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    My new Self Serve Egg stand

    Ever since I started raising chickens for Eggs, I have been selling to my co-workers where I work. It started getting to be a chore to find enough customers to buy my abundance of eggs from my flock of about 30 hens. Earlier this spring, the company clamped down on people selling at work (I miss...
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    New hen house build, old trailer frame

    Fellow at work asked if I'd like an old camp trailer frame to use as a utility trailer, being the packrat that I am..... That was last spring, placed the flatbed trailer in the chicken run (it's about 8k sqft), the 30ish birds loved it for shade from summer sun. Our existing coop (was a kids 5 x...
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    Want to introduce feed store chicks to broody before 21 days

    Like it says, we have a hen that just went broody, we were expecting it to happen. We'd like to buy some feed store chicks to add variety to our 30ish hens and couple roo's. The question is, has anyone tried to introduce chicks to a broody before a normal 3 week incubation (we don't really want...
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    Possible broken leg from Hawk attack?

    Our year and half old Cuckoo Marans "Piglet" who is a new mother to 7, 1 month old chicks she hatched out may have a broken leg. Came home this afternoon and found her hobbling on one leg. We were not able to look her over until this evening when time to go in for the night ( we free range our...
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    21 week old Broody !

    This is our first year having a backyard flock and we only recently talked about what to do if one of our 10 hens decided to go broody. We decided to let her hatch out a clutch if one chose to do so. About a week ago one of our Cuckoo Maran (raised from chicks from local feed store in February)...
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    Playhouse into Coop

    Our flock is growing and time has come to improve living conditions. Been watching local Craigslist for a new coop (crazy prices!) when I found this kids playhouse for less then materials cost! Wish I had a pic of when I first picked it up, looked so cute full of kids toys and the wavy...
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    Our new Cuckoo Maran chicks

    Since before we bought our first pullets and rooster a month ago, we talked about also raising chicks. Our local farm supply Wilco and Coastal farm stores offer chicks beginning February and free classes. This time last year, we were signing the papers for our new home in the country and took...
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    Our new Cock met neighbors Cock, Have Video !

    Our new flock is settling into their new home, have about ten days to go before we let them free range. Our close neighbors have many banties that have been free ranging for years. Vicki was able to record a meet up, our rooster (left) is in the enclosed run. Question, any ideas what will happen...
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    How long before allowing free range, and neighbor has free ranging flock

    Okay, we're ready for our first flock! We have all our basic supplies, coop done, read & talked to many about everything we think of and have been scanning our local craigslist for pullets. Couple more questions now the birds are in sight. Our close neighbor has free ranging bantys, that...
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    Natural wood Roosts, heights and angles ?

    Complete newbe here, forgive if I'm asking silly questions. I'm close to being finished with rebuilding what started life as a big rabbit hutch and run and making a proper coop. Rough dimensions are 4x4x4' coop with four 12x12x12" plywood nesting boxes that can be accessed from outside by...
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    Refurbing Rabbit Hutch into Coop ?

    Couple days ago, we answered an ad for three free coops. Just our luck, they were only a few miles away. We could see they were in very bad shape but did have some good materials and between the three we should be able to fab a decent one. Our current thought is to take the red rabbit hutch...
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    Dan & Vicki in Canby OR, New "Chickeneers"

    Greetings to all, Vicki and I are avid gardeners and our recently purchased home in the country is perfect for raising chickens. We are completely new to having our own flock but have been reading and talking with others with chickens, we're confident we can do it without too many problems. We...
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