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    I live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at 9200' above sea level. This is my first experience raising chickens. Here are some images of my first coop, not bad for a girl!
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    Buff orpingtons

    It did not work when I feather sexed my two last year - ended up with one pullet and one roo.
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    Chickens... Altitude Question

    Hi! I live at 9200' altitude and my chickens are just fine so they should be fine at 10,000' in a plane.
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    ideas on a pvc wire run

    Here is the one I built: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/4hpoultry/t02_pageview/Hoop_House.htm I used hardware cloth instead of the netting and built a door at the end with more pipe. Hope this helps!
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    best brand of chicken feed?

    I use Egg Maker by Manna Pro and get 2-3 eggs per day from 3 pullets throughout this past winter. I get it from my local Ace Hardware store.
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    Nipple waterers

    They should not leak. The drill bit you used was probably too large.
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    This BR has me stumped!

    Interesting, 5 weeks ago everyone thought he/she was a pullet! Anyone else have any thoughts?
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    This BR has me stumped!

    Well, using that post, the chick with the well defined head spot and black legs turned out to be a roo (using the guidelines in that post, it was supposed to be a girl). The one in question was a dark chick, black legs, smaller head spot.
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    This BR has me stumped!

    At first I thought Sue Ellen was a girl but now I'm not so sure. At 3 days old (the one on the left in each picture): At 3 weeks old: At 6 weeks old (the one in the back is a roo for sure and same age as Sue Ellen in front): At 11 weeks old: Any thoughts on gender? No roo...
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    Caught on camera

    The top of the nest box lifts up. There is a padlock type latch to secure the box. The chicks are still too young for eggs but I hope this set up works OK. As for the next step, there are way too many fox in the neighborhood to trap. There are many neighbors that feed them also so they are...
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    Caught on camera

    The camera is on an infrared head sensor and will take pictures only when it senses heat. The pictures it took was the fox and me entering and leaving the run and my dogs. I can't leave my dogs out 24/7 because there are mountain lions in the area and they will get eaten, they bark and the...
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    Caught on camera

    It is the Wildgame Innovations ir2. Here is the website for it: http://www.wildgameinnovations.com/products/ir2.html It was bought at the Bass Pro Shop for around $50. By the way, it was a fox.
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    Caught on camera

    My DH bought a wildlife game cam the other day and set it up near the coop and run. I checked out the pictures today and found these: The daylight picture was half an hour after I was there feeding the chicks. Thanks to posts read here on BYC, my coop and run are predator proof (so far)...
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    Afraid to free range - with good reason

    I live in the mountains of Colorado and have a lot of fox in the area. I was outside today at 4 pm and let my 7 week old chicks out of their run to free range. We have very high grass, shrubs, tress, etc. in the yard and I was sitting on the ground. A fox came within 10 feet of me, I stood up...
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    My First Coop!

    All of the outside doors have the latches where you can put a padlock through. Right now they are secured with carabiners.
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