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    Chicks Don't Get the Mama Pad (or, how to deal with a meanie)

    I placed a puppy pad over the top of mine, it draped down over the sides and back. With it being open in the front i think they felt more secure.
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    His face in the net 😂😂 its a cross between shock and "how rude"
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Frost advisory for my area tonight. Time to turn the furnace on and make some soup. Stay warm everyone!
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    Question for those of you with poop boards

    Thank you all for the input!!!!
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    Question for those of you with poop boards

    i should also mention i do not have a garden or compost pile
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    Question for those of you with poop boards

    What do you do with the poop you scoop from them? Ive looked through a bunch of threads and havent read it anywhere yet. Do you Throw it out in the yard? keep a pail and empty that when it gets full? Walk the scoop out to the grove and toss it? i dont use poop boards but i do use the deep...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    IT is extremely right now, but i love my job so it makes it easy to do. We got hit with Boxelder bugs about two weeks ago, worse than i have seen them in years! You are definitely in a beautiful part of the state even with the Asian beetles 🙃
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    I checked out the thread you tagged, that had a lot of information and different ideas. THANK YOU! i can get a photo this weekend, my husband and i run a grain elevator in SW MN so this time of year i am luck if i see our place in the daylight once a week. the gap isnt so much a hole but more...
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    Are these eggs still good?

    Thank you! That's what I was thinking. Hubby is skeptical but that's fine, either I'll have a turkey omelette everyday this weekend or I won't :p
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    Are these eggs still good?

    I have a turkey hen I recently was gifted from a neighbor. The first egg she layed was in the coop, as they were locked in the coop/run all weekend. Long story short, now that they are free ranging again I couldn't catch her in the act. I just found the nest with 6 eggs in it. So since the 3 of...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    wondering if you all could give me a few opinions on my coop for the winter. this will be my first winter with them. they are in an old chicken coop that was here on the property when we bought the farm. it is made from solid lumber but some of them are just warn away for the wind and weather...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    if you run whole frozen tomatoes under warm/hot water while they are frozen the skins slide right off 🙃 if i was reading that right you just threw them in soups then had to fish out the skins?
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Just lurking and Reading through past messages. HELLO EVERYONE!
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    help finding heated top fill watered

    I did find one and in the size I wanted. It has been a lifesaver! Here's the link to the one I found...
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    Weird flock issues, is something wrong with my yard?

    I don't have much to offer as far as your girls getting sick. Except maybe it is something in the water? are you on well water? city water? I am not experienced by any means, as this is my first time having chicks. But i opted to not use the medicated feed and I use CHICKEN ELIXIR daily in my...
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