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    The one night I forgot to lock them up *sigh -_-

    I have a solar powered automatic chicken door and it works great. I have mine set to close just after dark and by then all my chickens are inside. I love not having to worry if the door is closed. Everything in my pen is automatic, water, food and door.
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    Australorp hens very broody

    I wanted a breed that would go broody a lot, and I sure got some with these Australorps. Out if my 24 hens, 12 of them are either sitting on eggs, or taking care of babies.
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    My chicken coupe and rabbit cages

    We decided we did not want to mix breeds. We figured we would just screw up a good thing, so we stuck with just Australorps. Not really much of a market, we eat them and use them for 4-H. Next year we are going to sell a bunch of them to kids for 4-H. But for now we are just keeping the best...
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    My first AR15 build

    I rather my AR's over my AK's any day. Exactly, my DPMS has over 15k rounds through it and is 100% reliable.
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    My chicken coupe and rabbit cages

    We have about 30 adult black australorps hens and 2 roosters. We also have about 70 young ones, most will be butchered for meat, but some will be allowed to live for laying. We also have geese, ducks, and turkey not in the video.
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    Hatched some bourbon red turkey's

    So far only 2 have hatched.
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    New gosling not standing

    Give him time, ours took a long time to start walking good. Now they are 3 weeks old and running around.
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    duck hatching?

    Seems to be even easier than chicken eggs. We just hatched 9 of them.
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    broody hen

    I had a broody hen that I left in the chicken coupe. When I finally went to move her she was sitting on 36 eggs. Now there is no way she could have hatched that many, but most of the fit under her. Could only see a few on the sides.
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    Giving chicks to a broody hen?

    My neighbor tried putting chicks under a hen that had been broody for a week, the hen killed 9 of the 11 chicks. So I don't know what to tell you.
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    Slime in my water ?

    Get them out of sunlight. Without sun algae won't form.
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    McMurray Chicks - what is your experience with their sexing?

    They did perfect for me. I ordered 50 hens and 4 roosters and I got 4 roosters and 54 hens, all lived. They are great to do business with.
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    Giving chicks to a broody hen?

    I have added chicks to a hen that already had some, but never put chicks under one that hadn't hatched any yet. I actually had 3 broody hens at the same time, they all hatched 12 chicks. But 2 of the decided they didn't want to be moms very long and left the chicks. The other poor hen had 36...
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    how long does it take for a hen to become broody?

    I have about 20 hens that are a year old, only 5 of them have ever went broody. 3 of them have gone broody twice and one has gone broody 3 times. They either will or they won't nothing you can do to make them go broody. That was one of the reasons I picked the Aurstralorps because they do go broody.
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