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    Kellys Koop

    Finally "Kelly's Koop" is completed, and we moved the "girls" outside. They were happy to have all that room after their 45"L x 45"W x 28"H brooder. The coop footprint is 8' x 8'. Sometime soon I am adding a covered run to the front of the coop. I'm planning on making it 16' L x 8' W. About...
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    The two day old chicks arrived this morning (3/1/09).... 3 Ameraucanas 3 Silver Leghorns 3 Dominiques 3 Partidge Cochins 5 Speckeled Sussex 6 Black Australorps 1--guess what I am We are playing "what breed am I"? Some are easy, others, not so much!
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    How To Scare The Be-Jesus Out of Your Chickens!

    That's funny! We give our chickens watermelon in the heat of the summer and they love it, they will climb all over each other to get at it. If it is sliced up, so I found out. A coworker had bought a watermelon from a woman selling them outside the gate at the plant last summer. He put it in...
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    Why All The "Junk"?

    When I built our first coop 3 years ago, I used redwwood lumber that had been discarded at our local landfill. We had planned on getting chickens that spring and had been looking at building a nice coop on the cheap. On a landfill run I noticed all this redwood from a deck that someone had...
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    How early do your chickens leave the coop? light therapy?

    Our girls are out at 4:00 am every morning.I have a string of white Christmas LED lights strung through the hen house on a timer. This comes on at 4:00 am, and provides enough light to get the girls and their Roo up and moving and help to keep the egg production up. The timer is set to shut off...
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    What kind of shoes do you wear out to the chickens?

    Wife bought me a pair of knock off crocks that I keep at the back door. They are my coop shoes and are great cause you can just slip them on and off.
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    A CALL OUT for responsible pet ownership! Unwanted roos, ducks, etc.

    Beekissed, Thank you for posting this, I totally agree with you. We researched raising chickens long and hard before we got our first flock 2 years ago. We had a plan on what to do with roo's, extra birds, sick and old hens, etc. Last year I had to put down my first sick and dying hen, it took...
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    Roo doing what a Roo is suppose to do!

    Thor will actually give his treats to his girls. He really is a pretty good Roo when it comes to his girls, It's funny to watch him gather them up at night to roost. He's from this years brood so he is young and learning how to be a good Roo to his girls. He seems to be turning out just fine.
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    Roo doing what a Roo is suppose to do!

    We have a flock of two year old hens that we raised from fluff balls, and a flock that we got this past Feb at the local feed store. We purchased two Modern English game hens hoping to get a hen and a roo. Well we ended up with 2 roo's from the game hens. I keep one roo in with our flock of...
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    when do leghorns start laying????

    We got our first eggs from ours at around 18 weeks.
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    Fly control

    Well, there were a bunch of fly's in there when I got back from town and the coop was clean then. So I don't know? At least I have a fresh smelling coop for right now!
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    Fly control

    We have had some high temps recently, 100+ temps. I've noticed that we have had tons of fly's in and around the coop. I bought a bale of 3 way (oats, wheat and grasses) on the way home last night. Went out at 6:00 am this morning to beat the heat to clean out the coop's. At first I thought my...
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    How loud do banty roosters crow?

    We had two silkie roo's got rid of them 3 weeks ago, they were loud. Have two modern English Game hen roo's and they are pretty loud, and crow all day. Nothing like being inside the coop with one of the boy's and he decide's to let loose with a crow.
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    My New "Quaker" Coop!

    AWESOME! Great job!
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Since we had 100 + temps today, they got lots of watermelon, some blueberries, and strawberries.
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