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    Introduction

    hopefully steel plates around will help this issue. They are pop rivited in the poles.. and its too heavy to lift even if the pop rivets fail.
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    Introduction

    Unfortunately the dog got in the run and killed all 4 girls :( Doing all we can to separate the living spaces of the animals... ie dog is outside while the chicks are inside.. etc.
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    Introduction

    Thanks. Our youngest human kids (6 and 1yo) love the chick "babies". Our eldest kid doesn't seem to care much. The dog seems really interested though.. and hopefully ive reinforced the run enough to stop the dog. We had 4 chicks before.. but sadly the dog found a weakness in the fencing...
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    Chicken Breed Focus Rhode Island Red

    New comer here.. Our girls hatched last Wednesday and are really active at 1.5 weeks. Although when they crash.. they crash!!
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    Introduction

    Hi everyone We're a family of 5 from Australia who are raising 5x Rhode Island chicks.. they were hatched last Wednesday. So about 1.5 weeks old. We cant have roosters in our council area but we are allowed a maximum of 6 chickens per household. We've decided to use basic materials to build...
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