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    The right gun placement to quickly kill a rooster?

    I'm a bit nervous to try the gun for the reason Mrs. K pointed out. Ricocheting bullets or bone shrapnel from shooting at close range doesn't sound fun. I've already had surgery once from trying to cull a chicken (severed tendon in my thumb). So now someone else does it for me. "We" used to use...
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    Source for flaked (not chunked) oyster shell

    I can see why you felt it was too tense, although I just have to say... If chicken people can't argue about chicken supplies, what would we care enough to argue about?! 🤯 Stay tuned for: "Did this feed make my hens stop laying?" "To heat or not to heat?" And "Can protein make my chickens...
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    Kicking myself down the road

    Raccoons can travel many miles to return to familiar ground. Thus, it's not recommended to relocate them. When they make it back they are 10x more wary of traps. I did relocate a coon once myself. It was a personable one so we felt terrible to kill her (the mother of a whole gang, we suspected...
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    Source for flaked (not chunked) oyster shell

    You must not have run this experiment yourself. No one who had would describe it as "simple" to break down an Oyster Shell with a hammer. I've heard it's very hard work physically, and harder to keep the shells from bouncing all around on a hard surface (like concrete, in one account). But feel...
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    Hey, all you lurkers! (I mean YOU!) Register and talk to us! - 2026 Edition

    Have you noticed all the naps they take during the day?
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    Things you wish you could say

    You didn't laughingly imply I couldn't learn to wire some things together without burning the house down. I mean, Mr. Big Electrical Engineer in the family, that IS why I reached out to you to chat about the project and see if you had advice. I told you I was reading a dense book about it. I'm...
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    Hey, all you lurkers! (I mean YOU!) Register and talk to us! - 2026 Edition

    Plot Twist: It's the chickens... Roosting in a coop near you, hacking into their coop cams with a few pecks to get the nightly gossip.
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    Source for flaked (not chunked) oyster shell

    I don't believe that. When you crush something comprised of layers (it is grown), the result is just a much smaller flake. They have no reason to spend the electricity on turning it into powder, except to hide what's in it. These companies are running a scam on every customer buying bags of...
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    Source for flaked (not chunked) oyster shell

    No bag of rocks I have ever looked at in the store has actually had Oyster Shell in it. One big-brand label read like this... Ingredients: Oyster Shell comprised of Coral Calcium and Limestone. The companies wanted to keep that name recognition when real Oyster products became too expensive...
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    My first hatch!

    Congratulations! It really is so heartening to see new life emerge from your own efforts. 🥰
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    How to make scrap bread more nutritious for chickens

    How do you come by cow colostrum? I thought that was a valuable item with a short window of availability (since mammals only produce it for a few days).
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    Wind chill doesn’t count, right?

    How are yours doing after last night? Mine were very grumpy this morning that their water was frozen. It may be the first time that's ever happened for us. Our RV water supply hose was frozen too. But thankfully we had gallon jugs of bottled water available to bring out for them. Not sure if...
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    Need a larger chicken door?

    Is it the width or height that is causing problems? We have 3 of the same auto door that swings outward, like a people door. It provides more room for the chickens to get through, which is often necessary for mine who are mostly big. It's this one - Door Approximately 14 x 11 inch opening...
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    lights for indoor stable coop/run

    If it were me I would hunt in the plant light category. It will likely be less expensive than specially-for-chickens lights. There are a lot of full spectrum options, but getting the full lumens at ground level is going to take some research. It can get confusing when you look at LED wattage...
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    How much do you cry?

    I've never been a crier, those statistics sound extremely high. Although I was raised with a lot of love, it was also clear that tears wouldn't have any effect on anything. I've always hypothesized that crying (like screaming) is the result of thinking that help is coming. And some people...
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