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    What do I need to do to prepare run?

    We are building a rotating paddock system for my chickens (still currently "chicks"), total area is roughly 90'x56' divided into three or four paddocks. The ground is mostly a grass/clover mix. I tried to put down chicken forage mix but some stupid Canada geese came and ate most of it.... What...
  2. J

    Normal chick poop?

    OK I have a bit of a weird questions but.... what is chick poop supposed to look like? I've had horses, donkeys, assorted other animals, but never birds. To me, loose manures are bad, but I know birds have obviously very different excretory processes. I have five week olds right now, just...
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    Pullet, cockrel, or standby?

    I have a friend who raises meat birds semi-commercially, and she said anything that has red on it before 10 weeks is going to be a cockrel. I have longtime hobby farm chicken friends who agree. So either I am the unluckiest of unlucky at picking chicks from the farm store and managed to get 50...
  4. J

    Hello! Chicken no0b here!

    Wanted chickens for years (had a barn rooster 15 years ago) and they were on my farm's 2020 "to do" list. So, I got chicks and big hopes, still building the coop but it will be done soon, and then the five-nearly-six week olds can move out into that and out of the big water trough in my tack...
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