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    Success!

    We’ve been raising chickens for two years now and decided to hatch our own. It’s been so successful. We are at two dozen now with fifteen waiting to hatch. I made an incubator and hatched one and lost one. I have four eggs left in it. We’ve only lost four chickens. One I had to put down...
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    Sad day

    I had to put down our first roster we had. He was almost a year old but he lost being alpha and other rosters were picking on him so much that he lost half his weight and even had a bleeding home in his head from being pecked. We’ve been raising chickens for about ten months now. The lessons...
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    Heat or not

    We just started our chicken adventures. I built this coop which is about 8x10 and open to the north. Just outside of the coop is a 12x19 run with a shed roof covering six feet from the coop out. My question is-should I build a wall and a door to the coop for the winter? I’m in Iowa so it can get...
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    More chicks than planned

    My wife and I are new to chickens. I finished a large chicken coup a few weeks ago and my wife went with a friend to look at chicks. We agreed on 12, she bought home 42! LoL. It’s been two weeks now and we’ve had no problems that we can’t handle. They’re growing great and were able to hold a...
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    I built my first coup!

    I built our first chicken coup! It’s pretty big at 12x19 with 6x8 housing. I put chicken wire on top and buried it in the ground. A friend who raises chickens is going to give us three but we’re going to get a dozen more. Wish us luck.
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