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    Turkeys for sale and free chickens in Frederick, Md.

    We are going to be moving in the next couple of months, and we would like to find homes for our flock. We currently have a trio of standard bronze turkeys that are just a year old so should start breeding here very shortly. This would be a good start up for someone as these birds are very tame...
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    Hard cooked eggs

    We find the best way to cook eggs in the shell is to steam. It seems like we can get good peelers even if they are only a day or two old. We load about 12 or eighteen in our steamer pan and cook for 15 minutes. Then submerge them in ice cold water until they are cool enough to peel and voila...
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    Chicken tractor

    Here is a pic of a chicken tractor I built a few years ago. We never keep chickens in full time we mainly use it for transitioning from the brooder to free range. We have also used it for isolating new birds and for breaking up a broody hen or two. We originally built it for starting our cornish...
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    Pics of our coop

    I went down this morning and took some pics of the coop. It is a bit nasty out this morning so bear with me. I built this coop for free from wood I scavenged from construction sites. Also the bucket feeders are fast and easy to make if you have access to free 5 gallon buckets. Here is the front...
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    Deep litter method

    We use the deep litter method in our chiken coop. It saves quite a bit of work and it is very clean and efficient. First off we Clean our coop out once a year. Usually in the spring so we can use the litter in the garden. We shovel all the litter out, wash down the walls with a weak bleach...
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    Space needed for chickens

    I thought I would start this one of with my opinion on size of coops. I would say the minimum amunt of space for happy chickens would be 4 square feet per bird. This of course if you are offering a small outdoor run of about the same size. Now we free range our chickens during the day so we...
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    Maryland

    We are in Md. just west of Frederick in a little town named Jefferson. We usually keep about thirty chickens or so and a half dozen Turkeys. We love it up here in the catoctin mountains but are planning on moving further west to get more land. So Missouri here we come! Chris
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