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    What's a good Canopy or top for Chicken Run???

    The bird netting for fruit trees works great. We lost 1 rooster to a hawk when the run had no top. Stapled the netting to the coop, streched it over to the top of the 6' run fence, and sewed it as needed with 60# fishing line, about a month ago a Hawk was sitting on the ground about 1' from the...
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    Letting hen raise chicks ?

    This girl is a sitter ! We have 4 boxes for 12 hens, the other hens don't appear to be bothering her. Any time we get close she makes "purring noise" and her feather stand up, so we have not looked under her. We are still collecting eggs from the other box's. I was planning in closing in the...
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    Letting hen raise chicks ?

    New here We (10 year old Daughter) have 1 rooster 13 hens in a 8'x12' coop with 4 nesting box's we have hatched 2 chicks in an icubator, hatched a duck in the incubator. Now one of the hens is sitting on eggs in a nesting box, and we want to just let everything happen natural. 1) do we leave...
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