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    Recommendations: Best locks for keeping out raccoons?

    I would definitely pin one door to make it solid and then a basic door latch for a pad lock from the free door to the pinned one and then throw a carabiner on there. Coop looks good.
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    How many chickens can roost in an 8x5 coop?

    Our coop is approximately 4x8 ft. Our roosting area is about 3x4ft. It has two bars about 4ft each. In this picture, there are 12 birds on the 2 bars. Fat Bobby sleeps on the water bucket because she doesn't like the ramp to the roost. Lol. We haven't had any problems locking them up every...
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    Recommendations: Best locks for keeping out raccoons?

    We use a carabiner that also has the thing that screws over the catch. So far, knock on wood, we have had zero issues. I think it was $2 at Walmart
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    Meat breed or something else?

    We have 13 birds that basically freerange in their 2500sf run and have access to the feeder in their coop all day. Any recommendations on how to limit food intake for 1 bird?
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    Meat breed or something else?

    In the last 2 weeks, a lot of the white has gone away and her feathers are getting really shiny.
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    Meat breed or something else?

    We bought Bobby under the impression "she" was a welsummer as a chick. Big surprise. She isn't. Any ideas as to what breed she is? At the time of these pics, she weighed in around 6 lbs. And was approximately 8ish weeks plus or minus 2 weeks.
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    Cast-iron waffle maker secrets?

    Sorry for the thread revival Guys, the secret to cast iron, any cast iron isn't in the recipe, the heating element used, or even the seasoning. It's in the temperature patience. Preheat your waffle iron on low-medium heat for 5-6 minutes per side. I test to make sure its warm enough by...
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    used tea bags as food?

    We just use plain black tea and I was wondering if it was safe to throw in the compost pile. Our compost pile is in the chickens run so they have full access to it. There are no strings tags or Staples on our tea bags. Just the bag and the tea leaves
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    Pellets or shavings? Why?

    I believe the problem with stove pellets vs bedding pellets is that they probably use hard woods for the stove pellets and from my understanding, hardwoods are bad for chickens
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    Pellets or shavings? Why?

    Not that we have seen. They have definitely picked them up, but they drop them. We are still feeding crumble and grower feed that is small pieces and they don't resemble the pellets at all. If your feed looks like the pellets, it may be an issue, but I doubt it. We have used Equine Fresh...
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    Pellets or shavings? Why?

    So this brings up another question. Those of you that use the pellets? How much water do you use per 40 lb bag? Do you mix it in a wheel barrel or something and then let it dry out after it fluffs and then put it in the coop? Or do you put it in the coop mist it and rake it and stir it around?
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    Pellets or shavings? Why?

    We mist ours with water and it seems to help keep the dust down, but we have never saturated them enough to really get them to expand. Also, we are using them in like a 50 gallon tote basically for a brooder. Within a few days half of them are turned to dust from the chickens scratching around.
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    Changing to Sweet PDZ

    Is this what you are using? Is around a buck a pound average price? Still happy with it?
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    Pellets or shavings? Why?

    One of my thoughts was that the shavings get wet and stay wet. I was thinking that if need be, you could mist the pellets with water to cut down on the dust for cleanup as they don't seem to get soggy like pine shavings would.
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    Pellets or shavings? Why?

    We are putting the finishing touches on our Coop. It is 4 foot by 8 foot and elevated off the ground. We put down linoleum in the coop for ease of cleaning and sweeping it out. We currently have our 12 chickens in a couple totes inside waiting to go out into their new coop. We use equine fresh...
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