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    Broody Hen abandons eggs after two weeks

    This is our second abandonment by first time broody hens. So far in our chicken project we've had two successful broods. Both hens were just over a year old, one barnyard and one Buff Orpington. We want to morph our flock to pure BuffOrp's and we bought a dozen BO eggs for broody hens twice...
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    Might chickens eat tarpaper(construction paper)?

    We just bought a nice little building for chickens. It's unfinished inside and the tarpaper (construction paper) is exposed. We've begun to worry that our chickens might just tear up or eat the tarpaper. We're going to put linoleum over the floor, but didn't plan to finish the interior walls...
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    Ordinary electric fence charge controller for electric mesh fencing?

    We have two electric fence chargers that we previously used to keep deer out of the garden. One requires 120v AC and the other is solar. I'm hoping to use these with electric net fencing for chickens, but I'm not sure if special chargers are required. It seems these would be OK. They stopped...
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