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    Sponsored Post Nestera Coop Giveaway! Total worth $1595

    I’d say ease of cleaning. When you can keep equipment clean easier then it tends to last a long time.
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    Sponsored Post Nestera Coop Giveaway! Total worth $1595

    I love the design, it looks like it would make a perfect chicken tractor for our garden this winter….this is something my husband and I have been researching to do with our silkie chicks this winter…let them scratch around in the garden space over winter (it’s a space that’s 100x100)through...
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    Dominant vs lower chicken laying

    It sounds like they have a good setup! It could be the winter season making it slightly harder for them to be on a good laying schedule..or it just could be they will do what they want when they want lol I had several nest boxes once upon a time but my younger ladies were sleeping in there...
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    Chickens getting a little wild...out of the coop several nights

    Hmm there’s a lot you can do..but in my experience a flighty chicken is gonna be a flighty chicken until she gets too fat to do so. For me, as a rule I don’t keep flighty chickens....too many things here to eat them aside from me! How old are yours and what breeds do you have? Some are just far...
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    Dominant vs lower chicken laying

    Hmm interesting. I have several chickens who think they’re the “dominate” lady of the coop. They aren’t. They all seem to lay on their own schedule. My ladies are taking a break on their laying of eggs right now. Also, what type of feed if any are they on? They do need to up protein once they...
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    Can i hatch quail eggs in chicken egg trays?

    And for reference we have the hovabator 1588 model.
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    Can i hatch quail eggs in chicken egg trays?

    Yep. You sure can...well depending on your incubator. The one my husband and I used we’ve done it twice. Just place the quail egg as: small end of the egg down, and the big end up. My husband just mentioned that quail eggs can be stored at room temp for up to a week before they are incubated...
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    Building a compost pile in run area?

    We have two stalls set up inside of our coop/run area. We muck out their actual coop and place it in one of the stalls. My ducks and chickens both love it when the compost pile is freshly raked and in a tall pile. They love to play king of the mountain!! All edible kitchen scraps go onto the...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got.....none....although I think my buff brahma aptly named Walnut has one in the box. We recently switched up the hen box....2 of my girls who are currently laying...in response immediately went into mount....... and my other two sometimes lay....sometimes don’t. Walnut is persnickety about...
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    Anyone good at analyzing foot prints to identify predators?

    That is exactly what I was thinking. I know young hawks will take a small piece with them...mostly because they’re practicing which sounds sad...but young hawks, especially males prostrate (best word I could come up with) when they make a kill....sorry about your duck....I hate when I lose them...
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    my dog needs help and idk what to do...

    Good luck with your pup! Hopefully you can get some answers soon...to add my two cents I had a dog once upon a time who had two pups on me two weeks after I found her. This girl had no belly no teats.....nothing. I had her for two weeks and literally woke up to her going into...
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    Do Silkies roost? How do they sleep? How can I set it up?

    Oh silkies. I love that breed. That’s what I’m switching to my next go round (I have 13 chickens of several varieties) it will take them a little while before they are big/strong enough to hop onto a roost. Agreed with the other posts on holding off on a nest box until you know if they are male...
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    Colour change?

    Might help to up her protein too. Broody and molting are hard on them, and as was mentioned before, egg laying can stop until they get their body back into a normal rhythm. I had to do some research on it this summer as one of my black langshan went broody (I got nervous!) we let her do her...
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    Went to tsc today

    Yup. I fully agree with that. Scratch grains are how I get my stinkers back in the coop when they’ve decided to sneak out on non foraging days (since we live in lovely AZ, we get to plant and grow things through these winter months) so they don’t eat my new starts. I also use it as a tool for...
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    Went to tsc today

    Bahahaha yes I would absolutely love it if my ladies could actually figure that out!! They recently got a new nest box....the jury is still very much put on it. Picky...picky...picky. I haven’t been able to track laying patterns/times yet. They laid all through the winter here...all spring...all...
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