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  1. Firefyter-Emt

    New coop build 4'x8' - barn style design

    I started building my coop a bit late, and the poor chicks have been penned in our garden shed and let out in a small fence enclosure like prison inmates for the last month or so... But tonight, I had enough built on the coop to allow them to start to live in their new home! I have a little...
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    Old member, new coop build

    Hey all... It's been a while since I was here last. I built my first coop back in 2008 and had to close down the egg factory when we moved. Well, this spring we decided it was time to build another coop. I like to over build things, but that's not a bad thing! This coop will be a 4'x8' coop...
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    Still no luck at TSC...

    I was a bit excited today, I called TSC and they said they had more chicks in... I stopped in and they just had some "generic white pullets", Cornish X meat birds and ducks. Dangit, I guess I need to ask WHAT they got in too! I have the brooder all ready to do and even had food in the feeder...
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    Dang.... Chick sell out!

    Hey ya all! Long time no see. So I noticed that TSC had the chicks in this weekend and it was time to pick them up. I got the brooder ready and tonight I brought my daughter with me to pick up the new flock (We culled the flock last fall and have been chick-less all winter) Now just this...
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    Wanted: in NE Conn. Before spring 6 chicks (hens)

    Hey all, with spring sneaking up sooner and sooner, I want to put this out there. I am looking for 6 chicks (female) cold breed / brown egg preferred. Pure breed is not mandatory, but I would like to mix the breeds a bit to help cull them in order to keep a rotation. Last fall we culled our...
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    Processed the whole flock today.

    Well, the girl's stopped laying almost a month and a half ago and I refuse to winter them in feed and heat lamps... So the entire flock was butchered today. (Granted, it was just the six of them) This was my first batch of girls and we did the work ourself with the help of a friend who had...
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    Hello everyone, Thought y'all would get a kick out of this

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    Show Birds???

    Yesterday the family and I were at the Woodstock, Conn. Fair, and while browsing the chicks, I noticed that many of the entries had been mounted many times. Now, I am talking "birds in a show" that had entire backs plucked bare! What the heck? Is this normal to allow birds with such large...
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    Coop build one year later...

    Well, it has been about a year and I figured I would post an update and a photo. Not much has been changed on the coop itself, I did finish the siding around the run door and I have just finished landscaping around the coop. (Mostly to keep the dirt from splashing!) I have to pick up some...
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    Spoiled chickens....

    Geesh, ya give them a light for the winter and when you take it away, you would think they forgot how to use a hen house! I am getting a bit sick of manually putting the chickens INSIDE the coop! It is funny to see them put up such a fight when picked up, wings flapping and all, yet I pluck...
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    What do you think about this?

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5884068.ece Snipit from the article pointing to the above link... Newest Crime Against Political Correctness: Large Eggs These days liberals trying to find new things for us to feel guilty about really have to stretch — but...
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    Silly chickens!

    So we have six chickens and three nest boxes... I figure this should be more than enough, Right? Well my girls have decided that "some" of them need to lay eggs in the tiny space under the nest boxes. Not only that, but they have made a "nest" right under each nest box and now FORCE me to...
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    Offer: plastic type feed bags

    Before I toss these really cool looking layer mash & cracked corn feed bags, does anyone want them for the cost of shipping? I ask here in the hobbies section because I know at least one member makes them into tote bags. If you want just the photos to maybe frame for your coop?? I can cut them...
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    LOL... My wife is now "Top Roo" in the family~

    My wife was helping me in the coop tonight and one chicken tried to get around her. So she tried to stop it by flapping open her coat and saying "Shoo" I thought the poor chicken would drop an egg right there if she could of done so! That dang chicken was planted so close to the ground...
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    Todays funny.

    This morning I let the girls out of the coop and shook the feeder, rinsed the water and then went to check for eggs. My six girls have been giving me about one egg a day. Well, sometimes they are later in the day and the kids collect them so I was not surprised at the lack of an egg. However...
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    Woo Hoo... The girls waited for daylight savings

    Well finally my girls decided to get off "chicken welfare" and start to pay rent. I got my first egg today! Now the other girls need to step up to the plate and start laying themselves!
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    Either I have a mad chicken, or eggs are on the way!

    I noticed that one of my girls are very red in the face & wattles this morning and one more is about half way there. They just hit 19 weeks so I think this is it! This also follows presence of poo in the nest boxes for the last couple of nights. (which is odd, because they always roost on the...
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    Coop lighting, just to check one last time

    Ok, so I decided that I want to light the coop for most of the winter this year. The girls are 17 weeks old and have not started to lay yet and the thought of wintering them without egg production burns me a bit. So I hooked up a timer and a light in the coop today. I have a timer that can...
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    (In the chicken mind) Is he trying to tell us something?

    About a week ago I decided it was time to tell the girls just how this whole freeloading life style is gonna go. I made a couple nice wooden eggs and placed one in each nest after telling them just how, when and where they are to place them. I know they see them, they are leaving feathers...
  20. Firefyter-Emt

    Feed & feather loss.

    Ok, I could be way off base here, but my girls are in thier 9th week (give or take a few days) and have been in the run for two weeks, and less than month in the coop. First to the feather loss. I notice a lot of feathers in the run (soft, downt-type feathers), might be normal, but these are...
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