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    Does it not balance out?

    Also, if they free range, are you sure some of their eggs aren't being laid in places you don't know about? My birds have free access to food 24/7. I made a huge feeder that holds at least 4 50 pound bags of pellets and I seldom have to fill it up. Their waterer is a 5-gallon bucket with...
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    Walking across my lawn inspired this question

    That was a concern too, but there were very dry. Not anymore, it rained quite hard for about an hour a bit ago.
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    Walking across my lawn inspired this question

    Most of these are maple.... on the edge of my front lawn there and 7 big old maples, one big old birch and one ig oak.
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    Walking across my lawn inspired this question

    It's well into fall here in Maine and a walk across the lawn means walking through a LOT of downed leaves, inspiring my question: could leaves be used in place of shavings in the coop?
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    Starting to get eggs from new girls.

    Well, the egg is easy, the girls are in the dark right now though. The new egg is the small one on the left.
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    Starting to get eggs from new girls.

    I bought 12 chicks the first of May. They are several differing breeds (Leghorn, Brahma, Buff Orpington, Silver-Laced Wyandotte, Welsummer) with two of each breed, except for the Welsummers, I bought four of them. Last week my wife found a very small white egg in the coop where the older birds...
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    Made a stupid mistake this morning

    Early this morning I check on my new babies and noticed a lot of shavings in their water so I decided I should change it (I usually do that when I get home from work). The waterer is one of those plastic domes that hold a gallon or a gallon and a half and has the red bottom where the chicks...
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    Chick integration to outside coop and the flock

    My "teenage" birds (got them May 1) still live in their own coop and run, which is connected to the big hen run. However, they all go out together for a couple of hours most evenings and there has been no issue. Now that a couple of the Welsummers appear almost ready to begin to lay, Henry the...
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    Devestation, i'm mad, heartbroken and i have given up

    If you do someday decide to try it again, I strongly suggest adding a couple of strands of electric fence to your coop. It will quickly convince a dog or other predator that that coops isn't to be messed with.
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    Lost some birds today

    When the fox returns, as I'm sure it will, it may be in for a very unpleasant surprise that goes "BOOM". I don't take kindly to my girls being attacked. Heck, I even have sympathy for Henry, and I hate that bird. Thanks all for your kind words.
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    Lost some birds today

    Lately we have been letting the girls out for a few hours i evening while we are home and working outside. Today, however, I let them out when we got home about 4 pm. Then we went to the store and to deliver some eggs and were gone 60-90 minutes. When we got home again we saw none of the girls...
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    Coop heating options?

    You could use a ceramic heat emitter. They screw in like a light bulb, but they don't make any light. Amazon has them for around $10. They come in different wattages, down as low as 60.
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    What did I get today?

    more pictures
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    What did I get today?

    She sure stood out in the tub at TSC!
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    What did I get today?

    More pictures of (in my opinion) the prettiest one
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