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    Home made inexpensive door opener

    Here are some pictures and an explaination of my home made door opener. It only opens the door, not shut it, but thats fine with me. I always check on the coop at night, so closing it is no problem, but hate to see the hens stuck inside until I get up in the morning which can be a bit late on...
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    sexing silkies

    I've never seen chickens with such large eyes. Sure hope I get at least on hen out of the three chicks I got. Am looking to hatch out some of the eggs and I hear these are the best setters.
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    sexing silkies

    what about the waddles, aren't they bigger on a rooster? Wow, 10 weeks to crowing, thats pretty early!
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    sexing silkies

    I recently picked up some white silkies chicks and was wondering, as they grow older does it become easy to tell the roosters from the hens? I have heard that its somewhat difficult with this breed. I'd like to hear peoples experience with this and any tips on determining the sex.
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    Hawk deterent

    I got my crow decoy at Dicks Sporting Goods. We had a snow storm yesterday and my son noticed our plastic crow is sitting there with snow on his back. Think this will tip off the hawk that he's a fake?
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    Hawk deterent

    No, I havent moved it since I put them both up and its been about a three weeks. No hawk has been around since. Hard to know all the factors but so far so good. Raccoons are not an issue for me because they only go after my chickens at night. As long as I shut them in once it gets dark there's...
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    Hawk deterent

    Recently I had a large hawk, couldn't tell what kind, took out three of my chickens in three days. I looked through the posts here about how to deal the problem but none of the solutions seemed to fit my situation due to the size of the area where they free range. I did see some comments about...
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    Rooster choice

    I have had a number of rooster over the years and currently have a Barred Rock rooster. He is a pretty mellow fellow, maybe the most gentle temperament I've had in roosters. I really like a mellow rooster as I have had some pretty ornery guys. Recently I got a couple of Partridge Rock hens to...
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    White Leghorn vs Brown leghorn - best layer?

    I have raised a number of different breeds for egg laying but nothing Ive found compares to a white leghorn for regular and long term egg production. I have three 4 year old girls in my flock who are still laying regularly, even in mid January. I wish they werent so high strung and skidish, not...
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    Ideal broody hen

    I have been raising chickens for years but this year I hatched a couple of chicks for the first time because a white leghorn, of all breeds, went determinedly broody and would not give up sitting on the eggs, even if there were none there. So I finally gave in and let her hatch a few, now I want...
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