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    More than doubling flock size

    Sorry. I’m in Iowa. It’s pretty nice right now now, but summer will be hot and humid and a few winter days will be 10 degrees or more below zero. Hopefully by winter I’ll have a roof over 200 sq ft and a full screen around the area. We had the Eglu 12 foot runs set up, but that seemed small...
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    More than doubling flock size

    Thanks. Yes, the chickens don’t stay in the coops- they’re just for laying and sleeping. I have a 200 sq ft (+, but 200 is the legal limit in town, so it’s 200) run fenced with an electric fence net around it, and the three coops sit in that run. It’s a sand floor and it seems to clean and drain...
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    More than doubling flock size

    (sorry!) I know there are a bazillion posts abut new birds in an existing flock, but I have some unique parameters, so I’m making a new thread. So, my situation has some things that won’t change. My daughter got a purple Eglu coop, which she loves. She had 6 hens, one of which turned out to be...
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    Hello chicken people!

    So glad to be here amongst other chicken keepers! 1) My daughter got chickens about a year ago and quail just after that. We are learning about raising these birds, making mistakes, having successes, and enjoying the ride. I’m a city kid, reluctantly, but you live where your parents raised you...
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