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  1. Socalpeepss Chicken Coop

    Socalpeepss Chicken Coop

    Pictures of my coop progress. Sorry, no plans, I just invented as I went along. This is the first time I've framed or roofed anything so any of you experts out there....KEEP IT TO YOURSELF! It's "just" a chicken coop. But now I know how to use a "speed square" for basic truss construction...
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    Pin-Less Peepers

    These are the greatest thing since sliced bread! Our poor, abused, forlorn..... RIR was getting pecked to the point of just about missing all of her skin on the back of her neck by another RIR and a SLW. We segregated her and did the food coloring in vaseline thing (suddenly had bright green...
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    When do RIRs begin to lay?

    About 23 weeks when our first RIR started laying. All 3 are laying now at the 25 week point. Our SLWs are still not all on board. Our first egg was VERY small but now they're mostly on the medium side with one every now and then at about a large egg size. Here's the first one next to a...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    3 RIRs and 3 SLW. My wife and I went to Europe when the girls were about 22 weeks old and we had yet to see an egg so we were sure they would start in when we were gone as we were gone for a bit over 2 weeks. Sure enough, about a week into our trip my son sent us a PIC of the first egg (all...
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    SLW Free Roo Southern California

    We've got a silver laced wyandotte roo we need to get rid of. He's about 18 weeks old and has started to crow CONSTANTLY! Unfortunately we can't have roosters due to code and zoning and we're afraid someone will soon be complaining and we will not only have to get rid of him but some of our...
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    Chicken Wire / Hardware cloth questions for run

    Quote: I was looking at that originally as well but I figured some of the smaller predators could still get through, like rats or skunks (maybe????). I've also heard of raccoons reaching in and grabbing heads off chickens and the 1X2 wire wouldn't prevent that. But seeing as I used chicken...
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    Chickens of the Rainbow

    I asked my chickens and they neither confirm nor deny but now I know their secret
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    What is DE?

    From what I've learned it is basically crushed fossils. Full of calcium. it is also microscopically speaking very jagged and sharp so it helps with mites and other small exoskeleton creatures as it cuts the skeleton and causes them to dry out and die. To us it looks like a fine white powder...
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    Chicken Wire / Hardware cloth questions for run

    They make clips, can't remember the name but I think it was "quix clip" or something like that that you can use to connect together the hardware cloth to make it wider. They're basically metal bands that you wrap around the 2 pieces and crimp. some people use tye wraps but they deteriorate in...
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    **SHARE YOUR MOST UNIQUE CHICKEN NAME**

    RIRs Chicky Baby (our only one that died ) Super Chicken (self explanatory, wears a cape) Morgan (has "freckels" on head like Morgan Freeman) Marilyn (has spot on cheek) SLWs Antoinette (looked like Pepe Le Pew when young, so just a French name we thought of) Mike (Our only roo, named after...
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    How does this look so far

    I'm new to this too and another "victim" of the Sunset magazine article that my wife read. Also in Southern California in a tract house but a larger back yard then most. Our lot is somewhere shy of a half an acre. Much of the back yard is taken up by our pool area but somehow we managed to...
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    Looking for COOL CHICKEN COOP in California for TV Show

    I have no idea what you're looking for but here's mine. It's certainly not a "pimp my coop" type coop if THAT's what you're looking for. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=38201 I'm in Southern California, Temecula to be exact. Hey, a new show.... "Pimp My Coop". OK...
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    Time for a Man's hobby, Rocketry. No quilting here. Flames and Speed

    We're north of you, past Winchester, Hubby's a science teacher and he and our boys are just getting into some kits this summer (both sons want to work for NASA, and have the grades to get there). I built one in Chemestry in highschool, but it exploded about 50 ft up. We call those type of...
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    Time for a Man's hobby, Rocketry. No quilting here. Flames and Speed

    Any other model rocket people here? So far hobby to mid power rocketry. Waiting for the BATFE to comply with the latest court ruling and back off their requirement to hold a low explosive user's permit to posess H and higher power motors. Once I can store the higher power motors, the REAL fun...
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    Potential problem-- neighbor's yappy dog

    All the sonic devices are strictly line-of-site devices due to the high frequency sound. To really get the point accross to the dog, it needs to have a clear path between dog's ear and the device. I found this other thing that I posted about in this forum...
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