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    Refusing to Coop at night - Missionary in Africa needs help

    I am vice president of a non-profit corp. that provides financial and logistical support for missionaries in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Today, I received the following from Laura Holt and am hoping that folks here can offer some guidance. They have quite a bit of experience raising chickens in...
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    Unknown disease - Missionary in Africa needs help

    I am vice president of a non-profit corp. that provides financial and logistical support for missionaries in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Today, I received the following from Laura Holt and am hoping folks here can offer some guidance. They have quite a bit of experience raising chickens in...
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    Egg Roll-out Nest Box Design

    These are the new roll-out nest boxes that I am using. I'm sure that I'm not the first person to make such a design using plastic storage boxes, but they are working very well for me. I used to lose a lot of eggs to breakage and to egg-eating, and they used to require a lot of cleaning. Since I...
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    Chicken Dog

    This is our "Chicken Dog", Shiloh doing his job. Although he is actually a Shetland Sheep Dog, he does pretty well as a chicken dog. When one of the ladies escapes from the pen, Shiloh will get to work and hold the chicken until we come and pick it up and toss it back into the pen. He has never...
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    Custom egg cartons

    After years of using old egg cartons that folks have saved for us, we are getting ready to order some tri-fold plastic egg cartons so we can use our own custom labels on them (we will print them on an ink jet printer and then cut them out). I used to buy blank paper cartons and use a rubber...
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    Triple Production Reds - anyone know a source?

    Hi - new guy checking in. I have read several places about a breed called "Triple Production Reds" (do a Google search on it), but have never located a source. "Triple" is for 1) Eggs, 2) Meat, and 3) Chicks. The breed was developed for use in third world countries as a means of helping...
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