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    Who else doesn't name their chickens? Anyone?

    At my place, the chickens are all just collectively referred to as chickens and I haven't seen a need to name them. Quite the opposite. In fact, naming them makes it tougher (for some, not necessarily for myself) to harvest the birds for food, so I have forbidden anyone from naming them...
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    A short, but cautionary tale...

    A friend of mine was over recently and wanted to be in with the chickens. No big deal. The aviary is about 5,000 square feet and 14' high, so there's plenty of room to feel as "one" with the birds without crowding or scaring them. In fact, they love when people come in because we usually have...
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    A passive solar air heater for the coop!

    This is the passive solar air heater that will be warming my coop this winter. It's a fully custom DIY design. There's a few other images of the building process in that same gallery, if you're interested. Check the descriptions for details on how it works.
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    Which of these is the cockerel?

    I have 5 Gold Laced Wyandottes that are 6 weeks old. Looking at pictures of this breed full-grown, I see that the roosters do have a brown head. On the other hand, it's my understanding that the hens will have more lacing than roosters. In my juvenile birds, the ones with the brown heads are...
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    5 weeks old and off to the coop!

    I've been eagerly awaiting getting the chickens outside into the coop. And that day finally arrived! Here's most of them. They don't even mind that I'm standing in the coop with them. Check out the photos on my profile for progress pictures and other random contraptions I'm working with.
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    Shout out from the Pacific Northwest!

    Hey everyone, I've been surfing the site for months now and learning tons about keeping chickens. All the while, I've been searching for a new property with acreage. I've lived the last handful of years in a tightly-packed, very typical, Central Oregon subdivision -- it's 1/10th of an acre...
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