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    Rhode Island Reds who to pair with them?

    Currently looking for cost efficient ways to extend the run! More about chicken confinement then predator proof as we have an outside dog that keeps most things away and doesn't bother the chickens unless they escape
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    Rhode Island Reds who to pair with them?

    We are still getting our prey driven dogs used to the chickens.... They are getting there slowly but not to where I'm comfortable letting them have run of the back yard yet.... Then we have our lovely hawk and owl to worry about lol. We've been letting our hurt RIR roam a bit just because she's...
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    Rhode Island Reds who to pair with them?

    Good to know! It was advertised as being able to house 10 chickens we thought we were playing it save with 6. We do plan on extending the run just need lumber to go down a tad lol. And we are thinking of only getting 2 instead of 4 more we don't need that many eggs anyways.
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    Rhode Island Reds who to pair with them?

    They had been together since April we happened to get the RIR at the same time we moved the Americaunas out to the coop (raised from chicks). Our run is 3.5ft by 6ft our coop i believe is 3.5 by 3ft with three nesting boxes and 2 long perches (but they all used to sleep in a pile)
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    Rhode Island Reds who to pair with them?

    Hi there! I'm just going to jump right into it. We currently have 2 RIRs and 4 Americaunas. Well the Americaunas are jerks and gang up on one of the RIR. We've run through the isolation motion and nothing is working our RIR is so stressed she rather be in a dog cage by herself (which who...
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    Hello from Florida!

    Hey there everyone! First Time Chicken mom based out of Lakeland and it's not going so smooth (but I'll post about that in a different thread 😂😂) So excited to learn everything possible to take care of our "chick chicks" as my daughter calls them.
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