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    Hello - New member here

    Here's the boys too btw, Flynn and Cleveland. Yeah, Cleveland is the brown one and I'm a Steeler fan lol, granddaughter named them.
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    Hello - New member here

    Haven't been posting much, lots of things going on. We got a couple of Nigerian dwarf goats and have been doing some work around the property. We got new chickens, the old girls weren't keeping up. A friend of ours kept the 6 new chicks until they were coop ready and took the old gals for...
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    Sanded the coop

    Hi folks, sorry I haven't been overly active. It's been a trying summer out here in the high desert for a number of reasons. Finally getting some stuff done around the place. Had a month of monsoon season with a lot of rain for the desert and the flies. Oh god... Five gallon bucket trap...
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    Breaking eggs issue

    Still getting one single smashed egg a day, plus 2 or three undamaged ones. I put some extra padding in the box. BTW, I'm using shaved pine for padding, not cedar as I originally stated. It's brutally hot outside too, mid 90's but it was like that last summer for a few weeks. They do have a...
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    I'm a rock star!

    Grew up on Metallica, Anthrax and the like. Played that stuff in garage bands then in my early 30's found some guys who were great to work with so we did our thing. Originals, cow-punk I'm told was the genre but I'll play mostly anything. I'd love to hear your hub's stuff, that sounds like an...
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    I'm a rock star!

    Nothing wrong with that. There's a little hippie in all of us and that's a good thing.
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    Should I warn neighbor that dog might get shot?

    I had the same issue two years ago. I called the sheriff, he suggested shooting them. That's a whole new can of worms if you pull that trigger (see what I did there?). Called the neighboring town's dog catcher who policed the rurals and he came by a few times but couldn't nab them. Either...
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    I'm a rock star!

    Well no, not really. 20 years ago I used to be in a local band in Pittsburgh. We played bars and clubs on weekends now and then, nothing spectacular but we had fun and occasionally got paid. I tell people that I'm not a musician, I'm a drummer lol. So when Covid broke out and we decided we...
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    Gun enthusiasts anything from Hunting to target shooters.

    Oh, and I finally got a CCW 5 years ago (just renewed it). My wife wasn't crazy about the idea of me introducing guns to my son when he was younger. After she came to the range with us and watched him handle a gun with care and confidence (he can shoot) it inspired her to get her CCW. She...
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    Gun enthusiasts anything from Hunting to target shooters.

    Wish I had more time to hunt, it's been a crazy year and a half. I hardly have time for fishing anymore but my son, 18 is a gun enthusiast. I'm a gun guy but I wouldn't qualify as an enthusiast. He just picked up an AR and we shoot it at the public range. I'm not crazy about it, not that I'm...
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    Breaking eggs issue

    Thanks Mrs K, that sounds like good advice. I'll be patient and careful. I was just in Custer SD a few weeks ago for a little vacation with the family.
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    Breaking eggs issue

    I stopped the hospital scraps two weeks ago and that's the odd part. Because of the flies that scraps attract this time of the summer. The daily egg smash seemed to start right after that. They don't seem to be taking much of the pellets also by my observation. Wondering if I spoiled them...
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    Breaking eggs issue

    That's just it, I don't think they're (or one) are eating them. It's probably something stupid like not enough padding in the box but it's really odd that it's suddenly now happening every day for the past 4 or 5 days. Just one single egg a day is crushed (shell not eaten). The other 3 or...
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    Breaking eggs issue

    First post is a question, an issue I'm suddenly having. I have 6 sex link reds, they generally lay on average 5 eggs a day but with the summer heat they've slowed a bit averaging 3 maybe. They're on layer pellets but throughout the year they eat a LOT of scraps (vegetable and bread stuff that...
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    Hello - New member here

    Hi - Nevada high desert resident. I've had chickens (6 sex link red) for two and a half years now, they're great. Hoping to gain more knowledge here and share what I do know, it seems like a great place here. Thanks for having me!
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