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    Raising Midget White Turkeys in NY?

    Me! I got them as poults from Call Again Farm but, as I'm looking at their website right now, it looks like she's not doing midgets anymore.
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    50 CHICKEN chicken tractor!! Pics and Progress!

    Oh, very nice build! Love the nest boxes, if I may ask - what is the blue material? It looks like it does a great job cushioning the eggs.
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    gardening in chicken/turkey runs - need advice

    Applegal - I am thinking of trying to under seed the corn with white clover. I got some last year from the local feed store but time got away from me last season and so I never got to it when it needed to be done. (Clover needs to be seeded when the corn is at the 2-4 leaf stage.) And thanks...
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    what do you think to this?

    Just a thought - if you're going to keep the green roof concept, drainage will need to be addressed. The article didn't mention drainage and it appears that it would flood in a good rainstorm if it didn't have it.
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    gardening in chicken/turkey runs - need advice

    Thanks, Nevada Sun, and I hope your garden attempt is successful! I found some more information that might be useful to others starting with Pat's write-up on muddy runs: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/how-to-fix-a-muddy-run-chicken-coop and this one which covers several issues with...
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    gardening in chicken/turkey runs - need advice

    Hello, all! I tried to search through past threads to see if anyone else has done this and didn't come up with anything. I would like to build portable pens for my chickens and turkeys this year and move them out of their current areas for the year. The yards have become nasty, muddy, yucky...
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    Midget White Eggs...

    I don't have my Midgets yet but Laura from this place will be putting some eggs in the incubator for me soon. I don't know if she would be willing to ship some eggs to you or not (she will not ship poults), you'd have to ask. She's been great to email with. Good luck!
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    Can a rat fit though chicken wire?

    Quote: Well, or at least they'll try to, depends on how skinny they are. I found one this winter that tried to squeeze it's way through my 1"x2" mesh that I have for the chicken yard. Apparently, it got about halfway through, got stuck and froze to death.
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    hoop house using electrical conduit?

    Quote: Your kidding right???? My waterer's are metal, my feeders are metal, my wire is metal..... That's a new one to me. No, not kidding. Cornell's Ornithology Lab mentions it on their website - not a big mention but someone saw it happen and reported it to them. If your accessories are...
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    hoop house using electrical conduit?

    Greetings, fellow upstate New Yorker! While I don't have experience with building any hoop house yet (it's on my list of things to do), I do have a concern about using bare metal around birds in wintertime. It's been said to not use bare wire to hold up feeders for wild birds as they can end...
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    Eggs shipped in...baby diapers!?!

    I think it's a great idea if you have left over diapers that your child has out grown. I wouldn't go out and buy diapers just for that purpose, though.
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    Fusterated over Chicken Coop!

    Well, could you build it yourself? I had my dad help me with the first coop but I've done the other three myself. My husband certainly had no interest in it and if I wanted chickens, I had to do it myself. My coops aren't marvels of engineering by any stretch of the imagination, but they keep...
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    Free roosters in NY for pick-up only

    Ok, got pics, not the best in the world as they kept moving, but you get the idea: and here's the poish cross:
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    Free roosters in NY for pick-up only

    Eep - you're on the other side of the state from me. I'm in Wayne county, not terribly far from the southern shore of Lake Ontario. None of these are games, they are mixed breed large fowl, with the exception of the Polish cross, he's a bit smaller. I'll try to get some pics up.
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    Free roosters in NY for pick-up only

    How about if I offer to meet part of the way? I have eight of these guys - I would really like to find homes for them, if possible. Two of them are white with red across the shoulders/wings, another two are a golden red, two or three others are charcoal grey/black cherry and the last guy is a...
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