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    New addition to our fleet...

    We picked this up on Tuesday, and have spent the week cleaning it from top to bottom and fixing a few things. It isn't completely clean in the pics, the top of the walls on the back stalls hadn't been scrubbed yet. Can't wait to get it out on the road...
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    Hoop coops - they aren't just for chickens! Easy goat shelter...

    My husband and built this over the last few days. Only took a few hours, and less than $100 in new supplies. Most of what we used was leftover from other projects, or typical supplies we keep on hand. It measures 8x8 at the base, and is 6'2" tall at the peak. It has an elevated plywood platform...
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    Shower Curtain update

    Late last fall, I lined my run with heavyweight shower curtain to "winterize" it. And what a winter it has been - colder, snowier, icier, windier.... Today I took the shower curtains down and am storing them for next year. They survived in perfect shape! I will definitely be doing the same thing...
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    What are they?

    These chicks are 2 weeks old tomorrow. Any clues what they are? Should all be purebred...
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    Another "shower curtain" winterization...

    Another poster on BYC has suggested and used clear vinyl shower curtains to winterize their run. It sounded like an affordable and durable idea, so I gave it a shot... It wasn't as hard to install as I had imagined, it was actual super easy on the 2nd section when I started at the top instead of...
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    Converting run into winter housing - can it be done?

    PREFACE: *** All my chickens free-range on 5+ acres during the day, andvoluntarily return to the coop at dusk, where they are locked in until sunrise the next day. Predators are not a concern, as I have a very protective LGD*** One of my hens has gone broody, and is sitting on 15 eggs. I...
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    Training Silkies???

    I have an Egg Cart'n tractor that I have a Silkie pair and a Salmon Favorelle hen in. They have been in it for 3 months now, and STILL cannot/will not go up the ramp each evening to the "coop" portion. I have to physically catch them, and put them "upstairs" each evening. When I had my layers...
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    Wheelbarrow (garden cart) brooder

    Earlier this week, it was obvious my 6 chicks had outgrown their 105qt plastic tote brooder. It was time to move them into larger accomodations. In the past, I had used a metal water tank, but I really did not feel like wrestling that out of the muddy horse pasture, cleaning it, letting it dry...
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    Advice on meat bird coop and run, please?

    So this time around, we are building a coop. In OKC, I converted a 3' x 10' section of the garden shed into a coop (it was under the workbench), and while it worked well, there were a few things I would have changed about it. I do NOT want to pay for a pre-made shed + delivery here in MD, so...
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    New member

    Hello all! I am a military wife and mother of four living on a hobby farm in Oklahoma. We have 3 horses, 1 dog, 3 cats, 2 hamsters, 3 gerbils, a very full Koi pond, and raise registered Dexter Cattle. We've wanted chickens for a long, long time, but just added them to our "family" a few months...
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