they show any signs of ripening. Drives me nuts that they're enjoying the fruits of my labor before I can.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Our neighbour has huge bamboo growing on our boundary wall. We use it "sustainably" from our side to stake our plants and feed our rabbit and guinea pigs. That stuff grows through our cement paving, it's the Godzilla of grasses.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Support the little guy trying to make an honest living 🙌
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Just a suggestion, why not turn the paper and cardboard into a worm farm. They will decompose the stuff for you and turn it into vermicompost which you can use on your farm for your veggies etc.
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    Tree service wood chips for deep litter method inside coop?

    I'm jealous. That's going to be such awesome compost 🤤
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    Musty Wood Chips for Run?

    On your repost, earthy is ok, and a week is still fresh for wood chips. If it's slimy or furry/fuzzy, stay away, or if it takes your breath away with a pungent smell. If it's earthy, then it's decomposing as it should. Wood chips with the chicken manure will make great compost in a few months...
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    Musty Wood Chips for Run?

    If it smells musty, I would give it a miss. It means they're in an anaerobic state of decomposition which you don't want. Rather take a bag or two of your wood shavings and spread that. When I clean my coop out, I spread those shavings in the run to help with mud and mulching. When that looks...
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    Wood chips and mold or any other concerns in run.

    This is the approach we've been following. 2nd month in. We had really heavy rains with torrential flooding in our area. The wood shavings have actually really helped, our chickens are fine and have been healthy.
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    Can you close that gap by your gate? It looks large enough for smaller predators to squeeze through. I don't live in the US but I saw a documentary on raccoons and how crafty they can be, and was amazed at the small spaces they could squeeze through.
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    Covering chain link fenced roof ideas w/ odd layout

    The slope is very important if using tarp. We put tarp over a flat roofed rebar welded frame over wire mesh and the weight of water build up on the tarp after heavy rains bent the rebar and nearly broke our welded joints. We're now looking at installing a pitched roof or replacing the tarp with...
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    To Roof or Not to Roof?

    We built an enclosed run for our small flock. It cost quite a bit in the end. It's basically rectangular in shape and we covered half with tarp. It was great for shade and protection of their feed, but it really put strain on the whole structure when we had 2 weeks of constant rain. If we had...
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    Muddy Chicken Yard

    We had heavy flooding in our area recently, with about 2 weeks of constant rains. We used sawdust/wood shavings. It's worked like a charm and will turn to compost and light mulch for any grass that might survive the beady chicken eye.
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    What would be the benefits of building a larger run?

    Autocorrect, the bain of my life. That was meant to say pullets.
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    What would be the benefits of building a larger run?

    We had grass in our run, it lasted a few days. We added more grass, it lasted 2 days. We only have 5 pellets. I've been growing greens elsewhere in the garden and picking for them daily and I'm even struggling to keep up with that! (That's on top of their feed). Less lawn to mow indeed 😂
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