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    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    We have bought a larger piece of land and are building a new coop there, a few of our ladies have passed (5 years old) so our flock is down from 10 to 6. We will get some new chicks in the spring to get back up to 10
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    everyone is doing well, trying to make the coop blend in and look like less of a trailer. I think next I will build a ramp to block the view underneath
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    The new girls are getting bigger
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    And we are done, mom just needs to paint and decorate the big girls and Lexi are enjoying the spring weather
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    Just need to add the hardware cloth and a ramp to the coop from the run, and paint. Should be done in another evening or two
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    It’s been fun but she needs to go back outside, so what is the solution? I turned to chicken math to solve this problem: Three bantams, a black and a red frizzle Cochin, and a white silkie. Also one normal sized black australorp. Why you ask? Well naturally three bantams are to keep Turd the...
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    We are now at 268 eggs, everyone is doing ok but the polish sisters have started beating up on the silkie, it started during the icepocalypse a few weeks ago (they were inside, laying eggs so not too stressed... lol) They tore her head up pretty bad, mom got it healed up but when we...
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    at risk of being told I don’t know what I’m talking about... it’s more realistically one every day, I want to say she’s missed one day every other week since she started laying
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    a Christmas coop! We are almost to 100 eggs! Our austrawhite popeye is laying 6 a week, both polishes Derek and Hansel are laying 2 a week, and our silkie is somehow cranking out 4 a week! Jelly the easter egger hasn’t laid yet, that we can tell at least. Training is going better than...
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    Just another day in the yard, the girls are loving the cooler weather
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    here we go again! Shouldn’t get much higher than this
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    Well we got a second identical egg today, and caught the austrawhite “Popeye” in the nest box just before hand, so I think she laid the first one too
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    And another tropical storm/ hurricane looms near! Don’t think we need to move the coop this time but we will see how it plays out... more importantly, we got egg #1 today!!! In the nest box Too! We are pretty sure Derek the sickly/runt polish thatwe nursed back to health laid it since she was...
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    we found the same with the nipple waterer, we were putting watermelon on the nipples and they started drinking there, still waiting to pull the conventional waterer until we get a cold front back home safe:
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    New coop, small, street legal :P

    Well there is a hurricane in the gulf so we hauled the coop out! Worked perfectly a quick stop for some seafood! And safe inside the warehouse:
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