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    HELP with ventilation please, frostbite on comb

    I’m in a much colder climate than you (0 F last night and tonight) and my chickens have been spared frostbite so far. This may be due to the breeds I have. I’ve left my coop unheated on nights that go down to ten, which is more typical here in winter. When it dips below that, I have an electric...
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    New BC Cream Legbar Chicken Owner

    I can understand how you’d be disappointed if you were expecting powered blue and got something different. My cream legbar just started laying, and her eggs are blue green. I didn’t know to expect powder blue so I think they’re lovely.
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    My favourite Breed: Bionda Piemontese I want explain to you!

    Can these be purchased in the US? Link appreciated.
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    Lead-Free chicken wire alternative?

    Thank you. And yes.
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    Hoop coop covers — dark vinyl/greenhouse

    My son and I have just about finished buying and acquiring all the items and tools we need to build our first chicken hoop coop. Originally we had thought of just using dark vinyl tarp over the whole 8’ (2 cattle panel) length. Now I’m wondering about having 1 panel covered in dark vinyl and the...
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    So glad to have found this!

    Lead in hardware cloth and chicken wire
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    So glad to have found this!

    Lead in hardware cloth and chicken wire
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    Lead-Free chicken wire alternative?

    Yes apparently it can. I went with galvanized steel hardware cloth. Stainless steel would have cost three times as much. I hope I’m not making a mistake. Trying to find the balance between healthy and alarmism. Don’t know if I made the right choice.
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    Lead-Free chicken wire alternative?

    Thank you. Yes this all seems correct from what I’ve read. H look for the electroplated hardware cloth.
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    Lead-Free chicken wire alternative?

    Several articles found online. I googled chicken coop lead. I’m happy to share them.
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    Lead-Free chicken wire alternative?

    Thank you!
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    So glad to have found this!

    I have found articles online about both chicken wire and hardware cloth leaching lead into soil. I’m happy to share them.
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    So glad to have found this!

    He is 11. Yes we live in metro Detroit so we still get significant snow. We have opossums, skunks, foxes, and raccoons and there have been a couple coyote sightings even though we live jn a suburban environment. Also falcons and hawks. However for better or worse we see a lot fewer of those now...
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    So glad to have found this!

    Yes unfortunately the hardware cloth sold here does have lead.
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    So glad to have found this!

    Thank you. Unfortunately the hardware cloth sold here also can leach lead into the soil.
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