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    Chicks Piling on top of each other. How to make them stop?

    My chicks that are about 8 weeks old are piling on top of each other since I have moved them out side to their coop. I placed buckets in the corners but it hasn't stopped them. I don't have heat lights on them - I am in Florida and it has be very warm at night. I have lost a couple of chicks...
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    need a duck coop!

    Everyone is right about not spending alot of money on a coop until you make sure that they will go into it. I had my ducks temporarily in a old chicken coop until I built their new house. They definitely would not walk up the ramp so I had to pick them up and put them in everynight. The house...
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    Other Farm Animals

    Kiki Sargent Rascal Zoe Peanut - the baby of the house!
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    Broken Eggs

    Thanks for the info! I haven't seen any signs of mice, so I think that you may be right about them breaking them when getting into the nest.
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    Broken Eggs

    My chickens (26 hens and 1 rooster) have been laying really well the last couple months but the last two times I went to the coop to collect eggs there as been one broken one within the other eggs. It isn't just pecked once, but completely broken and some of it appears to be missing. The only...
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    MAKING $ ON EGGS LIKE CRAZY WOMAN! most you've gotten for a dozen eggs

    I sell my eggs for $4 a dozen or $3.50 with a carton return in Florida. I have people interested in soy free eggs and they are willing to pay $7-$8 a dozen. I bought ducks eggs from another farm and paid $18 a dozen. I sell plants at the farmers market so my customers buy them. I pre sell...
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    What to look for if I want humanely raised chicken to eat?

    Go to your local farmers market and check websites like local harvest. The most important thing once you find a potential meat source is to ask if you can visit their farm. If they don't want you to come out they are probably hiding something. If they do let you come out then you can...
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    Gmo's

    I have done a lot of research on this subject and I agree/disagree with a lot that has been bought up here and it tooks like other posters corrected some of the wrong information so I did not post to debate anything and would rather stay out of it. I have a small farm that I grow vegetables...
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    Some People Just Dont Get It

    It's people like this that give responsible duck owners a bad name. I live in Florida and have had too go through a ton of paperwork through the Florida Wildlife Commission just to own Indian Runner Duck because so many people kept letting there unwanted ducks go into the wild. If people would...
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    Quail Egg Salad

    This is too funny because I just made quail egg salad yesterday. Just curious what is your method of hard boiling?
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    Choice of wire flooring for Coturnix Quail?

    That is what my quail are on. Plus I have a sandbox and twigs/branches in their cage as well.
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    greenhouse into coop

    Yeah if you have the option of the shed I would go with that over the greenhouse...
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    How high can they fly?

    I have a 4' electric fence and I have had a few launch over it. But usually as soon as they do they want back in with the rest of the flock. I would probably go with a 6'-7' fence to be on the safe side - also depending on the types of chickens.
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    greenhouse into coop

    I build a frame of a building that I used for greenhouse. I am in Florida so I put the plastic up on the sides in Oct-Nov and take it off in the spring. I am getting a bigger greenhouse soon, so right now I have quail under the building. I am planning on putting hardware cloth on the building...
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    Comments and Posts....

    I am new to posting on BYC but have been reading the forums for quite a while. Usually I do not post or comment on any forums on any site because of other people. I just wanted to put out a general comment "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." This goes for the...
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