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Starting new flock for tick control
Yeah, I really have no idea how many birds I would need to help me out. All the reference material I can find is for egg or meat production (of course keeping pets too!). Hoping to avoid the blunder of building too small of a coop. I've read a bunch about training the guineas to come home, is...- mikiwiki
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Starting new flock for tick control
I really like the Cluckingham Palace design https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=14375 - especially since I may want to relocate the coop after I make other improvements. Also will make a dedicated run for those times I don't want the birds out and about. That will have a wire...- mikiwiki
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Starting new flock for tick control
First of all - this is an awesome forum. I'm learning lots, most of all, that I won't learn everything before I start to make my own mistakes, but I want to minimize them as much as possible. I've got 5 acres, and seemingly billions of ticks. Every time a cats comes it, it's time for the...- mikiwiki
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New here - 25 years since we had chickens
When I was 4 years old, my parents moved from the city to the country. After 4 years in western Sonoma county, they moved to southern county to a house on 5 acres with the requisite horse barn and a "traveling band of gypsy chickens" as my dad called it. So now my husband and I along with our...- mikiwiki
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