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    Comment by 'jbf16falcon' in article '"Hentirement"'

    I have some about 6 year olds in the flocks. They teach the other younger ones how to make a dust bath in the burn pile ashes (I think that why they all stay lice free in the coop) they scold the young rooster if he does not alert early enough when the hawks are around, they often take on...
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    Help! My wife is mad at me for feeding the chickens pizza!

    Does not hurt them at all. In the pasture they eat things long dead and much worse, like tons of field mice babies, dead birds etc. They are chickens, not your children. Live wild and vicariously through them. Pizza Party On!
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    I was surprised to find a rooster in my brood of ladies...

    I have 2 roosters at least in every pen and 8 pens. The roosters in each grew up together and established a pecking order. There are 12 hens in each pen with them. Everyone gets along for the most part and dominant hens cause more problems than the roosters. They are allowed to raise some chicks...
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    Country Acres Poultry Feed * idiot update *

    It’s Purina’s economical side brand and it’s good and cleaner than most in the price range. I feed about 500 pounds of it a month chicks gain well on the grower crumbles and the pellets are smaller than many other brands and work well in my automatic feeders where some other feeds don’t. Low...
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    Comment by 'jbf16falcon' in article 'How To Fix A Muddy Run Chicken Coop'

    If it’s really muddy I temporarily throw a pallet or two in the run for them.
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    Rooster Training Advice

    That works against every instinct in a rooster. His priority beyond the one everyone knows is to protect his hens. Anything that goes after one triggers an instinctual response to react to protect. The amount of that instinct varys and those that let you walk in an pick up a hen are actually not...
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    Can chickens eat Loquats? Sorry I got the two mixed up on original sub

    Mine love kumquats and other citrus and won’t touch broccoli so I guess it just depends on what they start off on as treats. Citrus has never hurt them.
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    Producer's Pride Defender Chicken Coop

    I fastened my 1/2” hardware cloth with J-clips. It worked well.
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    Dickey or Rite Farm cabinet incubator

    Got the GQF 1502 Digital Sportsman and really like the build and first hatch with it went very well. Bought the humidity kit and glad I did. If you lockdown you need it because the fan and wick pads will empty the water tray in just a little over a day. Not a bad thing for good humidity, as some...
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    Shell sticking to egg

    You might try this method to make the membrane release on fresh eggs: https://www.farmcurious.com/blogs/farmcurious/17599116-how-to-peel-a-farm-fresh-egg
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    Producer's Pride Defender Chicken Coop

    Bottom inside has 2’ high hardware cloth added. There will be 8 hens and their roo (Ameraucanas self-blue) in each end pen/coop and center 10 X 15 will have a coop added outside it, top protected and made into a growout pen. looking at adding another PP and kennel for adding black Ameraucanas...
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    Producer's Pride Defender Chicken Coop

    back side of coops by garden PP&Retriever pen. That side faces South and yes to grow vining plants on, I put 1/2” hardware cloth between the vines/leaves and pen as high as chickens can reach so they don’t eat what they shouldn’t health wise and to insure there is shade that lives lol.
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    Producer's Pride Defender Chicken Coop

    I find it to be the best commercial answer I've found. I live on a creek and have an abundance of every North American predators visiting nightly. No problem so far, my neighbors wish they could say that. I do shut the coop door at night though for my piece of mind. My main add was clipping 2...
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    Producer's Pride Defender Chicken Coop

    Just outside around the coop and run. I want the chickens to scratch and dig in the pen. Yes run is covered and coop door can be open and shut standard from outside the coop and pen if one wants to be extra secure shutting it at night.
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    Producer's Pride Defender Chicken Coop

    I bought one and liked it. I bought another one and the 5 X 10 Retriever Kennel. The Kennel has 6 5’ panels. I spaced the two PP coops 15 feet apart and used 3 panels across the back and three in the front to create a 10’ X 15’ run between the two. I had to buy 8 more of the Kennel panel...
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