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    Something is killing my chicks

    +1 on this idea. It looks like your top cover is a flexible mesh, something could just climb the HW cloth front and slip under the edge of the top cover. At a minimum I'd run and grab a large tote and move them into the house/garage until you can make your cage more secure.
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    Disappointment

    Sorry for misunderstanding. What I meant was that raising two batches of chicks(fake meat, then real meat birds!) totaling out to 16wks of raising chicks when I expected to be done and meat in the freezer weeks ago.
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    Feeding meat birds

    Thanks for the feed back. Right now it's mostly just zucchini that have gotten away from us. I've also started bringing home some melon scraps from Edible Arrangements. They don't seem as thrilled about the melon as they do about the squash, they just jump on the squash and eat the whole...
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    Feeding meat birds

    Just wondering what the effect is of giving meat birds garden produce during their off times where there is no Flock Raiser feed available to them? I currently have 8 meat birds that are about 7wk old. Due to schedules I wont' be able to butcher them until 9wks. So I'm trying to 'slow' them...
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    Disappointment

    I had the exact same problem with chicks from TSC. Got 10 chicks, label said cornish. This was my first experience with meat birds. Was very surprised with their behavior, they acted nothing like I had heard meat birds act. AT 8 weeks it was obvious that they were not cornish!!! I took...
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    Predator aprons on tractors

    I'm currently raising my first batch of meat birds in a part of my existing chicken run. I'm sure by the end of this the run will be trashed and smelly from the meat birds. If I decide to raise meat birds again I'd like to use the tractor method but I'm concerned about digging predators...
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    Composting For Beginners

    My run is only 12x12 but I took a board and put it across one corner to create a separate triangle of the run that I refer to as the compost corner. I don't actually use it to compost I take compost that is basically finished and dump it in that corner and let the chickens have a ball with it...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    This is cheating a bit, this actually happened yesterday! Of course my wife let me know we were getting low on carrots after we had a snow storm that dumped 2ft in our area of New York. So that meant using a snowblower as one of my tools to harvest some fresh carrots from the garden. Made my...
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    Can I use sand as baby chick grit?

    They only need grit once you start to give them something besides chick feed. I've never given my chicks grit, instead I pull a clump of grass out of the garden and give it to them with all the dirt attached. Once they've destroyed that chunk I just give them another one, this has seemed to...
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    Free Treats source

    P.S. forgot to mention, since they don't cook food they don't have automated dishwashing. So, we had to take extra measures to ensure I don't bring any contamination into their shop. What we ended up doing in my case was I scored some food clean 5gal buckets from my work cafe and after...
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    Free Treats source

    If anyone lives/works near an Edible Arrangements shop, stop in and ask about their scraps and what they do with them. I've been getting 2 5gal pails full of melon halves, pulp and seeds twice a week for free. The halves I'm getting are the ones they use the melon baller on for making the...
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    medicated feed

    Hi all! I have two chicks that have been on Un-medicated feed since I got them. They are currently just over 16wks old. I have about 2weeks of chick feed left and was considering switching them over to layer feed when the chick feed runs out as they'll be over 18wks by then. Someone I know...
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    Hi y'all. I'm new here and have some questions.

    the standard answer is that yes, hens will fight or at least squabble to establish a hierarchy in the flock. You've heard the term 'Pecking order' but there could be other issues at play here. Are they still being kept in a brooder or have they been moved to their coop? If they are still...
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    Catskill Homesteader Breeding Project

    Picked up 8 chicks in early April, here they are about a month ago. The two roos on the right back corner have since gone to freezer camp. So out of 8 chicks I ended up with 6 pullets, not a bad ratio. The bodies are a little smaller than I had hoped but the colors are very interesting so far...
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    Turning the stinky dirt in the run.

    One thing to be aware of with DL is it works best with a level run floor. my coop/run is on a slight slope so all the organic matter i throw in the run ends up piles at the low side of the run and the high side is bare. I didn't even realize it was a slope until the setup was already...
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