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    Chicken Tractor

    Quote: Thank you so much! I had chickens when I was a teenager but that was %$#@ years ago! I think I have forgotten a bunch. My 4yo DD LOVES the chickens and counting the eggs!
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    Washingtonians

    Thanks for the welcome Terrascritters! I love your website, especially the part about what to do with old birds. My DH asked what we would do with our hens when the did not lay anymore. I told him that I would build them a new coop and let them keep the horse company. They will not owe us...
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    Chicken Tractor

    Thanks for the input. The grass seems to grow overnite here in Pacific NW Washington. I have the tractor in the areas I hate to mow because the grass grows soooo fast!
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    APHA People - Need Your Help

    I am just a single horse owner, but I have owned a few in my life, so here goes: I like to look for brains first, then disposition, then feet, then confirmation and finally good looks. She looks like she would be an easy ride, a nice sloped shoulder, perhaps a little long in the toe. Her back...
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    Washingtonians

    I am new to the forum and on soggy (today) Whidbey Island. Whidbey is in Puget Sound opposite of Everett and north of Seattle. We have lots of predators here as I have unfortunately come to discover. Coyotes, eagles, raccoons and even otters. I have 5 hens of various breeds: Aeracouna (sp)...
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    How did you come up with your screen name?

    A merging of husband and wife - Shan(on) and glen.
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    Chicken Tractor

    We are new to chickens and have ours in a chicken tractor. We are keeping 5 hens and the tractor is in our back yard which is about 150 x 300 feet. We move the tractor every day so they get fresh greens. Is this adequate?
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    New hens in with the old? Good or bad?

    We had 4 Dominique pullets and the local crafty coyote harvested (?) 2 of them which caused my 4yo DD to become most upset. The sympathetic neighbors gave us three of his hens ( RIR, Plymouth Rock and Aeracona (sp). We put them in with our 2 and after about 2 hours of ruffled feathers they...
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