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    Small flock and two roosters in need of new home

    I am near Culpeper Va, I have a small clock 14 hens and two roosters. I love my chickens but I have been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and although I feel fine now I know that in the coming months I will get worse. I have contacted several organizations looking for help and hope one of...
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    What the Devil??

    Found this coming out of the ground in my garden? DH thinks it looks like a long horn.
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    Anyone familiar with tile saws?

    We just bought some 3" porcelian tile to do our kitchen countertops, now we need to find a tile saw to do some diagonal cuts. I've looked at bridge saws but I'm not sure how well they would hold down a small tile while cutting and I don't want to hold a 3" tile with my bare hands while I cut...
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    Help with Electronet fence

    We bought the Priemer one electro net fencing, 2 25' pieces and 1 100' piece. We tested the energizer with both of the 25' pieces and it worked fine stretched out along our garden. We set up our fencing around our coop and run and tested it with the 5 light tester that we got from them and...
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    Young Hens and Older Roo

    We have nine 8 week old hens that we got from MPC. I found someone who has a great roo that is about a year old. Can I integrate an older roo into a younger flock? I'd love to have a roo, DH says no roos. I need to know if this will work first before I start to campaign.
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    Blue Footed Raccoon?

    Wednesday I was painting the trim inside the new coop, when I was finished I had to rush off and meet DH at Lowes to pick up 2x4s for the run. I left an empty paint can to dry out near the dog fence that we put up to keep the dogs out of the woods and away from the ticks. Found this the next...
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    Electric fence Battery

    Can you use a regular 12V car battery?
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    Chicks Are Here!!!

    We picked up our 10 babies at the post office this morning, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 SLW, 2 GLW, 2 Easter Eggers, 2 Welsummers, they were all fine. They all drank water and started to eat almost right away. One of the chicks seemed to be out of it but within an hour it was up and running around...
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    Bears and Windows

    I posted this in the coop construction forum and did not get any responses. We bought crank out windows for the coop thinking it would be great as they would keep most of the rain out, we plan to back them with 1/4" hardware cloth on the inside. But lately I've become increasingly concerned...
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    Crank Out Window Security

    We bought crank out windows for the coop thinking it would be great as they would keep most of the rain out, we plan to back them with 1/4" hardware cloth on the inside. But lately I've become increaingly concerned about the black bear that visits us on occasion, I'm afraid that the open...
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    I Hate My Glasses!

    We just got our new glasses in January and I am having the hardest time getting adjusted to these glasses. I got two pair, one for distance and one for reading. By the end of the day I have a stiff neck, my eyes ache and my head hurts from the reading glasses. Anyone else have this problem...
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    Hen and Chicks Kitchen Canister

    Check out the cute canister set on Ebay! http://cgi.ebay.com/HATCHING-CHICK-AND-HEN-CANISTER-SEARS-ROBUCK-CO-1979-/300508373946?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f7b1e3ba
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    Household Tasks

    I was wondering how all of you divide up your household tasks or even if you do. In our house its just DH and me, DH does most of the cooking, takes out the trash and does the laundry, I do the house cleaning, pay the bills and walk the dogs, other things we do together or who ever gets...
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    Electric Fence Questions?

    Our coop is almost finished, just a few more things to do next spring and we can get our first flock, I'm excited. Thanks to the many suggestions and ideas I got from BYC I feel like we have been able to predator proof adequately, ie 1/4" hardware cloth around bottom of coop, and across the...
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    Leaking Roof

    My small garden shed (that I have my eye on for my second coop, but don't tell DH) is leaking and we can't figure out where it is coming in. The roof is a peaked roof and the leak is near the edge about 6 inches up, between the 2nd and 3rd rafter. We bought a gallon of Stop leak for roofs last...
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    OK to have a slanted roof on a 12'x12' coop?

    Help, we are in the final stages of planning our walk in coop, and almost ready to start building, but we are stuck on the roof design. We were originally planning on a peaked roof (not sure what the technical term is, sorry), but lately I've been thinking that a slanted roof (low on one side...
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    Insulate the Coop Floor?

    Anyone insulate the floor in their coop? Our coop will be 12'x12', we have plenty of ventilation planned and will be insulating the walls. It will be a walk in with a shed roof. The foundation will be concrete blocks and treated 4x4s, so it will not be more than about a foot off the ground...
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    Proposed Coop LayOut - Comments/Suggestions?

    We are going to start building our walk in coop this summer. Since it will be close to the garden and we are in need of some more storage there, we decided to make the coop big enough for storage for the garden stuff and with an area for storage for the coop. I like the idea of collecting...
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