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    Daniel & Nina's Adventures in Chickens Hello, we are Daniel and Nina. We are from Georgia and have just begun our first adventure in raising chickens. We have high hopes of having a full organic farm one day in the future, so this is just the beginning. As of today, we have 10 Barred Rocks...
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    Just got chased by a fox!

    Better get some traps set out and try to trap her. It will be fairly easy to trap a fox as they are not nearly as wiley as ol' man coyote. I would not suggest shooting at it with a shotgun unless you are well aware of your surroundings. A shotgun without the proper choke can tend to scatter...
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    The kids and I processed our very first chicken!!

    Looks tasty!! I can imagine that in the crock pot would be pretty good.
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    OExWhAms 2 Weeks old

    I'm thinking Wheaten Americauna.
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    Attaching hardware cloth

    I use my finishing gun with 3/4" staples. You kinda have to hold it over the corner of the joints in the wire, and make sure to turn the pressure pretty low, but it seemed to work consistently. We installed about 40 sq. ft. of 1/2" hardware cloth in about 20 minutes using the finishing gun.
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    Chicks arrived TODAY!

    That other one could still be a Americauna. They come in all different colors. We have 6 of them and a few of them looked like chipmunks, but we had a dark one or two as well. Only time will tell if they will lay a blue egg.
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    want to see what kind of brown egg layers you like

    I hear that the buff orpingtons are pretty good winter layers. we just got our first chicks about 3 weeks ago and we got buffs and barred rocks. I guess we'll see who lays the most eggs during the winter.
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    Hello from the deep south!!

    Hello all, First of all, let me say that it has been a pleasure to find this page. I was doing a google search for Coop and Brooder designs and this is the page I got. So many questions we had were answered in just 5-10 minutes of searching on here. My wife Nina and I(Daniel) have been...
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    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    Check out my page for more pictures of the new brooder. Note: The bottom of both sections is removable so that if food and water spills, you can remove the wood and clean it, and if you want to change the shavings out, you can pull the other side. The food and water portion is a hardware...
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    How soon can the babies fly out of the brooder?

    Well I guess we have lots of early flyers. I first noticed the girls doing it when a moth got in the box around the light. I had never seen such crazy activity in my life. We keep a lid on the brooder so hopefully they won't escape while its opened.
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    How soon can the babies fly out of the brooder?

    Hi, we have just started with a new batch of chicks in a home-built brooder and it seems that the chicks are already trying to fly out every once in a while when I open the lid. These are only one week old and I was wondering if it is normal for them to be able to flutter up in the air that...
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