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  1. AliP

    Advice needed for coop/run add-on

    Hi, all! I'm not new to BYC but haven't posted for a while... My question at the moment is this: we have a coop and run that can accomodate 12 hens easily. My concern is that they have the run down to dirt and I am reluctant to allow the girls to free-range. In the past we have had a record...
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    Snake needs to die....how?

    OK, this isn't strictly chicken related, but I thought I would ask you all... I was walking from the hen house to our house this morning and saw something sticking out of the bluebird box hole. Thinking it was a baby fledging, I went closer to find it was the front several inches of a snake...
  3. AliP

    If you won the lottery...

    and money wasn't an issue, what would you use to make the "perfect" predator-proof run and coop? Alison
  4. AliP

    New chicks arrived yesterday - can I cook them egg yolks?

    My dad tells me how much the chicks on the farm loved egg yolks when he was growing up. Is it too soon to be giving my new babies "table food?" If not, what else can I cook for them? Scrambled eggs, oatmeal? Veggies, yet? Rehydrated meal worms (bought for the blue birds, but I'm sure they...
  5. AliP

    Babies are HERE!!! YAY!

    Oh Happy Day! After what seemed like a lifetime waiting, I got a message Saturday morning that my chicks had shipped, and I picked them up this morning (Monday) at 6am. When I went in the loading dock entrance to the PO, I was greeted by the happy sounds of not only my 16 but two other orders...
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    15 chicks coming - how big of a coop for 15 standard hens?

    Hello, and Happy Friday! I'm a first time (soon to be) chicken mom...and am getting a little crazy. I bought/ordered a 4x6 coop from a local Amish gentleman and am scheduled to pick it up tomorrow. I decided this week that I want my girls to have more room and am "trading up" to either 6x8...
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    Mixed chick order - have I lost my mind?

    OK, unfair question, I have definitely lost my mind, but I ordered these pullets from McMurray to arrive in early May: 1 Black Minorca, 1 Buff Rock, 2 Buff Laced Polish, 1 Blue Andalusian, 1 Golden Penciled Hamburg, 1 partridge Rock, 1 White Wyandotte, 1 Silver Spangled Hamburg, 1 Lakenvelder...
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    Hello from snowy PA!

    Well, I have been talking about getting chickens for a few a years now, and have finally decided to take the plunge! I got a peep every spring from my grandfather when I was a little girl, and now that I'm not so l little anymore, I am finally in a place where I can manage it! But even with a...
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