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    Pine Needles OK???

    The summer drought made it very difficult to get straw for the hen-houses this fall. So I'm trying to use pine branches cut small. Does anyone have experience with this? This is fresh pine, not (unfortunately) pine-needles. But I can't imagine there being any problem - what do you think?
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    Three hens trade off on sitting on same clutch of eggs. What's happening?

    Had a one-year-old hen go broody on me this Spring, gathered a total of 26 eggs under herself. Were waiting to see if any would hatch out when we noticed that she was out foraging - and an older hen was sitting on the clutch instead. A few hours later, the older hen had been chased away by...
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    Topic of the Week - Feeding Treats

    For a cheap winter treat, try growing a tray of cat-grass. Grass seeds are cheap, you grow them in a windowsill, and the flock will tear all the grass upp and eat it in 5 seconds flat.
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    How to protect free-range chicks from dominant hens and predators?

    Thanks! I've been checking out that forum regularly. Will continue to do so.
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    Rooster names...

    Surely the rooster should be Le Roo? Or Leo Roo?
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    How to protect free-range chicks from dominant hens and predators?

    I live in Sweden, have 5 hens and one cautious, sweet, quiet rooster. The hens (favorolles and Sussex) are very broody, and I've loved letting them hatch. They are all free-range. The problem is that one dominant hen pecks at and kills the chicks; while hawks seem to find hens with chicks easy...
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    Titan Incubator Automatic Door opener?

    Did you get it returned? Perhaps that what I should do. It wasn't cheap!
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    Titan Incubator Automatic Door opener?

    We bought such a door this Autumn. We could never get the light sensor to work, but it opened and closed OK with the timer for about a month. The motor then went haywire and kept on trying to open the door until the string broke. This was on December 21st, which meant our Christmas plans were...
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    Crows

    I have seen a magpie eating a wren chick out of a nest, the parents yelling their heads off impotently: I wouldn't put this past a crow. But the main problem I have is jackdaws - we have enormous flocks of them in my town - eating all the hen-food (my hens are free-range). How can you tell if...
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    Do all roosters crow

    We have a faverolle rooster, taken from a larger flock where he was harassed by older roosters, now head of a flock of 3 hens. About 1 year old. He crows when he's hungry, and when we flash a light into the coop at night; otherwise, inaudible. Greateful for comments on this, as we have smuggled...
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