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    Would you feed this to your chicken?

    I just used a plastic Chinese food container, but a Tupperware or similar container with a loose fitting lid would work. If it has a tight lid, maybe leave one corner cracked slightly open for ventilation. You'll want the tree dirt to stay about as damp as you found it in the tree and not dry...
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    Would you feed this to your chicken?

    The large grubs in rotting wood are likely stag beetle larvae. The beetles lay eggs in already dying trees, so the grubs really aren't killing the tree. They'll live in there for years eating deadwood until they turn into adults. I collected some of these from a rotten tree I cut down last year...
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    Controlling sparrows they spread disease and lice.

    http://www.sialis.org/hosp.htm#monofilament So, I haven't used this technique around the chickens yet, but I've used it on my bird feeder with great results. I made a halo out of wire and hung 4 thin wires weighted with washers around my tube feeder, and the house sparrows completely stopped...
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    Water for winter?

    Last winter I used a cement mixing tub as a pond for the ducks. Since the short sides are sloped, it was easy to drag out of the pen and dump the ice out of whenever it froze. The plastic never cracked even if it froze solid overnight. I had to break the surface ice a few times a day if it was...
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