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    Toy's for Chicks?

    Awesome time to start teaching them HOW to play with toys. Start with small balls and then add little bit bigger every few days till its a small beach ball size. Perches in their run are important. Hanging safe grass, weeds, veggies like a pinata is alot of fun. Tin plates or mirrors is fun...
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    My chicken watering solution

    Now that looks like an inside job!
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    Maine coop 2012

    wow ! ! ! that looks sooo good!!!
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    crowing roosters

    as in scratching their "Adam's apple". It seems to have worked on mine so far -- only one of them is starting to crow.
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    crowing roosters

    We have a bunch of roosters --- 12 weeks old. when we got them @ 1 to 4 days old I started gently stroking their throats in the hopes of damaging their crowing mechanism. I did this only a few times when they were little. Now at 12 weeks old -- 1 has just started to crow. MAYBE-- perhaps no...
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    FLIES!

    flies in the house-- could be from your shoes tracking fly larva and eggs into your house. Sprinkling DE on a door mat outside or inside your back door will help with this problem. the coop-- the fly trap bags with water-- yes they catch flies-- but I wonder does it also cause flies to...
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    How have people sound-proofed their coops?

    a 6 foot fence might help
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    To Insulate, or Not insulate...that is the question.

    how well does the insulation muffle the crowing ?? Our neighbors live really close. Thanks
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