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    Rats - Part Two - OMG what do we do now?

    OK ratzapper question for you? Can u just place it on the floor of the coop or can the chickens get hurt with it? I have a rat I believe is eating my eggs because if I onto get them before dark they dwindle down from 6 to 1 or 2 tell me if I'm crazy if rats do t eat eggs...I've never seen it but...
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    coop size and run ?

    Yea they were all happy i had to make a lower roost because one of my cochins i noticed was sleeping on the floor so i went in there one night and noticed it wanted on a roost but just couldnt get up there so that night i just put it on a roost then the next day made lower one and i have a big...
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    coop size and run ?

    So we built our coop last winter its 8x8 with a run thats 18x18 now ive done the math and an 8x8 coop holds 16 chickens but last year we had like 27 in there no problem with plenty of roosting space but then some friends built a coop so we just gave them half so they didnt have to spend the...
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    Why arent more of my chickens laying?

    sry i just noticed i posted this in the wrong spot that i was in chicken behaviours and egg laying
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    Why arent more of my chickens laying?

    I have 10 hens and im lucky to get 5 eggs a day right now im getting on average 4 but i was expecting more i feed the local feed store all stock feed and my uncles chickens he has 4 and they lay every day 4 eggs for him its warming up here in indiana its staying around 50 degrees
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    why is one of my chickens eating her egg right after she lays it?

    Yea I'm not sure exactly which one it is but I'm almost done with mu hoop house so I guess ill just have to Take a few out each day till I find the culprit
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    why is one of my chickens eating her egg right after she lays it?

    I figured there was no way to "train" her to stop but thought I'd try Now I just have to figure out Which one is doing it
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    why is one of my chickens eating her egg right after she lays it?

    Hi I got chickens last spring and now this spring one has started eating the shell at first she would just Peck it a couple of times now she is eating the whole thing outta 10 hens she's the only one doing it
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    Just finished coop. Looking for any extra advice.....................

    We built our 8x8 coop which looks like a minature traditional red barn in our big barnn last winter and we moved it out with our skidster it worked great we put the forks under it then put ratchet straps around the back and set it exactly where we wanted it
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    How many chickens do we all have? 60,083 and counting.

    27195 is the new total
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    where in the heck do you get metal roofing!

    If you lived near me i could give you probably all you wanted my family owns a construction company and we have alot of what we call cover sheets which cover the new metal so it dont get scrached while being hauled to jobsites and such we get tons of it people have built whole barns outta it we...
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    I saw this coop online

    We built the exact coop i found the plans online too we built the coop 8x8 and the run is 16 foot long but we have 28 chickens so we made it bigger and yea we added a screen door on it to get in the run
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    pics of peoples fattening pens for their boilers

    do they have to have room to walk around i thought about building a coop with a wire mesh floor and a clean out tray underneath with just roosts and a big feed trougfh but finding out on here thats not good i dont like keeping them locked up but the winter is coming here
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    pics of peoples fattening pens for their boilers

    well i live in northern indiana and its getting ready to be winter hear so thats outta the question
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    pics of peoples fattening pens for their boilers

    Hey i want to get some chickens to fatten up but i dont know how to build the pen idk if i should just build like a lil box with a clean out pan underneath or anther smaller coop
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