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    My Introduction

    I ordered my first chickens since childhood two years ago. A lady gave me some chickens and dogs killed them all but an old red rooster and a game hen. I ordered twelve silver laced winged wyandottes. Some died the following winter and the next spring all of my nice friends and neighbors gave...
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    Found a broody hen with chicks and eggs

    I just found a new hatchling that must have been attacked by one of the 2 brooders. There was nothing going on around 4 but then around 6:30 when changing their water, I noticed this little peeper on it's back with a bloody head. There are 2 babies in with them from last week and still 9 more...
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    OldRedRooster, Hello

    I will.
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    OldRedRooster, Hello

    I have two Rhode Island Red roosters and a thing called a Rosecomb and a little buff looking hen. that run loose until I get their chicken place finished. Dogs killed my other hens and nearly killed the Rosecomb.
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    OldRedRooster, Hello

    I like to sit in the pen and watch them.
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    OldRedRooster, Hello

    I drew it long ago. I always have loved chickens. I used to get those catalogs for years and finally got some Wyandotts.
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    OldRedRooster, Hello

    Thank you.
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    OldRedRooster, Hello

    Thanks for the advice.
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    OldRedRooster, Hello

    Although I helped my mother butcher chickens as a boy and I had 17 chickens and two ducks as a teenager, I feel that I am new to raising chickens. We never had a hen house and I never really kept chickens. I just fed them every evening. Now, I am 62 years old and I have just raised some...
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    What makes a coop "Fort Knox" predator proof?

    You did an awesome job on that. I wish mine was as neatly done. I did the bottom of my fence like yours and my chickens have begun digging holes under the boards on the bottom. The biggest one is about 3" to 4" long and 2" thick. We have lots of snakes, coyotes and other vermin.
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