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    DIY Goat Stall

    I know this is a REALLY old thread but just wanted to say I'm so glad to find it. Just built our barn and was looking for a sensible and budget friendly way to build stalls for my goats and mini horses. This is great. If the OP is still active on here THANKS!
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    Keeping chickens out of vegetable garden... pics of current set up included

    Can you just put electric poultry fence around the whole area of the planters to keep them out? Leave it up for the growing season then take it down after harvest and let them in the help with the cleanup.
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    Solid sides in run?

    Does anyone have 2-4' high solid sides in their run? We can get some pretty good wind and deep snow so I'm wondering about doing it in our run. Wondering if anyone on here has good/bad experiences with this setup. Thanks!
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    Flooring idea for muddy run - something permanent

    Honestly it mostly breaks down or gets tracked out. I haven't had to shovel it out yet. The beautiful thing is every time it dries out its like sawdust again. It doesn't pack down into nasty moldy mats like shavings and straw.
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    Flooring idea for muddy run - something permanent

    This is my first mud season using pine pellet bedding and I'm sold on it. It soaks up the mud and basically turns into sawdust. Then it slowly dries out. Next time it rains it soaks up the water again. It doesn't pack down like shavings and turn into a solid moldy mat. Easy to sweep up or shovel...
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    Camp Trailer Coop

    It's parked under a Costco carport cause the roof leaks and it's got a 24'x30' chain link panel run around it. It's wired so that we can plug the trailer in and have outlets inside for heat or a fan. The end with the big window is able to be separated as a brooder so no more raising chicks in...
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    Camp Trailer Coop

    So this is what we started with. It was nasty inside. It had been lived in and the roof had leaked. We totally gutted it and...
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    Rooster Pens?

    Thanks for the info so far you guys. Here is a little more info. I've got two roosters, one with each flock of chickens. I have a more aggressive flock and a more docile flock. I've split them up for ease of introducing new chickens based on personality and to avoid feather picking and other...
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    Rooster Pens?

    Does anyone have separate pens for their roosters? I like to hatch a few batches of eggs each year but having my roosters in with my hens year round just leaves me with rough looking and harassed chickens missing their back feathers. If you have pictures handy of your breeding pens or rooster...
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    "Flipper" poult

    My turkey managed to hatch one poult but a couple of the chicken hens got in and gave it a decent peck to the leg. I pulled it out and have it in my incubator with my eggs going into lockdown tomorrow. Gave it a drop of nutri-drench. It's quit shaking but seems to be a flipper. Going to try to...
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    Camp Trailer Coop

    We finished up the paneling over the weekend and added supports for the roof. It had sagged and that allowed water to pool and sit on the roof. Not good! We did this same support system over the door into the trailer as well. The roof had totally rotted and come down over the door. That was the...
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    Camp Trailer Coop

    Then we gut the trailer. This is where we found so much more damage than we initially thought. We considered saving the wiring since it all still worked but removing the cabinets left us with piles of wire everywhere. So rather than sort through it my husband decided it would be easier to just...
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    Camp Trailer Coop

    Picked up a salvaged trailer to turn into a coop. Ended up having WAY more rot/water damage than I thought but we're making it work. First thing we did was strip off all of the old sealant on the roof and use RV roof tape in place. Took several days to peal, scrape, ass grind all the layers...
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    Treadle for Turkeys??

    That will work when my home is finished and we get set up on our new acreage. But for now I have a run and a hen house that is only big enough for egg laying and sleeping. The turkeys won't go in anymore so they have an open raised roost with a roof.
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    Treadle for Turkeys??

    Does anyone use the grandpa's feeders for their Turkeys? The wild birds are eating all the feed and pooping everywhere! I'm more worried about lice and diseases than the food I'm losing but getting a feeder the wild birds can't get into is necessary. My turkeys live with a handful of chickens...
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    Fresh Paint in Happy Color!

    I have to admit that I've neglected my chickens. A surprise (but very welcome) pregnancy kinda overwhelmed me. So my chickens got lice... Got rid of them and they started eating their eggs... Broke that habit and they have worms... In the worming process and ready to give up. Now I find we have...
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    Sebastopol and Emden

    Okay, after some reading my plan is to let the geese (maybe everyone) out to graze in the pasture during the day and training them to go back into the run at night. Are raccoons big enough to take on a goose? Say I wanted to let them just live in the pasture and put a goose house out there? We...
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    Sebastopol and Emden

    I have the opportunity to get a Sebastopol gander and an Emden goose from a neighboring homesteader. I have owned chickens and ducks but never geese. Right now I have a large run (16'x24') with a very mild mannered rooster, one runner duck, and one hen. I am hoping that the new geese can move...
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    Old Duck Problems

    ...but he won't go in it. Instead he sleeps out in the run in the weather. Do I build him a wider "duck friendly" ramp? Do I just let him do his thing? We get down to -18* or so some nights in January and at 9 years old I'm afraid sleeping out on the cold ground will do him in. Thanks in advance.
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    "Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

    Hey all! My son and I got out the trusty homemade cooler incubator today. We'll be putting a dozen eggs in from our back yard flock. The rooster is one bird that was successfully hatched by old fashion broody hen. He's 3/4 BO and 1/4 Welsummer. The hens are some mixed we've hatched, BO...
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