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    Concrete chicken coop concept

    I had a discussion with Mrs Coopscraft this morning about how the roosters seem to be engaging in their own discussions at 3am. I have been brainstorming for a while about noise reduction mensures. Already we have been shutting them in at night but we still hear them in the house. Even the hens...
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    How to train chickens to not fly over fence?

    I clip feathers on one wing only. With lighter breeds like leghorns this takes away their flight control. Leghorns with both wings clipped can still clear a six foot fence. With one wing clipped they tend to fly in a circle.
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    Gooy tailpipe

    Is this a disease or just messy feathers?
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    Gooy tailpipe

    Is this a concern? It is in the 50s Fahrenheit.
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    How do you like cooking your eggs?

    Other: over hard with cheese, bacon crumbles, and Jamaica seasoning. Other: collect all the grease from making cheese burgers and scramble it into the eggs with steak seasoning. Other: scramble the eggs and when they are almost fully cooked, spread them out, spread pizza sauce over the top...
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    What is the name for this pattern?

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    What is the name for this pattern?

    Mixed breed chick a few days old. Just wondering if this is a specific pattern or maybe just a miscalanius pattern?
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    Counting chickens!

    Here’s my barnyard mix so far. Potential parentage includes two barnyard roosters, and hatchery quality leghorn, Sumatra, olive- egger roosters x to hatchery quality leghorns, Easter eggers, copper dominant, speckled Sussex, and other hens.
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    Sell Me On A Duck Breed

    Muscovy ducks: quiet goofy hardy calm free range domesticated from a wild bird in Central America.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens?

    Caught my first leghorn when I was two years old. I’m 41. I still have chickens, But I have occasionally been without for more than a decade. Chickens are quite often the perfect livestock for a small homestead where you just want to raise your own clean protein.
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    I live on the eastern edge of the willamette valley right on the seem between 50-90” rain.

    I live on the eastern edge of the willamette valley right on the seem between 50-90” rain.
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    Skinny chickens

    Have you weighed them? Birds, regardless of breed that were selected for egg production are relatively skinny.
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    Skinny chickens

    I second that a correctly balanced crumble is fine. In fact, chickens bite the pellets into smaller pieces anyway so pellets are just more work. You mention they are four months old. Unless they have started laying, give them a start and grow crumble or an all-flock formulation until they lay...
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    SO. MUCH. MUD. Thinking of putting a metal roof on run....

    Putting a roof on the run is a good idea if it’s not to large to be affordable. In my area it rains 50” within a six month period. It tends to rain in all directions simultaneously so even places under cover get soaked. I control mud by constantly adding wood chips to the run and walkways. I get...
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    I really want a duck!

    Re drakes in with chickens. My cousin says his Muscovy drakes mount the geese. I haven’t had an issue with my drake mounting any hens. My hens can easily outrun him. I am not sure that would be the case with a lighter breed of duck. I have noticed that my hens do tend to get away even from the...
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