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    Disable pullet shut door

    Hello Those of you that have pullet shut doors- do you know off the top of your head his to temporarily disable them? We are having extensive landscaping done tomorrow and I had to take down the electronegative run temporarily. I want everyone to stay locked up in the coop until the work is...
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    Preparing for floods

    So, Cyclone Debbie is working her way through QLD right now. Flooding is forecast for our area starting on Thursday and I'm trying to figure out what the heck to do with everyone. Right now I have 3 separate pens of birds. Pen 1: small tractor with cull roosters. Worst case maybe I will...
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    Anyone seen this plucker??

    So, we are at the time of year where we have the harder aspect of chicken math. We have 4 spare cockerels of various breeds going to freezer camp in the next 2ish weeks and I'm trying to get all my supplies together. I do have a drill style plucker, but could never really seem to get it to...
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    Integrating adult roosters

    Has anyone had success integrating a new adult rooster into an established flock? My gut is telling me that this would be likely to go poorly. We currently have 16 chickens- 4 of which (2 capons and 2 cockerels) are about to go into a separate pen for finishing/butchering. That will leave us...
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    Minorca Chicks

    Those of you that have raised Minorcas- do you find the pullets can occasionally have larger combs than you would expect? I purchased 4 sexed Minorca pullets (day olds) from a commercial hatchery. 3 are 3 weeks old and 1 is 4 weeks old. I've noticed in the past week that 2 have much larger...
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    Integration issues

    I started integrating my first batch of pullets this weekend. For the past month, all the chicks have been in the grow out pen which shares a wire wall with the big chooks coop. The coop is 30 sq feet. They are only confined there to sleep and have free choice access to an electronet run which...
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    Araucanians chick

    Hello, I would appreciate any and all guesses about my 3 Araucana chicks! They are 4.5 weeks old. 100% sure the black one is a roo. 95% sure the lavender is a pullet. Coin toss on the duck wing.[/IMG][/IMG][/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]
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    Black copper Marian's chick color??

    So really stupid question here, but BCM chicks should always be BLACK right??? In the process of hatching shipped eggs that were quite dear to purchase here in Oz and the first chick came out like this. Is it possible to have a "throwback" wheaten or white gene from two black parents or was I...
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    Greenhouse frame coops

    Hello, Looking for some advice from those of you that have converted the cheap metal greenhouse frames into a coop. I'm looking for ideas to upcycle/cheaply build a second coop to house young birds until they are ready to join the main flock, or potentially to use as a separate breeding pen...
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    Lost power :(

    So, last night was the start of day 19 (I set my eggs in the evenings). I woke up this morning to find out that we blew a circut breaker. I went to bed at 10 and got up at 5, so maximum time it was out was 7 hours. When I got everything restarted, incubator temp was 27C but rapidly went back...
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    Saving the Landscaping

    Has anyone found any method (other than confinement) of protecting your landscaping from the chooks? Our chickens (3 ISA Browns, 1 BCM Roo) have a 1x3 meter 2 story aviary/tractor style coop, and I let the free range on 2000 ACRES EVERY DAY!!!!! So why, why, why must they eat my petunias and...
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    Testing the auto turner

    I am working with one of those cheap chinese incubators. Does anyone have any good suggestions on testing the auto egg turner? I'm not convinced its working. The incubator holds 48 eggs, but I will only be setting 8. I'm considering propping the corner with a book and swapping sides a few...
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    Slow Chick?

    Looking for some advice on my little flock. Here is the background info: We incubated 23 shipped eggs and 1 local egg. Ended up with a power failure, and a bad hatch. 1 local egg (Araucana) and 1 shipped (BCM) hatched 1 and 2 days late, but without assistance. I purchased 3, 5 day old Isa...
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    Exploding egg risk?

    Hello all, I'm here incubating my first set of "important" eggs- day 13. I have incubated and hatched several clutches using crappy incubators for a variety of school projects with wildly successful results... which I chalk up to the fact that they were "low risk" projects. Now, I have 24...
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    Baking with your eggs

    Hi Everyone! So, I kept 2 black broiler hens and 4 cornish that were destined for my freezer (and technically still are!).... well lo and behold, a few of them are now laying and I've gotten about a dozen eggs this week! My question is, do you find if you use your fresh eggs for baking that...
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    Dark pin feathers

    Hi All, I'm looking for some advice on plucking dark feathered chickens. I have 2 black broiler hens and 4 standard cornish hens left from my fall project. They are about 5 months old now. The Cornish still look like midgets, especially compaired to the broilers. About 8 weeks ago, we...
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    Coccidiosis

    Sorry if this has been addressed in previous posts, I couldn't exactly find what I was looking for! I had 25 chicks arrive a week ago today. 10 CX, 10 black broilers, 5 std cornish (2 dark, 3 buff). 24 hours after arrival, I lost a dark cornish, and I thought, ah, such is the stress of...
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    Meat Project #2

    So, meat project #1 finished about 2 months ago. We have been sadly chickenless while nibbling away at the delicious goodness in the freezer. Now that the wedding is over, I am allowed to get more chickens! I still lost the battle on the laying hens, but a friend of mine has tons of excess...
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    "Recycled" commercial layers

    So, now that my meat project is ending (finally in phase 3 and down to 4 chickens :( ), I was scouring craigslist the other day and one of the commercial layer facilities down the street from me is selling off 1 year layers that have just molted. Has anyone every successfully "converted" a...
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    Singleton pullet/hen

    Hi All, So I started this spring with 12 birds for a meat project. 4 of which went to freezer camp as cornish game hens, 4 more to go a week from Wednesday, leaving my 4 comparison birds- 2 BR and 2 RIR, which will be scheduled for freezer camp when they're big enough. I never intended on...
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