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    Created a water saver for my duck brooder

    This is great! I have ducks for the first time (lots of chickens already) and they were so messy I drafted up a simple box in tinkercad and 3d printed it. My water dish sits on top of this and save me a ton of mess. That water dispenser is also a 3d print. 😃
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    How to raise your chickens to be extremely tame.

    From hatch day on I say "Hey Girrrrrrlllls" every time I feed, or give treats, or dump compost, or anything that will make them interested. The SCRAMBLE over each other when they hear it. They'll come hauling butt across a pasture when they hear me calling out. It's freakin adorable and...
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    November 2023 Hatch-A-Long

    I had 12 olive egger eggs at the start, 9 hatched! It's crazy in the baby brooder now. Last weekend I had a couple barnyard mixes hatch and now they're all living together.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Gorgeous day here in Clark Co. The girls are loving the sun!
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    Living the dream in Camas, WA

    Living the dream in Camas, WA
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hello Washingtonians. I have 8 layers who are behaving more like 3 layers right now. :D My barred rocks and a lavender orpington still are plopping out eggs but the EEs and Buff orpingtons all quit. Spring will be a different story - I have seven 6-week olds in the big brooder and two under 10...
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    SW Washington chicken mathematician

    Hey y'all. I live in Clark County WA on a beautiful 5 acre patch of heaven. We're mostly forest with a couple of acres of usable land. I started with 9 chickens, quickly went to 16 and now am facing down 30 by end of year. It's wonderful. I work from home and have them free ranging during the...
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