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    electric netting

    It has been YEARS since I've been here! Glad to be back! We are moving to a new farm, and I would like to set up semi-permanent electric netting for my girls. Is there a brand anyone who uses this prefers? I would like to make it as large as I can. They'll be locked up at night, out during...
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    Unknown Predators must love white chickens

    I have had two sets of white brahmas in two years, and was never able to identify what's taking off with them. Does anyone know why predators seem to like white chickens over others?
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    Need run ideas/electric netting

    I have not visited BYC in a long time, and I'm glad to be back The coop we built several year ago came from so many ideas we liked here. We are moving to a beautiful new farm, which already has a stunning coop, but no run. I thought about free-ranging them. Too much traffic, I have not...
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    Direct sun problem

    I'm in southern WI, but that sun gets HOT here in the summer too. I planted hops outside my west facing run fence. They are coming up like mad this year. The perfect natural shade, and they grow fast! The hops vining up the run fence sure looks nicer than when I zip tied a tarp to it.
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    How often do you clean your brooder?

    I currently have 26 chicks and 3 ducklings in a 4'x4' brooder. I completely strip and replace bedding every other day. I finally came up with a way to keep the ducks from making such a mess with the water...or I'd be doing it every day! OMG ducks are messy!! The brooder expands to 4'x8', and...
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    silver laced wyandotte combs

    So I've been looking at photos, and some combs appear larger/thicker than others. I have 26 chicks in all, four of them are SLWs. They are only four weeks old. I've raised chicks before, although not SLW, or any kind of wyandotte, and just based on the other breeds I've had (leghorn, RIR and...
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    Water mess in the brooder

    I have three, 2 week old Cayuga ducks. My GOODNESS do they grow fast!! Two are crested, one more than the other, and it's growing on me. Hard not to smile looking at that poof on his/her head! Of course I know ducks like water... but HOLY COW are they making a mess. They have a typical...
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    Porcelain d'uccle thread

    I have had my chicks for over a week now, and they are absolutely beautiful and amazing. Happy, healthy chicks. I am very pleased! Angie
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    My chicks/ducklings came this morning!!

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    My chicks/ducklings came this morning!!

    I had a 100% live arrival of our chicks and ducklings this morning! They all seem to be doing no worse for wear (considering they came from TX to WI), and happy to be out of that box. The brooder area for the 30 babies right now is 2x4 feet, and some of them have taken to using the entire...
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    Chicks and ducklings coming...SO excited!

    I knew people here would understand..... Two weeks from tomorrow my chicks and ducklings are supposed to arrive! I have 5 black australorps 5 Ameraucanas 5 Buff Orpingtons 5 SLW 6 d'uccles (3 mille fleur, 3 porcelain) and 3 cayuga ducks! All birds are supposed to be female except the...
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    Brooder Help

    I just wanna say it's BEAUTIFUL and I would LOVE to have something like that! With the last flock of chicks I raised, I had 10 and my brooder was about half your size. Think you'll be alright!
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    D'uccle chicks

    glad to hear these things! I don't know why I've been reading what I have...and then not giving a reason behind it.
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    Raising some babies in winter?

    I'm in WI, our winter has been brutal this year. Tomorrow's high is still below 0. I'm getting my third group of chicks Feb. 21. I have always raised them in an old water tank brooder in my unheated garage. I will do the same this time. As long as the brooder has sides, and there are NO...
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    D'uccle chicks

    I have never had d'uccles (or bantams for that matter). I have some mille fleur and porcelains ordered. They are beautiful, and I hear they generally make great pets. I'm just curious.... I have done a great deal of research on them, and I am seeing on other websites, and even on the reviews...
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