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    Straw or dirt for my fenced run?

    I put piles of leaves, pine needles, and other yard waste in the outside run and they immediately start climbing Leaf Mountain and spreading it all over the place. They really seem to love it. It also serves as a means of composting their poop and making the run smell like autumn leaves...
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    Chickens at night coop

    Have your chicks made progress in going to bed? i raised mine with a heating pad cave and no heat lamps, so when they moved outside they were already accustomed to a day-night cycle. They hesitated to enter the dark coop but they always went in after about 10 minutes of frantic peeping. You...
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    cutest chicken names!

    So we just got our first chicks 4 months ago, and I'm so ashamed. They started with names of Kickass Women Who Changed The World: Our buckeye was Ida B. (Wells-Barnett) Our speckled sussex pair were Suzie and Cady (for Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) Our light brahma was Ruthie...
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    New addition on our 11 month old unfinshed coop

    Your coop is simply gorgeous, and I'm loving your pics and updates. Keep 'em coming!
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    Sometimes the help is not so helpy

    Sunday was a beautiful day here on Long Island, NY...so I decided to get caught up on some office work out in my back yard. Spent the next 30 minutes gently shoving 6 persistent hens out of my personal space. Accomplished approximately zero work. But boy, those girls are cute.
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    Six Hens, Not Quite One Brain

    Thanks! We are still fiddling with the last little details, securing hardware cloth and such. Next step is to research the best way to set up hawk-proof electric fenced area for free range during the day when we are not at home to babysit. They really, really love to be roaming free but they...
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    Six Hens, Not Quite One Brain

    My chicks are two months old and today they experienced their first real rainfall. Their options for dealing with the rain included: They could hang out inside the coop They could hang out under the coop They could hang out in the outdoor run, underneath the corrugated roofing They could...
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    Tour of our first coop

    24' x 12', which is the compromise between my wanting it as large as possible and my spouse's concern about how much of our yard was going to be lost to the chickens :)
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    Tour of our first coop

    I'm so excited, the coop is finally done and our 5 1/2 week old chicks have moved out of the house - woo hoo! Here are the features: In retrospect I would have made it bigger, it's just the minimum size for our 6 hens (30 square feet, including 6 sq. ft. of nesting box) Will be using deep...
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    Racoons, fox, hawks, snow - what's your experience building a secure run?

    Very nice Chickenmama! Is that 8 x 16?
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    Racoons, fox, hawks, snow - what's your experience building a secure run?

    Hi all, newbie here, first chicks arriving May 18. I have been poring over the forums and learning lots, but I am hoping to get some consolidated feedback from people in similar situations to mine as to the best methods for building a secure outdoor run. Here are my parameters: There will be...
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    ⠀ Nutritional loss of fermented feeds. Purina rep insight appreciated.

    Heya, I replied to your question but since I'm a newbie and my response contained links to outside web pages, my post went to moderation . Hopefully it will clear in a couple of days.
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    ⠀ Nutritional loss of fermented feeds. Purina rep insight appreciated.

    Hey there - I am by no means a chicken expert but I have a background in biology and looked into some peer-reviewed published research because I was curious about this myself as I start to prepare for my first flock. TLDR version: there is good evidence that feeding fermented foods has...
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