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    Help! Winter is coming

    Where do you live?
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    Roosts

    I put a small log/branch in the brooder. Just a couple of inches high. This is easy for them to get on.
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    Wilcox Farm egg yolks - how do they do it?

    The more color, the more beta carotenoids. I love the color. But, for the best cakes, I use duck eggs. Well, when I had ducks.
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    Wilcox Farm egg yolks - how do they do it?

    If your chickens free range you should get beautiful egg yolk. Beta carotenoids are in plantain, dandelions, grass, etc. You won't have to supplement.
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    WHY I'VE NO BEEN SEING LOCAL AFRICAN CHICKEN COOP

    Please add your location in your information. Africa is a really big continent with variable predator problems and climates. I did a google search for "Chicken Coops From Africa". There were plenty of coops of various designs. Maybe you could start from there and tell us what you decided on.
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    New shed

    It looks very nice. But, the window is where the chickens will be roosting. They need the windows above their heads when they roost. Also, I don't think there is enough ventilation
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    First Winter

    I wrote "straw bales", not "hay bales". Very different products. Hay is a food and has mold spores on it. When it gets wet, the mold will grow. Use Straw.
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    First Winter

    People up here put straw bales under their mobile homes in the winter, I think just around the edge. It must work, so good idea.
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    First Winter

    The air coming in needs to be above their heads when on the roosting bar. You may need to put a window under the eaves and close the one shown in the picture. You can also raise the roof and put hardware cloth between the walls and roof. Since the prevailing winds come from the north, turn the...
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    Start small or go straight to 12

    If you start with six, then add six more two years later, you will extend the better laying time that Ridgerunner mentioned. Also, with six you can see how well six do in the amount of space you give them before adding six more. You may also decide that you want a different breed for some...
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    Brand New to Chickens – Looking for Beginner Tips!

    Orpingtons are large, winter hardy, very calm and gentle. They have a good egg laying reputation, laying longer than other breeds (fall into winter). They lay medium sized eggs, if that matters to you. They will forage. I have also had Brahma chickens. They are very large winter hardy, calm...
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    Extension cord out to coop, pros and cons

    Please add your location in the box. I'm in Michigan's thumb and I don't add heat. If you do decide to run an electric cord, make sure it is for outdoor use. Don't lay it on the ground, have it raised, as Stinky Acres has done. You could run it along that wooden fence. The chickens won't need...
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    Baby chicks are 1 week old, when can I feed them bugs?

    Black Oil Sunflower Seeds. TSC and other stores have them. They may be packaged as wild bird seed.
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    Profitability

    As Big Blue Hen wrote, take a couple of classes on business. Your local community college probably has practical classes for you. Basic Bookkeeping, Accounting for the small Business, Small Animal agriculture. Be sure to compare the prices of commercial chicken feed with that which you can...
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    Profitability

    I went to the poultry show at Cheboygan, Michigan. I asked somebody if there was anyone present who sold Brahmas. She pointed out the Brahma judge and said that he was "Mr. Brahma". Mr. Brahma called his wife. I drove a couple of miles to their little homestead and bought two chickens. One...
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    Profitability

    If you are going to raise your own chickens spend the extra money on a pair (or more) of excellent birds. You will get the size, personality, etc. that you expect. Hatchery chicks are unlikely to come up to the quality of well bred chicks.
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    Egg Cartn - Winter in NJ

    They can free range in the winter. Most will tredge through the snow. I don't know what they find, maybe they just get cabin fever.
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    Winterizing coop

    Once you put in the new windows you can block off the original window, or block off enough of it so the air is coming in above their heads.
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    anyone else have one of these really old giant coops

    I don't think the building was originally meant for chickens. Very little ventilation. It probably had equipment in it. When you dress it out for chickens, cut some windows out. The windows should be above the chickens' heads when they are roosting.
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    Michigan winter

    When we had chickens years ago DH made a small coop (looked like an old outhouse). We put a bale of straw, picky side up, with the roost above the straw bale. The poop dropped down into the bale. No clumping and freezing. In the spring he lifted off the coop and the intact bale was tossed...
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