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    Rusty watering Can

    Hello All, Been a while since I was on the forum, but figured there was no better place to come back to with a question. I have a galvanized metal waterer for my chickens. For the past couple of years, I have switched back and forth between a plastic one for the summer and the metal one in the...
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    Making chicken stock or soup

    I recently posted a question regarding cooking my recently processed chickens. This is my first try at having chickens and after producing eggs for three years, I decided to process the ones I had and get a new flock for eggs. I am now trying to cook the chickens I have. After my first...
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    1st Time processing chickens

    I had my first set of chickens processed last week. I had 4 layers that were about three years old and their egg production was just about done. So, I thought I would go ahead a process them and get new layers. I separated one into pieces and tried to fry it. The meat was to tough to bite...
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    My new coop

    I finally moved our chickens into our new coop yesterday. It has been a long process and wanted to finally share some pictures of my coop. Our chickens had been in a temporary pen taking up about half of my feed room in my horse barn. It work out fine, but it was a pain to get the eggs and...
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    Greenish/grey hard boiled egg

    I am not sure if this is the right category, but I have a question about an egg I peeled this morning. I was making hard boiled eggs and one of them had a greenish maybe grey tint to it. One end looked like it had air bubbles in the white part which now had the off color to it. It didn't...
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    Cats in the hen house

    I am starting to see a number of mice in my feed room where I have my chickens. To keep the story short, in my horse barn, I sectioned off part of the feed room to make a small pen for my chickens. Basically small wooden frame with wire to keep the chickens contained. I am starting to see...
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    Egg size changing with better weather

    Now that the weather has finally gotten better, my hens have been out of the coop free ranging more then in the early spring. They are digging and scratching and eating all around my barn and pasture. They are also starting to get some scraps from the garden of kale and collards. I remember...
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    Freezing Egg/Egg near roost

    Hello All, I have a two part question. I think I have the answer to the frozen egg from another thread, but my question is how do you know if an egg is frozen if the shell is not cracked? I have had several eggs over the last couple of days that have cracked and frozen. We have had a our...
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    Anyone have chickens that love collard greens?

    My chickens love collard greens. They go after it like nothing else when I put some in their coop. My daughter and I planted a fall garden for her agriculture class at school. We have broccoli, kale, and collards. I threw some old broccoli from the summer that had sent off shoots when the...
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    Cracked Egg

    So, my hens are doing a great job and egg production is increasing and getting steady. I only have 4 hens so I mean I am going from 1 in the morning to 2 and this morning I had 3. I have two nesting boxes for the 4 hens. Since I was only getting one or two a day, the eggs were in one or the...
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    1st Egg

    I was happy to find my first egg in my coop this morning. I had posted last week that I hadn't gotten anything and from advice here, I just had to be patient. At least one of the girls came through this morning. So now that I have my first egg, I have a question about the bloom and washing...
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    No Eggs yet

    Ok, I have my 4 pullets that around 22 weeks old and no eggs yet. They have access to all the feed they want thanks to the great bucket feeder design that I read about on this forum and constant fresh water. I have my row of X-Mas lights strung up on a timer that gets them 14 hrs of daylight...
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    Nesting box to shallow?

    I got my 4 pullets last Friday and I think they are settling nicely. I understand from Southern States that they will not start to lay for probably two more weeks. I have them in a temporary coop inside my feed room while I complete my bigger coop. They have taken to the roost bar well and...
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    Cedar stump for perch

    A friend of mine gave me 4 cedar log billets that are about 18 inches tall. I was going to sit a large tree branch across two of them to make an easy perch for my chickens. In recent post on what to put in a coop, cedar came up as something that might not be healthy for the chickens. I think...
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    How Much Head room

    My 4 pullets are arriving Friday and I have a temporary safe coop for them till my larger coop is complete. My question is how much head room do they need to sit on a perch? I have plenty of square footage for 4 chickens. The space is 32 square ft. but the top of the enclosure is 4 ft off...
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    Anty relation between other animals and lack of predators?

    This might be an odd question, but I thought I would ask. I will preface it by saying I plan to make my coop and run as predator proof as possible and not looking for an answer that will allow me to cut back on my plan to house the chickens safely. So here is my question. Has any seen...
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    Security of Coop doors

    Hello All, As I start to complete my plans for my coop, I am to the point of research and considering designs for the doors for the chickens to go in and out of the coop. I like many of the ideas that have been posted that show a simple slide door that is lifted up a down to let the chickens...
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    Just starting out

    Hello All, I am just starting to plan for have a small backyard flock. I started with the site just looking at the great chicken coop designs and then discovered all the other resources for raising backyard chickens. I am in the planning stage right now and this summer plan on building my coop...
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