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    Hawk issues..how do i stop them?

    I'm stealing this idea!!!!! Lost two girls in a week and another last month. Daughters and Mom are devastated!
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    I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS. PLYMOUTH ROCK GONE WITHOUT A TRACE? What ate her?

    Not sure about Ohio, but here in Indiana it is legal for property owners to shoot nuisance coyotes. As long as other ordinances do not preclude it. My neighbors and I keep the coyote population tamped down pretty good. We have had a good resurgence in the populations of rabbits and...
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    Chicken coop roof, overhang and construction methods

    Hereis one of my Siamese roosters. He has a brother not pictured
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    Can I use a small barn as a coop?

    We repurposed an old minibarn. I had to build new doors because the old ones rotted off.
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    Shallow depth no-waste feeder

    We added another block after this picture was taken. I noticed that the girls were dragging crumble out of the feeder. Added a 2" block and it seems to be the perfect height.
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    watering ducks and chickens in a coop during the winter

    I am trying to plan on how to water our ducks and chickens inside the coop in the winter. I like the horizontal watering nipples for the chickens, but I don't think that the ducks will use it. The ducks are so messy, I don't want a big bowl for them to splash in. Any suggestions?
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    I think that we lost a chicklet to an owl

    our run is an old pasture area 100' x 300', so covering it is prohibitive
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    Shallow depth no-waste feeder

    I wanted to build a shallow depth feeder that I could put against the wall of the coop to protect it from the weather. I remembered a container for holding charcoal briquettes at the home center and decided to make one out of it. It is designed to keep charcoal dry while sitting beside your...
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    I think that we lost a chicklet to an owl

    We came home a couple hours after dark and went to close up the coop. My daughter counted the flock and noticed that one was missing. This girl (easteregger) had gotten into a habbit of jumping the fence, so we got out the flashlights and looked for her, to no avail. I said that hopefully...
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    Any way to change the number of posts per page?

    I would like to have more than 10 posts per page. Like 100/page. It takes forever to switch pages with my slow internet, so more posts per page works better for me. I am on other boards that this is a setting under your account. Thanks! Scott
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    Chickens won't go into coop at night

    Did you "home" them in the coop for several days before releasing them into the run? Then they look at the coop as their familiar safe space and will return at night.
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    Should a person crow at a rooster?

    my daughters crow back at our rooster all the time. The neighbors cant tell the difference
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    Your experience with Ideal Poultry

    NorthTexasWink, I agree about the Ameraucanas. Both Rural King and Ideal called their birds Ameraucanas. But according to this site, they are both brown easter eggers. I am only having them for a backyard flock, so it really doesn't matter.
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    How to attach rafters?

    You can also just toenail the rafters into a double top plate. Hurricaine ties are designed to keep the roof rafters tied to the walls in high winds. This only works well when the walls are tied to the ground, otherwise the whole thing can blow away.
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    Your experience with Ideal Poultry

    Excellent! I purchased from them to be able to get pullet rouen ducks instead of the straight run ducks from the farm store. I also bought a few more pullet chicks to round out the flock and take up some more space in the box. One duck didn't thrive after shipping and died, but they promptly...
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