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    Finally get to build a coop!

    Sadly it's not for MY chickens. My mom moved back to the area a while ago, has 15 acres and she wants chickens. I get to build the coop and live vicariously through her chickens. This is the plan I'm basing mine off of. This one is supposedly 10x10, but I'm making mine 8x16. The coop...
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    Raised bed gardening and chicken tractor

    I'll look into that book thanks. Your suggestions have me rethinking things. At first I was just going to fill the new beds with dirt and peat....then set the hens on them for a period of time....now I'm thinking I'll just leave the boxes bare and layer poop and hay and let it compost. If I...
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    Raised bed gardening and chicken tractor

    Ok. So.....I'm planning on adding about 16 more raised beds to my garden this year. I currently have 4. They are 8' x 4'. With that in mind. I'm planning on planting at least 10 of them for us and having the others on rotation. The plan is to keep 2-3 hens (serama, seabright or...
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    Snaplock coop vs. converting resin shed?

    Erin is here too! "Wheels" is her username.
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    Snaplock coop vs. converting resin shed?

    I don't have any advice....I just wanted to wave frantically cause I "know" you LOL.
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    Anyone use 1/2 x 1 inch grid?

    I've used half by 1 for several months now with no problems.
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    Tips for design against 50-60+ mph winds? (hoop coops?)

    I'm in the same boat as you. No coop yet, but with my rabbit hutches I had to sink the legs two feet down and cement them in. The wind had no problem picking up a 300lb rabbit hutch and tossing it like a ball.
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    Make your own - No waste - 5 gallon (25# feed) bucket feeder for about $3

    Has anyone used these for Serama or quail? I'm getting eggs this week (Serama) and am looking for good feeder options for them. I've finally got my quail to stop wasting food, but I need to find a solution that will hold enough food for a week. We're taking a vacation in a few months and...
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    Reintroducing injured quail to flock?

    Ok, so I had two roos in with 9 hens. They got WAY too rough with the girls, and since I decided I didn't really care about raising for meat I culled out the roos yesterday. I had separated out one hen a few days ago, and it looks like I may need to separate out another. The first one I did...
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    Run... Grass.... Dirt.... Can't free range.... Advice!

    How about growing some fodder? It's simple, and I bet they would LOVE it. I grow wheat fodder (because it's all I can readily get) but I'm told barley grows a lot better. Honestly I think the wheat grows just fine!
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    Please help my inner idiot please!!! Incubator moron

    Flip them immediately would be my advice (I'm still very novice myself....so take my advice with that waring.) They may still have time to rotate enough in the shell that it wont be an issue. Worse case, what I'm reading is that hatchability drops 12-30 percent. (This is for chicken eggs....so...
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    automatic door opener for small resin coop?

    The pullet-shut door says it's 11" x 15" I think that would fit wouldn't it??
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    Chickens as garbage disposals.....

    Thanks guys. These are seramas, and will be in a raised wire floored run (solid floor coop, perches in run). There will only be 3-4 hens per cage, does it matter if the food isn't scattered with that few number of hens? (Don't worry, I have a tractor that I'll be rotating them in, so they will...
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    Chickens as garbage disposals.....

    So my primary use of my (soon to be) chickens will be as garbage disposals. A weird use, I know...but...hey..it works for me. Anyway..... If you were to use your birds as fridge and plate cleaners...would you just dump things whole into a pan, or would you buzz them up in a blender or food...
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    Auction ......CLOSED ....Serama Fertile Hatching Eggs.. Ends On 4/20/14 @ 7pm Pacific Time

    I bid $10!
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