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    I kid you not, it was a staged INVASION....

    It began innocently enough... Sunday breakfast with our first eggs - assiduously collected, one at a time, over the course of the week. I chopped onions and heated sausage while DH made the coffee and shredded some cheese. When it was all cooked we decided some toast would round it out nicely...
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    Brentwood farm lost 20 chickens and 10 turkeys to dog attack

    In case anyone is interested, here is a little resolution: The Bentwood dog owner now understands the laws protecting livestock a little better and is no longer accusing anyone of a brutal murder. However, her tune has changed and she now blames an unspecified 'neighbor's dog' as the reason her...
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    Brentwood farm lost 20 chickens and 10 turkeys to dog attack

    I was curious if anyone knew any details about this incident? The news is playing this out like he is a brutal murderer for legally killing the dogs that were destroying his flock... http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9270163#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-9270163 and...
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    What do you wish you had known before you got your chickens

    L O L this is a very funny line to read. So sorry, I dont mean to laugh at your flock, as I am sure it's a total pain for you. And believe me I know, I have been there with the Lemon Drop Kid (aka beautiful and evil roo).
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    What do you wish you had known before you got your chickens

    Wish I had known that it is almost impossible to get a local coop builder to make a small doghouse coop to specifications. Seems like every maker I reach out to inflates the price to ridiculously insane numbers because the word "chicken" is attached to it.
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    Wire coop floor?

    He speaks the truth. I made a huge mistake with my first coop and went with a local company here in Marin. :/ The rustic coop is cute to look at, but the wire floor is a nightmare to clean - not to mention all that precious chicken manure is lost to the washing method. Twenty minutes of power...
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    Reversed Boys vs. Girls!

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    The 5th "count as high as possible before the staff posts" thread

    50!!
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    Revisit question: how to get young pullets to use nest boxes ?????

    This is exactly what we used to do when I was a kid. When you dont have an older layer showing them the ropes they need a little guidance sometimes. Just plop the eggs and a few fake ones into your nestboxes and let the girls see the eggs in the box. Hopefully the get the clue that this is the...
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    How to get the hens to use the roosts

    You know, I actually posted about this very same problem about a month ago. I got pretty much the same advice. I hadn't worked with chickens since I was a kid, so despite having had a lot of birds in my world, I have never had a nest box to deal with. Their chickeny behavior was perplexing to me...
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