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    Super free range hens — help!

    We have a small flock of five hens, who are getting more and more brave with exploring our neighborhood. We have 1 acre, and a 4 to 6 foot fence that surrounds about 1/3 acre in the backyard. When we first moved here, ours was the newest house in the neighborhood, built in 2007. Since we got...
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    Do I Need to Set Up a Nest for My Free-Ranging Chickens?

    Our chickens could start laying soon, and they've started ranging out in our very forested, unkempt, past-the-fence back yard. If they lay their eggs out there, we'll never find them because we'd need to bushwhack almost an entire acre, and there's no way we'll do that every day. So. Do we...
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    Tree birds

    Anyone else have birds who like to be up high? Mine will perch in the trees (we had all 6 in this tree tonight), on top of the fence, up in my kid's playhouse, on the backs of patio chairs, etc.
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    Sex question (pretty sure they're all "mutts")

    These two... pullets or cockerels? If they're pullets, then it'll mean the lady who sold them to me hit 100% at 7.5 weeks, which is pretty impressive. :) The auburn one is just stunning; I think the prettiest of the lot, and is always the last one in the coop at night. The black one is getting...
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    Adapting to a Repurposed Pigeon Loft

    Just have to brag on my ladies. We've had them about 7 weeks, and are housing them in a loft we had built for pigeons. In other words, it's way more vertical than if we'd built expecting to get chickens. I did modify it slightly, by affixing some branch bits to a couple of 2 x 4s to make long...
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    Mystery of the Freaked Out Chickens

    This evening, three of our six 15-week-old chickens were on the back porch, I assumed begging for treats, as they do. I had cut up some tomatoes to take to them earlier in the night, but all six were making a bee-line to hide behind the storage shed for some reason, so I saved them. The...
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    New to the BYC game!

    Hi! I'm Laura and I live in Jonestown, TX; just outside of Austin, down the road from Lake Travis. We have about an acre, 1/3ish of which is fenced, and recently got 6 pullets (hopefully) from a very neat lady who sends eggs to local elementary schools every spring so they can incubate, hatch...
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