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    Free chickens and coop in Media PA

    Hi all, We are getting ready to move and need to find a new home for our chickens and their coop. We have five bantams and one large Cochin. The coop is approximately 3.5' deep x 7' long, on stilts, with a shingle roof and an outside enclosure of approximately the same dimensions made...
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    lost my five laying hens this AM. ws it a dog?

    something killed my six laying hens this morning between 7 and 9am. i forgot to close the enclosure gate last night. the coop itself has an automatic chicken door that closes between 9pm and 6am, but when it opened this morning they had free run of the yard. they never leave the yard, so...
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    how do you all buy just a few chicks?

    howdy all, i want to get six female chicks for january or at the latest mid-february delivery, but every hatchery i have looked at has minimum order of 15 or 20 or 25. ideal poultry will include RIR males for warmth, but then i am stuck with having to find a home for them later. what do you...
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    new coop is finished, i used many suggestions form folks here

    hey all, have a look at my BYC page to see the new coop. i used a lot of suggestions from folks here on the forum, both direct advice and things i gleaned from reading hundreds of posts. thanks a lot to everybody for helping me with this. i still have to finish the HW cloth and 12" buried...
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    quick nest-box-orientation question

    which way should i arrange them... side-by-side: or over / under: i will secure them better when i finalize which way to go. these are for six large chickens. thanks, -eric
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    yet another automatic door question

    howdy all, i was thinking about using a plastic cutting board for the automatic coop door. it's 14h x 11w but it's only 1/4" thick and not very heavy. how heavy should the door be to lessen the chances of a predator pushing it up in its track from outside? i have an add-a-motor kit on the...
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    almost finished with coop. need advice on roosts

    howdy all, i have the new coop separated into a lighter half and a darker half, but not by much. the nests will go in the darker side and the roosts will go on the other side so as not to be too close to the nests. in the pictures below you can see the setup as i've laid it out. the...
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    do i need to divide my coop into light and dark sections?

    howdy all, here's what i am almost finished with: the right-end will be where i cut the door opening and it will lead out to an enclosure. i was going to put the roosts in the right section and then put a divider between the right and the left halves so the left side will be darker...
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    need a few bits of advice on new coop interior

    howdy, i will be taking advantage of a few days off to make a sizeable dent in the new coop project (figuratively). i hope to get the roof on, but before that i want to make sure i have the interior all figured out. looking at the pictures below, i want to keep the left-hand section...
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    what predator did this?

    howdy, i went out to let the A-frame's ramp down this morning and found that something had dug under the coop, most likely to get the table scraps i put in there yesterday, which included meat. thank goodness i did not forget to pull the ramp up last night... sometimes i do forget. i moved...
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    natural light options

    hi all, here's the skeleton of the coop i am building from salvaged stuff (and some necessarily new stuff): i am thinking of putting the window on the right side of the front, and also putting a soda-bottle-light on the roof over that same side of the coop. then i will leave the left half...
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    quick nest-box question

    hi all, is a plastic kitty-litter container suitable as a nest-box for a rhode-island red? the opening is 11"high x 9" wide, and it's 15" deep. thanks, -eric
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    new coop project - a few pics, several questions

    hi all, i have had out two hens in a small chicken ark since last may, and i want to provide them with more room as well as make room for a few more hens on the spring. maybe six total. right now we have a cochin bantam and a rhode-island red. i dismantled an old, un-used structure and am...
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    a-frame coop: room enough for happy chickens?

    hi all, i have this chicken tractor: <http://handcraftedcoops.com/large-portable-chicken-coop> (i hope it's OK to post that link...) the ad copy says it's large enough for 5 full-size hens or 7 bantams, but i wonder how happy that many birds really would be. right now i have a cochin...
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    free buff brahma bantam cockerel (pickup only please)

    hi, we have a beautiful buff brahma bantam cockerel who has been crowing for a month now. we live in a suburban neighborhood and we need to find him a good home. he's four months old and the prettiest by far of our four chickens. we are in the western suburbs of philadelphia PA and would...
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    at what age will i know the sex?

    hi all, we have some bantams (cochin and brahma) and about 12 rhode island reds. they are about 8 weeks old. the RIRs i assume are all roosters because they were sent free from mcmurray in order to keep the few bantams we ordered warm during shipment. the bantams were sold straight-run, so...
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    bantam breeder in eastern PA?

    hi all, my daughter would like to get another five or six cochin bantams later this summer. we got our first six from mcmurray, but i would like to avoid the mail-order route next time because i don't want another 15 RIR cockerels. i just want the bantams. can anybody point me to a...
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    when will roosters start crowing?

    hi all, my daughter got some bantams from mcmurray, and they added about 10 roosters to the order for warmth during shipping. they're about 5 weeks old now, and i was wondering roughly at what age will the roosters start to crow. i do not know what breed the roosters are, all i can tell...
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    help me select some breeds for a suburban yard (kind of long)

    hi all, my daughter has a few bantam chicks she got about five weeks ago. two buff brahmas and one buff cochin. we also have about 12 cockerels of unknown variety which were shipped along with the bantams for warmth. the roosters will be given away as soon as they start to crow (we live...
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    new chicken owner by proxy

    hi all, my 16-year-old daughter ordered six bantams from mcmurray hatchery, but we actually have about 20 altogether because they add cockerels to keep everybody warm in the box while being shipped. we live in a suburban neighborhood, so we will give the males away (the ones that are not...
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