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  1. Ponypoor

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    ...by end of year anyways… The task itself is simple enough, just takes a bit of fortitude and belief in one’s self. I wrapped her in my egg apron and tied the stings to keep her from flapping. Cutting the skin was easy but the crop itself is a bit thicker and needs belief in one’s self to do...
  2. A

    Building My First Ever Coop and Run

    Ahh, okay, will keep that in mind. Thank you!
  3. BlindLemonChicken

    Building My First Ever Coop and Run

    Prices now will be better than spring when everyone is looking for a coop. If you find something now you can always bury the hwc apron in the spring
  4. BigBlueHen53

    Anyone else's rooster do this...

    ...not keep predators OUT. For that you need hardware cloth. 16 guage, 1/2", preferably on a base of welded goat fencing or similar for structural soundness. With an 18" apron extending outward all the way around. And if you have BIG predators like cougars or bears ... go electric fencing around...
  5. B

    New Here, and Building a Coop

    Okay thank you very much for the information, it sounds like this will be an interesting ride. I know the neighbor just up above me has chickens and ducks, I'll have to see what he's got going on up there since he's local to me. I've never seen minks or weasels or or possums or rats. I know we...
  6. McChooky

    New Here, and Building a Coop

    ...eat chicken feed, eggs, baby chicks and kill small chickens.Tunnels allow bigger predators to get inside.They can chew thru wood and concrete.The only thing that'll stop a rat from tunneling inside is a wide or deep apron made of steel mesh buried or covered with dirt after pinning to the ground.
  7. Bantam bell Wood

    First Winter With Chickens, What To Do?

    I appreciate your notes here. Do you recommend a ridge vent under all circumstances? I have 4 bantams in an ample but not too large sized coop. The vents, 5”x5”are at the top of the ridge on either side. I have considered enlarging them, but I’m not sure how much ventilation my tiny flock needs.
  8. VxChx

    My girls are named Betty, Blanche, Bea, & Estelle. They eat layer crumble, veggies, scraps &...

    ...They eat layer crumble, veggies, scraps & black fly larvae. I add once daily mush for the cross bill who easily eats crumble with her head tilted. Bea is the friendliest. Their first heavy molt was this fall. Fluffy Betty is now a frizzle! Estelle needs an apron since Betty picks at her tail
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  9. McChooky

    Feeling Bad

    Sometimes they dig underneath the sides.Perhaps you missed the tiny hole? Fallen leaves can make it difficult to detect.A 2"-3" hole isn't very noticeable.If you don't have an apron around the sides I advise you to make one out of hw cloth.
  10. Mrs Fryzzle

    Help! Chickens Pecking Each Other, Drawing Blood and Infections!!!!

    ...Earth is always a good start solution- on their roosting bars/branches, bedding (may kill compost cultures however), etc. A good handy Apron on the girls help too. Removing the trouble-makers is also a handy solution to restart them on the 'ladder'. I have 23 chickens, 10 geese, 5...
  11. rosemarythyme

    New Here, and Building a Coop

    ...much work. Raccoon, at minimum you want enough hardware cloth around the lower 2-3' of the run to prevent reachthroughs as that's a method they like using to kill chickens. Foxes dig, so an apron 18-24" out from the base of the run and held down by landscape staples will help ward off dig ins.
  12. Al Gerhart

    All Things Treadle Feeder

    ...than even the most expensive treadle feeder and it must be maintained as the rats chew through walls and dig longer tunnels under the widest aprons. Rats and mice either chew or die from teeth puncturing their skulls. As long as they can get to the feed they will try to break in. Just deal...
  13. A

    All Things Treadle Feeder

    Refining the aprons is on my larger to-do list. There's a local stray cat who comes on my property sometimes to hunt the rats, and because he's not a danger to the chickens (and I don't currently have any outdoor cats), I've done nothing to deter him. The treadle feeders have definitely been a...
  14. Ted Brown

    I regret pea gravel, need advice.

    ...6-8" of mulch and a healthy wack of leaves & needles each fall for 5 years. Now have 8+ inches above natural state in the run. My horizontal aprons & lower part of walls began to rust in the 6th year due to being buried. I excavated inside & out, added pressure treated 2x6 inside the HC and...
  15. McChooky

    A Predator broke welded coop & killed two of my girls.

    Cats won't usually go in one but once.I hope you have an apron around your coop so the dogs can't dig their way in
  16. RoyalChick

    All Things Treadle Feeder

    There are some safe rat poisons around. RatX and high dose Vitamin D are the stand outs. RatX is safe for everything except rats and mice but it doesn’t seem very yummy to rats unless all other food has been eliminated. Mice seem to like it. Vitamin D is not safe for others to consume, but...
  17. BDutch

    All Things Treadle Feeder

    ...a result of using poison or eliminating animals of prey in the past. It must be doable to block the tunnels and make new and larger or deeper aprons in the corners somehow. This is the best way to keep the rats out. A cat that hunts young rats is a good asset too. Great to read these...
  18. Eggcessive

    regrowing feathers? How?

    ...Once they lose a bunch of feathers from overmating, it can take until the next yearly molt for feathers to grow back in. A hen saddle/apron can sometimes help. Watch for feather picking as well. Feather picking occurs usually because of boredom, over crowding, not enough protein in the diet...
  19. T

    Chicken Noob: Buy a buildable pen/run for safety or continue predator proofing?

    I have a pen that’s on the way that comes with hardware cloth for the sides then I will be buying more to add a skirt to the entire thing and attach the coops run to the additional run I ordered. I’ll check out setting up an electrical system, I’ve just been a little hesitant with that since I...
  20. DobieLover

    Chicken Noob: Buy a buildable pen/run for safety or continue predator proofing?

    ...tearing through the chicken wire. Chicken wire doesn't hold anything back. I would do that in addition to a 2 ft wide hardware cloth predator apron pinned down on the outside edges with heavy duty landscape staples. Then I would run several strands of hot wire around the entire setup. I would...
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