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    Advice for building roost in run.

    Here is a photo of the roosting perches I built. However, you can see that the chooks prefer roosting on the building support...
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    Broody adopting hatchery chicks (behavior)

    How did you keep the chicks warm while waiting to put them under the hen at night?
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    Intentionally wetting sand in coop

    I am in North Central Florida. I have an open-air coop with a bare floor. Yes, it has been very dusty this summer and fall (lack of rain). So I spray down the coop floor when I do a monthly clean-out. In addition to keeping the dust down, it makes the bugs come up and the chooks get free...
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    Winter is coming...What is left on your to-do list?

    We are in North Central Florida and we have an open air coop. Having said that, we can get a few weeks of pretty cold weather so I put up tarps before a cold front. I do not use any kind of heat. The coop faces south east so they get the morning sun. I's in the 80's today.
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    Attaching Hardware Cloth to Run

    Here is a photo of our setup. It is two chain link dog kennels joined together. We attached hardware cloth over the chain link using hog nose pliers/rings. We extended the HWC apron out 24" from the bottom of the run and covered the ceiling with HWC before the tin roof was added. Probably...
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    Ocala Florida area anyone?!?!?!?

    I live 20 min north of Ocala
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    New Chicken Mom Intro & Question

    I think the silver laced are prettier.
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    Broken eggs under broody hen

    UPDATE: Six eggs hatched sucessfully. Two of the remaining eggs did not. So now we have six healthy baby chicks and a very happy mama. Thanks for encouraging me to leave well enough alone.
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    FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

    We live north of Reddick
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    Have the chickens, now I need a coop. Please help!!!

    We used hog nose rings to attach the hardware cloth to the metal wire of the coop.
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    STORE CLEARANCE- 2023 Calendars Buy One Get One Free!

    Just ordered one for me and one for my friend.
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    Help me name my barred rock

    Barbara
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    Broken eggs under broody hen

    Thanks for the reply. Sounds like I did everything you suggested. I'm just going to keep an eye out for ants. I have a small empty coop that I plan to move her and the eggs into so that the other hens will leave her alone. Sounds like we have a chance for some biddies!
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    Broken eggs under broody hen

    Our broody hen has been setting on a clutch of eggs for a week. When I checked on the nest this morning another hen was on her nest. I chased her out and to my dismay two of the eggs were broken and the nest material was slimy from the broken eggs. I moved the unbroken eggs to another box...
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    Chain Link Dog Kennel to Ft Knox Covered Open-Air Coop/Run Combo - Build Suggestions?

    Hog nose rings. Also short pieces of wire where the hog nose rings could not be used.
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