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    Whee is best price for plain cartons?

    What are your best sources for inexpensive, plain 12-egg cartons in quantities of, say, 500? Nothing fancy, just plain cartons - paper or plastic, matters not to me. Thanks for your tips. I really want to find a good source cheaper than eggcartons.com, if there is one.
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    Predator chewed its way out of trap; going electric; how many joules needed?

    I lost 17 chickens to what I think are raccoons. At least one raccoon(?) got in through an enlarged opening in my 2x4 welded wire, where one of the crap welds failed. I fixed that and inspected elsewhere. I set a hav-a-hart trap outside. About five nights later something got into the trap, ate...
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    Chickens Not Laying Following Massacre

    I had 30 hens. SOMEHOW a 'coon got into the pen through a very small breach in the 2x4 welded wire (made in China, no doubt, but that's another forum). I know the spot, because we found feathers stuck to the wire there where one hen was pulled through. Of the 30 hens, 17 were murdered. The...
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    Purchase a small coop near Manchester, NH

    So I was going to build my daughter and fam a small coop for 4-5 hens, but I dislocated a finger and cannot hammer for a couple of weeks. Anybody know where I can find a good pre-built coop in Manchester NH area?
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    Is this a rooster?

    It never crows, it never mounts the hens, seems not overly aggressive, but it has spurs. Is that always a tell-tale?
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    Spurs: yes; Crowing: no; Mounting hens: no

    It's an EE - but is it definitely a roo? Is the presence of spurs 100% tell-tale of a roo? This thing has never crowed like a roo, does not mount hens, I have no fertilized eggs...
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    Hen stays in next box 24/7

    One of my 20 hens stays in an upper level nest box all the time now, has been there for over a week. I scoot her out and she goes out into the run with the others and eats.... within a half hour, she is back in the next box as if she is laying. No eggs, though. She appears healthy, walks okay...
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    When can my 12 chicks move out of their partition to join 14 layers?

    Help, experts! I have had my 12 new chicks (May 2) in a partition on the floor in a good-sized coop with their own water and chick feed. The 14 layers come and go as they please, eyeing the chicks through the hardware cloth. Their layer feed has been outside the coop. The chicks are getting big...
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    Any chicken-scrap veggies not good?

    I get a couple of bags a week from a local church's kitchen after Wednesday night dinners. Carrot peels, lettuce and celery stumps, cabbage remains, onion remains, etc. etc. etc. Anything I should NOT be throwing to the chickens?
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    How to get them to use the stacked nest boxes?

    I have 14 hens. No roos (anymore). Using deep litter of pine shavings, now about 6-8 inches deep throughout. Got my first two eggs yesterday (found in the middle of the coop floor). Today there were four eggs. Two had fallen through the roost to the shaving-covered floor (fenced off from hens)...
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    What breed? (or mix?)

    Thanks for your help. This roo hatched in June '10 from MPC.
  12. PJCluck

    Chicks with older birds...food...

    I will be ordering a new batch of chicks next spring. My 15 chickens will then be a year old and of course on layer feed. When the chicks come out of the brooder (and eventually commingle with the layers) and I start them in on grower feed, how do I get them to stay with the grower feed and the...
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    Bent toes

    Two of my 16 birds suddenly have what look like bent toes (each has one bent toe), as if they were caught in a fence or the roost somehow. They seem to be walking okay still. Should I splint them or just leave them alone?
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    "Nest pads" or straw or excelsior in nest boxes?

    My 8x20 coop and 20x50 run are done, indoor and outdoor waterers flowing, the birds love it all. Eggs are due in November or thereabouts. I have my 3x3 nest boxes built and ready to install. They have a slight incline so the eggs roll to the back (well, it's the plan, anyway...designed from...
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    Now Kinda Worried About the Under-construction Run

    My new (yet unfinished) run is about 18' x 50', with a 6-foot-high 'roof' - all of 2"x4" welded wire fencing. I am making a 4-foot apron of same 2x4 welded wire fencing. Will have a 3-foot strip of hardware cloth around the lower part of the walls. All to be held together by a few thousand loxit...
  16. PJCluck

    How to connect strips of welded wire fencing...

    I asked before, not sure anyone saw it, got no answers. What's the best way to fasten strips of 60-inch welded wire fencing together for the 'roof' of my run? Also to connect an apron of 48-inch welded wire fence to the bottom of the existing fence? I'd use plain wire, and tie it all along...
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    what to use for connectors for steel wire 2x4 fencing?

    I am making the run now. I have lots of rolls of 2x4 steel wire fencing for sides and overhead and apron. What should I use to hold the lengthwise sides together? Somebody on here mentioned something like some kind of snap rings but Home Depot doesn't seem to have anything like that. I do not...
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    How Soon Can Chicks Go Outside Coop

    I have finished the coop here in eastern Massachusetts - it's pretty large and my 16 4-week-old chicks love it. I am beginning work on the run now. I will have two side-by-side runs so I can alternate 2-3 months each. The runs will be predator-proof (owls, hawks, fisher cats, coons, coyotes...
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