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    Success!

    We’ve been raising chickens for two years now and decided to hatch our own. It’s been so successful. We are at two dozen now with fifteen waiting to hatch. I made an incubator and hatched one and lost one. I have four eggs left in it. We’ve only lost four chickens. One I had to put down...
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    Show me your Runs!...please 😇

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    Solid Surface Roof on Run? Pros and Cons?

    I have a 12x20 run with a tin roof, rusted. Really! We got it from an old farm building that a storm took out.
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    People with more than 10 chickens

    We have an acre in the country in Iowa. We started out about nine months ago with the intent on starting out with a dozen. Then my wife went to a sale with a friend who raises chickens. She came back with fifty! We’re down to twenty-eight and are getting a dozen eggs per day. We give a lot away...
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    Sad day

    I had to put down our first roster we had. He was almost a year old but he lost being alpha and other rosters were picking on him so much that he lost half his weight and even had a bleeding home in his head from being pecked. We’ve been raising chickens for about ten months now. The lessons...
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    Poop boards

    What is PDZ?
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    Opinions on this coop?

    I built my coup in the back of my shed. It’s 12x19 and we’ve had fifty in it at the beginning. We’re not down to thirty which is a good number for it. It’s about six feet tall and completely fenced in with a tin roof.
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    Opinions on this coop?

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    Can a dog and chickens safely coexist in a small backyard?

    We have two Australian Shepard’s and a Shitzu and don’t have problems with them. When we first got started the youngest Aussie would chase them but not hurt then. Our neighbors lab has killed a couple though.
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    Cartoon app

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    Heat or not

    I put in a vent two days ago up high. I have a shed roof without open soffits which is why I put the venting in. I showed a friend the coop today and she said I should close it off so that’s what I’ll do.
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    Heat or not

    That’s what I was thinking.
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    Heat or not

    We just started our chicken adventures. I built this coop which is about 8x10 and open to the north. Just outside of the coop is a 12x19 run with a shed roof covering six feet from the coop out. My question is-should I build a wall and a door to the coop for the winter? I’m in Iowa so it can get...
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    More chicks than planned

    We got the roster for 2.50! He has a deformed beck so he wasn’t sold. I can care less about that so now he has a good home.
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    More chicks than planned

    Here are a few photos of our new babies.
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