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    Crow collar for Bantam?

    Does anyone have a recommendation for a crow collar for a bantam? He's 8 weeks?!? I don't recall. He's fully feathered and just this tiny little guy and he's already started crowing! I had no idea that was possible! lol Anyhow I have neighbors that knocked on my door and cursed a blue...
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    3 or 4 week old chicks *fighting*??

    I have 6 bantams - about 3 or 4 weeks old and they are fighting. Its one in particular attacking the others. Grabbing the other one by the neck and jumping on him. I've never seen this before in chicks. They were straight run - is this a male behavior emerging?!?
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    Best bedding for wet muddy run

    I have a question about 'building up the run'. If I add gravel - the hardware cloth will keep in in the run. But if I add dirt on top of that - what will keep that in the run? And if I build up the sides so the dirt doesn't just run off...then won't that cause the same drainage issues?
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    Keeping smell down in run

    We live in New England - so there's lots of weather - sometimes all in a week. Where the run is there's lots of run off from the rain. So there's a bit of erosion we're tackling. In addition - its overlooking the neighbor's yard ( the proper, legal distance) but I still don't want the wind to...
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    @Autumnswirl I LOVE those windows!! @Molpet - perfect!!! Thank you, all!!
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    Just built yesterday so we are still tweaking. The 'people door' is temporary but its in the place I want to build the permanent one. You can see the pop hole door is off to the right (looking in at the people door). There are gaps and spaces that I hope you can overlook because I am working...
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    I should have been more clear! I meant that I could just open the opt and reach the pop hole door (they are close) or even open the top door and throw some veggies in without fear that they will escape. If I want to enter I could use the whole door. lol The foyer is a wonderful idea but we...
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    Has anyone had any success, have any advice, any designs, any reason not to build....dutch doors on the chicken run (for people to walk through - not a pop hole door)?? I was thinking that it would be easier for my family to help me care for the chickens if we weren't always worried about the...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    I will keep that in mind - thank you!!
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    That's interesting, too and makes perfect sense. I'll have to rearrange the nests in the coop. No matter what I put in there they only love one nest and its never been a problem without a rooster (and fertile eggs and broody hens). :/ That last egg has been in the incubator without a sound...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    I've taken the last developing egg out from under Momma and put it in the incubator we just bought. Yesterday I noticed Momma walking around the yard because she had no eggs on the nest. Today she's back in there no doubt sitting on everyone's eggs again. I *had* been removing everyone's...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    I know it was one of the chickens and not another predator because it happened in the coop and the coop is completely predator proof. And yes, proof that it wasn't the rooster after all - another egg went missing over the weekend. Not a trace of it left. Perhaps one cracked and she ate it...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    Was it the broody hen? Was it the rooster? Or was it the two other full grown hens in the coop? And why? Right now I separated the rooster because that was the easiest to do and (to me) the most likely culprit. But I will be away this weekend with someone else watching them. And momma...
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    Frozen eggs - are they ruined?

    Thanks! When you defrost them - are the yolks weird? Mine never really get runny after freezing them - they're just kind of - gelled? Are there things that your previously frozen eggs work best in? Things that they totally do NOT work in?
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    Frozen eggs - are they ruined?

    I had an abundance of eggs this summer so I froze them. I'm not really sure what I was thinking because I've read plenty of threads about scrambling them a bit and throwing in a pinch of salt - but I saw a post where she froze them with the yolk intact so that's what I did. Defrosting them -...
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