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    Leaves and bougainvillea flowers for bedding?

    Hi there, We decided to get chickens and being give to over thinking over designing and under acting, i decided the best way to force some action was to aquire the chickens. 3 weeks ago I picked up 22 3 week old scraggly looking chicks. Well I got the coop portion to a habitable state yesterday...
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    Roosts

    I'm busy building my coop still and being under a bit of self imposed pressure I need to make the best of the off time I have. Yesterday right in the middle of peak motivation, load-shedding kicks in (the government power infrastructure is ailing so they switch off the power for 2 hours/day)...
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    Hi from Cape Town

    Thanks for all the tips so far. The African sun is pretty harsh so I have a solid roof planned then waterproof shade cloth of the run section. OK so Hardware Cloth is called welded wire mesh here, you guys had me there for a moment Luckily no Racoons, foxes or bears here just dogs, cats and...
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    Hi from Cape Town

    Wow that was quick. Thanks for all the great tips. Sourcing the birds is proving to be a challenge but not being too hasty to jump at the 1st brother you come across on gumtree does seem to be wise. There is a local source that seems to get recommendations from unrelated people. Going to make a...
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    Hi from Cape Town

    Hey everyone, we are gearing up to start up our first flock. Now that the Aquaponics system is running itself it's time to add. I want to go for a static run, but there are plenty of things that y'all would do differently if you did it again - that's the stuff I need to know. Regards Neil
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