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    Milk crates

    I've seen a few threads on using milk crates for nesting boxes, but most of those are regarding "average" size birds. I'm currently in a position where I had to give up my flock, and I can't have more birds for a minimum of 3 years, more likely to be 4. My old flock was all Jersey giants and...
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    Hoop coop tractor? Better ideas?

    I am in a pickle here, we are being forced to move (long story) and I'm losing my chicken coop, but we can't afford to buy a place with prices right now so renting it is. That being said, my MIL can take my birds (which we will be banding to differentiate from her birds) for a temporary stay...
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    Feed questions

    I know that three roosters is too many, it happens with feed store chicks though and I knew it would. I have a plan to split them into two flocks, but that can't happen until mid-end of summer due to weather constraints on the coop remodel I'm working on. My older rooster just hit a year old and...
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    How would you cook up Rooster?

    Coq au vin or in a pressure cooker.
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    Feed questions

    I am semi new to chickens. I've had adults for 3 years but just got chicks, and they are old enough now that I know two out of twelve are roosters. The adults that I had for three years were inhereted. Never had chickens before them. My MIL was supposed to he helping me learn, and teaching me...
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    Introduction

    I am pretty new to chickens, first got them when I moved in with my now-husband 3 years ago. His mother was -supposed to- help me learn chicken care, as she lives 10 minutes from us and has somewhere around 50 chickens herself. The flock I started with was a batch of chicks she had...
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