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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2012

    That is one seriously ugly bird....
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    Potential Chicken Raiser. Problem with backyard?

    Although most all backyard chicken folks would probably prefer their chickens to have at least *some* access to fresh 'pasture', it isn't a requirement. If you've got all that wood and such, and hubby is good with building, think vertically....
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    How much garden stuff can I feed them

    You could save yourself a step and just add what YOU don't want directly to your large compost pile, then just let the chickens have access to the pile. That way you shouldn't have to move all that material around twice...
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    Comment by 'brewdaddy' in article 'Mini-van Mobile Coop'

    Any worries about exhaust from the minivan stinking up or contaminating your coop?
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    What information do you wish you had known starting out?

    >>dust give it 3 weeks or so... then you'll know.... ;)
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    How to get hens to drink from nipple waterer?

    Ah... so THAT's why those things are all red... I have two different manufactured sets and was curious...
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    What information do you wish you had known starting out?

    >>dogs kill chickens I keep trying to remind my wife of that fact when we are frequently babysitting her idiot mom's yellow lab ('idiot' applies to both the mom and the dog).... although I made a 'rule' about it otherwise, they think nothing of letting that **** dog loose in the backyard when...
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    Comment by 'brewdaddy' in article 'coolcanoechic's Member Page'

    Nicely done! You mentioned that the girls don't like to use the roosts outside - perhaps they are too high off the ground for them to easily get to? MJ
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    This PDF is for rainwater collection systems, but on about page 9 it describes a really straighforward way of diverting debris from your collection device. www.bcd.oregon.gov/pdf/3660.pdf Not sure it would be ideal for this purpose (deals more with all the crud that comes off your roof when...
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    Why do you guys choose to have backyard chickens?

    Good point!
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    Why do you guys choose to have backyard chickens?

    I had been lobbying my wife for a while to get Ducks, not chickens. Chickens were a compromise and the selling point for her was when I told her they eat a lot of bugs... Being avid gardeners, this did the trick!! We had a HORRIBLE time w/ slugs and snails for years, and after we started our...
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