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  1. megalomaniac

    Not too bad for less than $100

    Just finished my latest coop for single pair matings of large fowl orpingtons. I ended up with a grand total of $96 in materials (another $6 for 4 cinder blocks the coop will be elevated on when attached to the run). It's a 3x3 ft coop with 1/2" pressure treated plywood for the floor, walls...
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    Cheap coop, still fairly decent...

    Here's the style coop I've been using for 4-6 birds (LARGE run, warm weather... they only eat, sleep, and nest in the coop in south MS) 4x4 ft exterior siding, painted with oil-based barn paint. 2x2" for all the framework 3/8" pressure treated plywood for the floor with 2x2" pressure treated...
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    Man, I hate shipped eggs... and a question.

    Just got in a dozen eggs shipped in from about 100 miles away. Only one day in transit, but one egg was exploded, another 3 with major cracks/dents, and 2 more with hairline cracks. Leaves me with 6 intact eggs settling before going in the bator. A few of the eggs have some of the white on...
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    What killed my rooster? Updated

    Got up this morning to give the kids a little scratch and freshen up the water jugs at 7:30. I heard the hens in the coop making alarm sounds, so I knew something was up. When I got to the coop, all the hens (12) were still in the coop, which is very unusual for them. I figured out what was...
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    Frizzle experience... are they pickers???

    I came home after work today, checked on the kids outside. In one coop (10sf), I've got eleven 4 week olds that I moved from inside the house to the playhouse coop approx 5 days ago. These 11 birds were hatched together, raised together, and all got along well (until today). I initially found...
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    kids, chicks, blocks, dinosaurs... what a combo

    Here's what my kids were up to the other day. They have had some serious fun with the incubator and offspring
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    EE egg color heritable?

    expecting to hatch my first ameracaunas/EE's tomorrow. Started with a dozen of varied colors... mix of very light blue, fairly intense blue, and olive. Unfortunately, the deepest blue eggs ended up being infertile, with only the olive and light blue eggs continuing to develop (8 out of the...
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    Went home at lunch to check on the chicks- glad I did

    I'm just about finished with the permanent coop outside, still have interior paint to go, but my 12 6 wk old chicks were getting too crowded in the cardboard box they've grown up in, so I built a lightweight tractor 4x4x8' to put them in outside. Yesterday was thier first day outside, they had...
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    My first hatch- a success.... sort-of

    Just finishing my first hatch since I was a little kid. Homemade styrofoam incubator. Started with 14 eggs from a local breeder. 10 he had collected in the prior few days to starting the process, and we picked up 4 fresh eggs that afternoon out of the yard. Mix of black australorps and buff...
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    How's this temp range for incubating eggs?

    Great forum guys, just found it last week... I'm planning raising my own eggs for the family, building a coop and run on my 2 acres, and stocking it with 6 or 8 hens (was thinking 2 red stars, 2 white leghorns, 2 ameracaunas, and 2 buff orphingtons.... In any case, I've got 3 kids and would...
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