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    Video of Chickens in our Garden

    We decided to let our Chickens do the tilling and fertilizing this year. Worked like a charm! Here is a little video of the birds in action.
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    Our Peas Roosting on Cars (Video)

    That's what we did. Its a terrible shame though .... to take a bird used to roaming and lock them in a cage. I think I'd rather find them a new home than make them live in a coop/run. It was so wonderful to see them free ranging, roosting in trees, finding their own food. Its how they were...
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    Our Peas Roosting on Cars (Video)

    Our two hens and one male usually roost up in trees right above our driveway .... which makes a mess and annoys me. So just to spite me, they have taken to roosting on the roof of my Jeep. And just recently they started flying across the street and roosting on our neighbors house .... that...
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    Video of a chick hatching

    This was our first round of hatching eggs from our own chickens. It was a great experience and all of the chicks are doing very well.
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    Short Video of Hen Laying an Egg

    We went into the coop the other day to gather eggs and caught our hen Joy right in the act.
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    Video tour/update of our backyard birds

    Thanks. We like it here a lot. Its funny how the flock just keeps growing .... a cat here, a hen there, a could guineas etc etc etc We are all ready thinking about adding another building/coop.
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    Video tour/update of our backyard birds

    Thanks for the nice comments! My wife knows all the breeds, and she has them all named. She is forever reminding me who is who We are pretty happy with the peas and they spend a lot of time free ranging, even at night. They seem to be very hearty birds and love roosting up in trees and on...
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    Video tour/update of our backyard birds

    It was a nice (but cold) day so I took some video of our birds.
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    We brought home our new peacock (video)

    My wife found a nice peacock on Craigslist for $65. We picked him up today and he is awesome! Here is a short video of our new guy getting used to his home. We will hopefully have him and our three peahens free-ranging full time in a month or so .... maybe less if the new dude gets...
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    Using basic chicken wire - trick to stop digging (video)

    Here is a short video we did to show how we've gotten great results with using basic chicken wire on our coop. Heavier duty wire would be nice, but its not necessary. We also used some wire on the ground to prevent predators from digging under the run.
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    Short Video of our new coop and run

    Don't wait. Get a couple of hens and a small coop. They will be very quiet and almost anyone enjoys seeing a chicken pecking around in the yard. It does't cost much for a small setup and its still loads of fun.
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    Short Video of our new coop and run

    You are correct. We are working toward getting the peafowl to free range full-time. They are perfectly happy and safe roosting in trees and on roof tops so we would like them out of the coop, but they grew up in the coop and have become attached to it. We've locked them out of the coop a few...
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    Short Video of our new coop and run

    Good question. Its pretty easy to put your fingers through the mesh to open the windows .... but our windows are pretty light weight. I would start with the mesh on the inside .... you can always move it.
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    Short Video of our new coop and run

    Hi folks, We've had chickens for two years now. We recently moved to a house in the country and built a great new coop. Here is a short video your of the coop and an introduction to our birds (and the dogs as well). We are super pleased with how the coop turned out. Let me know if you...
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