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    Swiss chard, silverbeet, beets and beetroot

    Most people with a vegetable garden and chickens know that chickens love Swiss chard. In New Zealand Swiss chard is called silverbeet. I found out it is in the beet family but doesn't grow an edible bulbous root. (Kiwis call beets beetroot.) I needed to clear out some of last year's beets to...
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    A bedtime story

    Imagine if you lived in a really bad neighborhood with lots of marauding drug addicts. Every night before you went upstairs to bed you had to leave your front door wide open and hope the night watchman came around to lock you in safe and sound until morning. When I'm a little late going out to...
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    Diatomaceous Earth in New Zealand?

    Hi to all Kiwis I've been reading of the supersonic benefits of Diatomaceous Earth which seems to sell for around $25 per 50 pounds in the US while the only stuff I can find here is from online health food sellers and costs about $15 per 300 grams. As much as I'd like to try it, that's way too...
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    Ruffled neck feathers, what does it mean?

    These girls (at least we think they are girls) are two of three NH Reds that are about nine weeks old. They get along fine most of the time, they snuggle up in the coop either on the floor or on their perch but when we let them out into the run they run around chasing each other and sometimes...
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    New 4 x 4 coop for 3 NH Reds

    A month and a half ago I posted plans for a small 4 x 4 coop for three New Hampshire Reds and got some good feedback. After three weeks of building and a few weeks of waiting, I now have three New Hampshire Red chickens, about two months old. This is a link to the design topic...
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    advise on color for inside nest box please

    After about 10 days my 4' x 4' x 4' raised coop is almost finished. My husband and I put on the nest box today, it is the Purina style which hangs off the outside. We have a window on the east side of the coop, the nest box is on the opposite wall. I have painted the inside of the coop white...
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    Beautiful new publication on poultry from New Zealand

    I'm not connected with the company that produced this magazine (it is a special edition by a company that produces "NZ Lifestyle Block" in any way but I got my issue today and think it is fabulous. It's called "How to Care for Your Poultry" and has lots of information, beautiful photos and is...
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    Please comment on 4 x 4 coop design

    My husband and I will be getting three New Hampshire Reds in about a month. I've been working on a coop plan and finally have sorted most of it out but we will probably make changes on the fly as we build it. It is basically 4' x 4' but the plans are metric and that roughly equals 1200mm x...
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    I'd like to jump to page in a topic

    Backyard chicken is a great website and I don't even have any chickens yet. Some of the topics have lots of messages and I'd like to be able to jump to a page rather than just click through. The one I'm reading right now "Things you've learned while building your coop" has 32 pages and while I'd...
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    Hi from New Zealand

    I am an American ex-pat and llive on a hectare of land by a river on the West Coast of New Zealand. My husband and I are putting in a half size mandala vegetable garden (six circles of 2 meter diameter each with fruit trees in between). To go with the garden we are making a chicken dome but only...
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