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    Hitchhiker chickens

    Yesterday was the second time I've had an enterprising hen jump into the bed of my parked truck and hitch a ride into town with me. First time we went over 30 miles, much of it @ 75mph. Eating my breakfast, I hear people laughing and pointing, so I look out the diner window and see one of my...
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    Bully in the brooder box

    Thank you all!
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    Bully in the brooder box

    The box is 4'x2', 18" tall with a wire cover. Light is 125 watt heat lamp, white in color. They were all sold to me as pullets, but I'm no good at sexing before a couple of months go by.
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    Bully in the brooder box

    We got a new batch of 9 pullets two weeks ago, they're about 3.5 weeks old now. 2 BR's, 2 RIR's, 2 "Amerecaunas", and 3 Polish top hats that are a week younger. Yesterday I came in to find a bit more of a ruckus than usual in the brooder room, and to my dismay I found two of the younger...
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    He's finally getting started!

    So where are the birds now?! And how many?
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    So much poop! How to manage?

    I started off with sand in my coop because I'd read how great it was. I hated it. I built a giant kitty litter scoop out of a pitchfork and some screen to sift it out, but I always ended up mixing the poop into the sand while sifting, and had to sift the same sand multiple times to get it...
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    How to build bird-safe electric fence?

    I'm going to begin installing perimeter fencing around almost half of my property, roughly 5 acres and 1500 feet. Right now we have 18 guineas and 15 chickens that all free range unless I'm going to be gone all day. We have 4 ducklings and 3 poults that will eventually join the others for...
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