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    Dog obsessed with chicks

    It's really important to me that the chickens and dog get along. Once these chickens are old enough I intend to let them roam free in my fenced backyard. I built a good coupe, with a run in it, but having chickens running around my yard eating bugs and fertilizing is important to me. The dog is...
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    Dog obsessed with chicks

    Funny thing is that my cats don't seem interested either, just the dog. I think the problem is that the dog is an attention whore, and has been getting less from the kids and myself since the chicks have arrived. If that dog gets half the attention he has, he is still the most spoiled hound...
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    Dog obsessed with chicks

    I just got my 6 week old chicks in the coop and my dog is obsessed with getting at them. He a little Boston Terrier. We have cats, and even a pet rat that he is completely friendly with. I think that he is so interested in them because they are in a coop and out of his reach. I took a chick out...
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    What are safe temperatures??

    I am wondering what exactly are safe temperatures for chickens. I live along the coast in Central California and the temperatures are about 50degrees at night in the summer and high 40's at night in the winter. I have never had frost on my lawn or roof in the 7 years I have lived here. Many...
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    Mothers day gift

    I live in Monterey, which you probably already know is around 2 hours south of Pacifica. Nice place to live, and like I said we are close to a lot of farm land, so there are no shortage of places to get chickens. I got the idea for the design by looking at posts on this site. I have a bit more...
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    Mothers day gift

    We haven't decided on which birds to get, and I do appreciate and welcome the advice. I know you can order your chicks online, which seems really strange to me. We live next to lots of rural areas which have plenty of feed stores that carry chickens. We were thinking we would like to start out...
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    Mothers day gift

    Hello all, I am new here and new to chickens. Actually we don't have any chickens yet, but for my wife mothers day gift I started building her a new coop. Thanks to some reading and pictures here I was able to get what I needed. I should finish it up this weekend. I have read lots of valuable...
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