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Building Your Own Chicken Coop
In the spring of 2009 we decided to join a friend in raising chickens for meat and eggs. Quickly we realized we needed housing for the birds and a way to keep them safe. I decided they needed a large building that would...
Construction site are the best place to get free lumber. Most ppl do not realize that the contractors have to pay to dispose of scrap lumber. I got all of the lumber for my coop and run from construction sites.
Great job on the quail pens.
TC
I told mine on Thursday night that they had until the end of the weekend to give me my eggs or they were bound for the stew pot. Needless to say I got my 1st egg Friday afternoon and another this morning. That Stern talk must work...
I got my first egg on Friday, another one today, and I let my (3) 6 month old RIR hens out into the yard with my 8 week old flock of 26, much to my surprise we had no incidents at all...well until the 6 moth old RIR roo met up with our 16 week old black sex link roo...but that too was just a...
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I work with dirt, grades, and such, your problem is:
1. Low Lying Land - you catch runoff water from everywhere
2. Soil Composition - Not sure what you have but almost bet that you have clay, dig down about 6-8 feet and see what kind of soil you have down there. How deep do you dig...
Chickmama, I am just north in Fayetteville, I have enough OSB on hand that I can give you, if you can meet me along I-95. If you can give me a few days I may be able to have you enough 2x4's to build a decent home for your chickens. The feed store here, Southern Gin has poultry netting in a 50'...
Cumberland County NC Library
Sent email and asked to add to our collection. They ordered a few copies of another book I requested so we shall see. Will post back...
TC
trying to finish my page up but every time I try to publish the final change I loose my data, stuff that has already been published and saved. I have tried several times to replace the data and when I publish it I loose even more data. I thought it was an issue with the length of the page so i...