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    How many homeschooling families do we have on BYC?

    I'm calling social services on each of you. How will they get socialized? Won't they miss things like riding the bus to school and prom? How will they ever know what it's like to go to the bathroom in a stall without doors if they don't go to public school? Why keep your kids at home when...
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    I need to know EVERYTHING

    Advice #1 -- Build your coop THEN order chicks. Advice #2 -- Craigslist. Old sheds. Advice #3 -- Craigslist. Old camping trailers.
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    Placement of coop around house--help please

    I can improve this sage advice, sage though it be. Which way does the wind blow? Chickens aren't nearly as smelly as some might think, but neither are they a field of lilacs... so we deliberately put ours to the north and slightly east. Rarely, in the summer does the wind blow toward the...
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    TSC Minimum Chick Limit

    State law is 6 in NY -- it's not TSC. My local farm store sold me a couple because that's all I wanted and she already knew I had purchased 10 the week before. TSC probably has less of that small town common sense flexibility (big company, big insurance policies, big law suits). It does make...
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    Minor crossbeak

    ours got worse as she got older. we weren't worried till we noticed that she was essentially starving. she'd frantically mash her face into the feed but she wasn't getting enough -- so much smaller than the others. we read a bunch of strategies for correcting it, found none compelling, and...
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    Psychotic Chicks. Tell me about temperment...

    I gave 23 of our eggs to a friend and schoolteacher who hatched 20 of them! They are purebred RIRs and RIR mutts w/ either brahma, black star, or ? They are all, of course, simply lovely, except for the fact that they are the most uptight, angry, active, boisterous, roostery acting chicks on...
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    Coop Door - Open from Inside or Outside the Coop?

    My design is brilliant if I do say so myself (though I'm sure I learned it from this site). Guillitine door so it slides up on the inside, but I have a rope attached so that I can walk in the coop entry (not in the coop itself) and open and close the door w/o getting poopy. If you're talking...
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    What are the odds? Creating some Rhode Island Reds!

    I have a friend who wants to hatch out some eggs for a school project. I, of course, have eggs. Question #1. I have 16 hens and one very busy RIR Roo (if you know what I mean). What are the odds that the eggs I collect are fertilized? I've read that I can't know for sure, short of opening...
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    TSC Plastic Waterer leaks. Sigh

    So I went to get a metal can w/ plans to build a heater (light bulb cookie tin version) and when I went to by the tin heater I realized that is was just going to be a whole lot easier and essentially the same price to buy one of those massive heated doggie bowls. i'll have to add water a bit...
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    TSC Plastic Waterer leaks. Sigh

    It's not the chickens bumping it (they do), it's a slow steady drip drip around the seal between the white tank and the red base (it's the 3 1/2 gallon waterer. It got especially bad when I tried to put a floating watering puck in there, but it leaks w/o it. Leaks when hanging so I put it on...
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    Wood sealer on interior of coop?

    Fumes? Trust me, if their own fumes aren't lethal, nothing is!
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    Need help making a 8x4 coop!

    How about building a replica of Monticello? How about some thing arts and crafts? Maybe a replica of the Googenheim? Or google "chicken coop" then hit images.
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    How much was your coop to build?

    I deliberately refused to keep track. Initial plans to move a shed fell apart (when my mover said the shed would fall apart) and we, of course, already had the chickens. So I had to get to work and so I figured it was just better not to know. I'm a real tightwad and I'm sure I would still be...
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    how do you build a chicken copp step by step? help!!!!!

    Here are some questions you need to ask: How much money do you have? Will you bid out architects? How much money do you have? Do you want the structure to be LEED certified? Are you thinking of a postmodern design? How much money do you have? Chickens are not fussy. Keep them dry. And if...
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    solar heat from pop cans...

    I agree that aluminum is a good "absorber," but my question (which still remains unanswered) is, do you need to have the tubular chambers (cans or dryer vent). Can't see how that provides any advantage. If it's just about turbulence, you could smash the cans and nail them to the wall. Or cut...
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