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    Disease management

    I have 25 new chicks on order from Estes and I want to know if anyone sees any flaws in my thinking... I free range (currently two) flocks of egg layers and each has their own portable coop to spend the night. (LGD for critter control, just a bit of supplemental cracked corn, flocks choose...
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    Winter water in tractor without electricity?

    We really don't get that much snow. If we do, it seldom lasts more than a few days. We do have MUD and look forward to cold enough weather that you stop sinking up to your ankles. I am letting my grass grow a bit longer so I have plenty for them to graze on all winter, though it gets pretty...
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    Winter water in tractor without electricity?

    Please send ideas/feedback: I have an unlimited supply of milk jugs/nipples/ free heated water (milk jugs placed next to woodstove) and NO electricity in my plan for my mobile chicken tractor. My theory to get us through the winter is to place a nipple in the CAP of the milk jug and invert it...
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    calling any one from missouri

    My baby chicks are doing great. They arrived a day early: 25 (got 27) production red pullets, 3 (got 4) easter eggers, one PR roo. All alive for 5 days despite frequent toddler terrorism until yesterday when DH had chicken duty while I am at work and the water fell on one PR pullet and squish. A...
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    calling any one from missouri

    Hey zooarch, I am just a few miles NE of Collumbia out in the country where there is no 6 bird limit. I should receive 30 birds tomorrow...unless they come today. I ordered a few setting hens to breed my own layers and thought I might sell a coop/hen/equip combo for the "cityfolk" interested in...
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    Qs about tractors: size, moving, saving grass, dust, etc.

    My experience was : 8 Production Reds in a 4'x12' tractor that I moved every 36 hours...morning one day, eve the next day, skip a day then the next morning. This would effectively mow the lawn, but three days later regrowth of dark green made it look very stubbly. This was on Fescue...can't kill...
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    Dust bath in a chicken tractor?

    A few years ago I kept 10 hens in a daily moving tractor around the yard because I HATE to clean a coop. Now I am reading so much about dust baths and controlling lice and mites. If they had lice/mites, I did not know it, not even the second laying year. I never heard any of the hens complain...
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