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    9 new chicks with mom, Can I put them in a coop with a ramp?

    What I did is the chicks are in a brooder in the shed. But mama seems to go where ever the chicks go. So I would think if you move them to the ground she would follow suit. But definitely watch and make sure
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    9 new chicks with mom, Can I put them in a coop with a ramp?

    So when could the chicks go up a ramp?
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    9 new chicks with mom, Can I put them in a coop with a ramp?

    I have 9 newly hatched chicks under mama hen. I moved her out of the coop 2 days before hatch. Unfortunately the cage she is in is just that, a small rabbit cage. She was not top hen, but second or close to that. So can chicks go up and down a ramp? Do I need food inside the coop or can I...
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    Rediscovering Traditional Meats from Historic Chicken Breeds

    So I have an All American pressure canner, not electric...would this work? Maybe I'll have to look for the manual and read up on it.
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    Rediscovering Traditional Meats from Historic Chicken Breeds

    I've never cooked in a pressure cooker, only done canning. What pressure did you cook at? Thanks!
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    Who is dis gal? Bantam...

    Well she lays, a pinkish white egg. Very similar to what our sebright laid last fall.
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    Who is dis gal? Bantam...

    I'll post a picture of her when she does. She's friendlier then our sebright hen and very inquisitive.
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    Who is dis gal? Bantam...

    I always figured she was a sebright mix, since she looked identical to the other sebright chicks and hen, except for her cheeks.
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    Sebright not using the nest box, how can I get her to do so?

    thanks! I'll probably put them on the other end of the coop this spring.
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    Who is dis gal? Bantam...

    Well that would be cool! We'll see this spring with egg color. I guess, that would help with ID
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    Sebright not using the nest box, how can I get her to do so?

    Well, right now we have 13 birds, 1 rooster. But last fall only 5 were laying and 6 were chicks. At the time she was not at the bottom of the whole flock, but I'd say of the birds that were laying she was at the bottom. I only have 2 nest boxes currently, 2 more are built but have not been...
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    Who is dis gal? Bantam...

    She's a bantam I picked up from TSC that had a mixed bag of bantam chicks. She's the same size and color of the sebright hen, she just has a fluffy cheeks. Thanks!
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    Sebright not using the nest box, how can I get her to do so?

    I have standards and bantams. My sebright was the only bantam that was laying last fall. But she rarely laid in the nest box. Most eggs were in one of the coop corners. It was searching for a needle in a haystack. Which she would lay 3-4 eggs a week. Do you have different sized boxes for...
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    Fisher showed up on our game camera...kinda worried about the chickens now.

    I do have windows and vents. The vents only have chicken wire, but I'm cutting hardware cloth to go over them instead. The windows have 1x2 wire from the garden over them. I do worry about the roof being a polycarbonate roof, and it ripping thru the roof.
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    Fisher showed up on our game camera...kinda worried about the chickens now.

    Here's the best pic. But I know what a fisher looks like. My dad traps and I'm a biologist. It showed up 2 nights in a row on the game camera. Got at least a dozen pictures of it, along with two rolly polly raccoons, a coyote and a red fox. All during the full moon or close to it. Will...
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    Fisher showed up on our game camera...kinda worried about the chickens now.

    So we had a fox and raccoon problem this summer. Put a automatic door closer/opener on the coop to keep the coons out. Now a fisher has shown up on the game camera in the woods behind our house. Will the go after chickens during the day or only night time? Ofcourse I say that knowing there...
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    Australorp chick at 11 weeks old...what gender?

    That would be awesome! We lost our hen australorp this year to a fox (got the fox now). And loved how good of a layer she was. Keeping our fingers crossed for pullet.
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    Australorp chick at 11 weeks old...what gender?

    Ok so I thought this was a cockerel, but now I'm not so sure. I only had one australorp chick from this bunch. It didn't feather in as soon as the other pullets, but not as slow as the other cockerel. Its comb is big but not as red as the cockerels. Also I'm not noticing any pointy saddle...
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    Chickens controlling june bug larvae?

    I'll dig it up both this fall then and spring and see if that helps. Hopefully it's not such a late spring. Thanks!
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    Chickens controlling june bug larvae?

    I didn't know if it would work this way, since last year I let them in too. But the grubs were everywhere. but our soil is so sandy that I got some horse manure from the neighbors this spring, so maybe they didn't have enough time to dig thru it, because I had potato bugs and June bug grubs...
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