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    PVC pipe chicken tractor?

    What schedule pipe is it 40 or 20?
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    Where do you find fake eggs to put in nests?

    I have had no luck with the ceramic eggs. The Texas Rat Snake (chicken snake) went around them and went for the real ones. My grandmother used glass eggs, very successful with them 60-years back. My coop is now snake proof!
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    How I mix DE in my feed

    l have two open top metal feeders with open tray around the bottom. I use the white powder FGDE that I purchase online, 35lb. paper sacks w/free shipping. I keep a quart canning jar w/lid in coop, and sprinkle it in food tray below feeder, every few days. I’m feeding chickens crumbles, and take...
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    Soy free chicken feed?

    I just had to quit soy free, orders got back ordered several weeks at a time. That's what we get for not living closer to big cities. I only like to see big cities in my rear view mirror!!
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    Respiratori questions

    thanks for the good info. I saw on FaceBook a person giving there chicken 1-cc down the throat of a sick chicken. Glad you responded, I'll cancel that idea. Thanks
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    Comment by 'Ronnie2' in article 'Keeping Your Chickens Healthy'

    Nice article, I have let my chickens free range in spring until late fall, because of owls, and hawks. Living in N.E. Texas we have a lot of greens popping up, and plenty of bugs under the oak trees have fallen leaves. I guess I need to build a chicken tractor.
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    What is your Dog's name?

    My dog's name is Dolly, she is a rescue, from a private family that was in the local newspaper. They wanted to deliver her to my house, but my last dog came from a breeder. She brought that one to my house from out of town to review where the dog was going to live. She said she couldn't leave...
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    What is your Dog's name?

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    Respiratori questions

    I have 23-hens, 1-rooster, and one cockerel. Last week I had a chicken who was making baby kitten sounds, I thought I would wait and see, in the meantime, I discovered Vet-Rx here on BYC. When I warmed as directed, and opened coop, she had died during the night. This afternoon before dusk, I...
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    Composting recommendations?

    I have been keeping chickens since last April. I now am up to 23, and don't have any oder either. My 16-foot south side of coop is all open and covered with 1/4-inch galvinized steel hardware cloth. All the other walls and two windows or also covered with the steel clothe, covered over with...
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    Rooster problem

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    Rooster problem

    Sounds like a good plan, will be separating the younger, cockeral to the separated brooder pen today, unless my other friends want him. The other two are only three months, so will wait and pick one for a back up. Thanks
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    Rooster problem

    I have 1- 1-1/2 year old Buff Orpingtons rooster and three hens. Have another rooster that just getting to like the girls, and 2-more in the brooder pen. I will have 23 hens when the seven hens come out of the brooder, they will be 3-months old Nov. 1. The younger rooster is chasing the...
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    Automatic chicken waterer

    I decided to go ahead and put the waterer on concrete blocks so to see if have leaks. I hooked it up yesterday, and the chickens went right to it, they love it. I'm leaving the 5-gal. waterer in place to be sure today, then will take it out.
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    Automatic chicken waterer

    I am using a 55-gal plastic barrel, that I have cut down to size. I am sitting the barrel on the ground to keep the water inlet lines from freezing using submersible heater, an adjustable water pressure valve, that will be connected to community water system. The underground PVC line riser...
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    Horizontal Nipple Drinkers Waterers?

    What is the height from ground to install, Horizontal Nipple Drinkers Waterers on a barrel for buff Orpington roosters, hens, and 12-week old pullets?
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    Comment by 'Ronnie2' in item 'Little Giant - 3 Gallon Plastic Poultry Waterer - PPF3'

    I have one to these types, and the cons are the 1/4-inch thick rubber ring that is the gasket, that attaches to the white plastic, not the lid. The instructions were to get the lid tight, but not enough to break the handle. I have bought and replaced the gasket 3-times since I purchased these...
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    Composting recommendations?

    I don't use PDZ. I only use in my coop FGDEarth, and only use it on the poop boards, sometimes in the feed when the poop gets runny, and in the nest boxes. As far as the covered chicken runs, I sprinkle FGDE, with a flour duster where they take there dust bathes in the sun. I use pine straw...
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    Underground water supply into chicken runs. Not into coop

    Thank you cavemanrich Glad that I ask the question, and am happier I got a reply. I only started keeping chickens in April of this year, never been through the winter yet. Just tired of hauling in coop 5-gal. chicken waterers. I'll do as you said, will get on it right now and order supplies.
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    Underground water supply into chicken runs. Not into coop

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