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    Infertile - Sterile - why??

    My flock has aged pretty well with rooster 4 years old and several hens. First 2 years we worked with a local school supplying eggs to incubate both years I rotated out old hens for chicks. Last spring, the 3rd year, none of them hatched so I tried a batch at home and none hatched. Started...
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    Snakes - Waaaaaay Too Many Snakes

    It is awesome to have chickens that do this!! I think it shows that no matter how much we have taken them from nature their natural instincts are still there. If someday this country has such a financial crash that things come to a standstill and commercial food is no longer available it is...
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    Snakes - Waaaaaay Too Many Snakes

    The only snakes I ever get rid of are poisonous and for my neck of the woods that is the rattler. The others I thank for hanging around my coop. Free feeding your flock means tons, TONS of mice. Now we don't have Hanta Virus in our area but others here might so mice are bad. Snakes -...
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    Water nipples

    I've wanted to try the nipples but we get about 3-4 months of freezing weather so I haven't justified it yet. I'll try to describe the set-up we use for freeze protection. We have a hose running from the faucet to an automatic waterer in a shallow 5 gallon container. The container is totally...
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    How to turn the bare dirt run into a planted run

    I know there must be plants out there that can survive a chicken run. I want vines on the fence to provide shade and I'd love if they produced food for my girls to snack on. I would love to start varieties of greens that will seed. My hens are typically only confined to the run in the winter...
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