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  1. PamelaTX

    2nd night with chickens and the predators gather!!

    I expected it but not so fast! Since we live in the country, I knew we had predators. But on night two we awoke to the dogs going NUTS and found they had chased a raccoon up into a hiding place beneath the roof of a porch just a few feet from our brand new chicken coop. We haven't seen a...
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    The Feather Fortress is habitable! (A love note!)

    We didn't finish as far as adding all the pretty siding and such but our very rustic looking "Feather Fortress" is habitable and the chicks have been moved in. Our coop name comes from the questions at the lumbar yard about the supplies we were buying. They asked, "What are you building, a...
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    Play sand, construction sand, natural sand, etc. So confused!!

    Hi all! I have a question. I understand that if I were to go to my home improvement store that "washed construction sand" is preferred over "play sand". But here's my question...My ranch in Central Texas was, once upon a time many eons ago, the beach of the Gulf of Mexico and is therefore has...
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    I finally did it!

    After literally YEARS of lurking on chicken sites and talking to everyone who would listen about chickens and buying a house in the country and sketching coops and so on and so on....I finally brought home chicks! I have taken the plunge and so it begins! Wish me luck all you chicken lovers...
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    I have this crazy idea.....

    So my idea is kind of crazy so I wasn't even quite sure where to post my question....so here it is. Over the years, feral cats have arrived on the ranch and had kittens and then the mamas have disappeared. So I have ended up raising the kittens and have fallen in love with all of them along the...
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    Free range with working cats on the ranch?

    I have a question for all you experienced folks out there.....I have a good number of working cats here on the ranch. They do a good job catching rats, mice, and the occational mole. But as all cats do, they love to sit beneath the bird feeder and do, once in a while, catch a bird and kill it...
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    Official definition of "chicken math"

    A friend who will be helping me build my coop asked how many chickens I planned to have and I told him, “Four to six but that doesn’t take into account chicken math.” When he asked what chicken math was I thought about it for a moment and remembered something called Hofstadter’s Law. It goes…...
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    Howdy from Texas!

    Hi all! I'm Pam. I'm a Texan. I grew up in Houston, went to school in Austin, and rasied my kids in Dallas. My DH and I bought a great ranch in Central Texas (smack dab in the middle of the "Texas Triangle"--formed by San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas). We couldn't decide which Texas city we...
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    Coop placement relative to the house?? (Smell? Noise?)

    Hi all! I've been lurking here on BYC for some time now....dreaming, learning, and planning. I don't have any chickens yet and my coop is only in the drawing board stage. I live on a large ranch and can place my coop either very close to or quite far from the house. I'd like to have it close...
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