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    ADOR1 Automatic Coop Door?

    I've had my door for over 2 years now and we're still very happy with it. Only changed the battery 1 time. It still beeps and functions just like it was brand new. Hope you get it working soon. It's worth every penny IMO.
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    Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

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    Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

    My mobile hoop coop is going on 3 years old with no problems. It's 13' wide and 32' long(used 6 2x6's for the bottom frame), about 7' tall in the middle. It is a bit too big to easily move around the orchard, so it's getting retired to open pasture to grow out meaties and start chicks. It has...
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    What size of leg bands do you use for your cocks? Size 11 was the largest EZ-Clip available from Twin City and at 1yo they wouldn't fit our WR's. But now I see they have 12's and 14's available. I'm thinking 14's.
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    Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

    This has been around for a while...but some of you may not have seen this. It's a study on 60 dozen eggs packaged using 10 different methods with taste tests every months for 6 months. How to Store Fresh Eggs
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    Farming and Homesteading Heritage Poultry

    Have you asked on the Keeping a Family Cow website? There are quite a few people on there that have Dexter's. Several in East Tx I believe.
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    Farming and Homesteading Heritage Poultry

    The mulberries will provide great shade. We have 5 in our yard and they provide 100% shade under their canopy. I probably cut 4-5 tons of limbs off of them this winter because they were too thick and they're still 100% shade under them. Ours are about 35 years old with 30-40" diameter trunks.
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    Affordable automatic coop door, suggestions?

    I've had one in use for 2 years now. It's mounted on a mobile coop completely exposed to the elements on the front and back(mounted on expanded metal) and has been through just about everything but a tornado. Hail, freezing rain(1/2 ice on it in the morning), 1,000 yr flood, 70mph winds, etc...
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    Show me your quail pens!!!

    @orange belton can you put up some pics of the inside? Thanks,
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    In the midst of this debate, I'm wondering if anyone has tried testing their females? Put a different cock over the standard hens and see what happens. I might try this when I have a pen free up soon. Or during breeding season next year.
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    Ken, do you have anything for sale right now? Blosl? Woeppel? Crosses? Eggs? chicks? juvies? full grown? Though I prefer grown or juveniles if you have them.
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    We are having heck with our White Rock hatching again this year. Last year we thought we were the problem, but now, I don't know. We put 3 WR hens and 1 cock in a breeding pen for about 2 weeks and started collecting eggs. Set about 50 WR eggs over 3 weeks. About 10 were growing at 18 days...
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    New rollout nest design Picture heavy-edited 1/21

    I'm still kickin around. I looked on my comp and can't find any pics. It'll be a day or 7 before I can get some pics. We're actually getting some rain and we have a vacation planned, but when things clear up I'll see what I can do. I do know that on the inside of the coop, there are two...
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    So many questions I'm not sure where to start. Is the Silver gene part of the original WR's or is it something that was introduced later in order to create the "stay white" effect?
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