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Wow! I am envious!

Your design and mine are pretty much the same. Mine is 8x20, though. I made my hutch the same dimensions as a sheet of plywood to eliminate the need for cutting. I enclosed the area under the hutch with siding and that's where I put my nest boxes. I put five in there, buckets and bins, for 14...

I don't care for snakes. Regardless, some of them are beneficial to mankind and I don't understand why people want to kill them all. If it is one of the four venomous snake breeds in America, or one of the subspecies, yes, I can see dispatching it for good because it is a danger to people and...

Rather than answering this with a subjective answer, I went to Bing.com and looked up how loud roosters, chickens and dogs are as measured in decibels. It took a lot of references to find this, so I'm not listing them all, but here is what I found: The average chicken - 60dbs The average...

Grog, "When we are worried about egg freshness my kids and I have egg tossing fun.....We tap them on the deck rail(to crack the shell), and throw them at the chicken pen. We have done as many as 90 eggs at one sesion." Really? Why? I'm aghast!

Either you didn't say or I missed it the number of chooks (4?) you have to keep in that small age. Each chicken needs approximately four square feet of space in order to not be too crowded. Also, my recommendation for roosts is 2X4 lumber, so they can roost on the wide side. This way, they can...

If you used chicken wire on your coop, you'll need to beef it up. Chicken wire only does one thing and that is keep chickens in the coop. It will not keep predators out. For that, you'll need to use hardware cloth of at least 1/2" or 1/4" dimension. Predators can't get through it. The toughest...

Wow! welcome Marine, and Happy Birthday. I am also happy to see another guy on here. I'm also a retired, temporarily disabled sailor, so welcome to the club. This is a fantastic place to learn about chooks so I hope you find it to be as pleasant an experience as I have. My current disability...

I applaud what you are trying to do. I'm a new chicken papa, but from what I've read and watched here, I suggest you soak the feet in a warm Epsom salt bath for about twenty minutes to get started. I highly recommend you watch the videos on YouTube also because they are excellent tutorials. I've...

Hello, Pambaum, I've thought of using fishing line and CDs, as well. I have plenty of both, but I wonder if you could provide more details on how it's done. I know I can just throw one end of the line into the trees with a heavy weight on it for retrieval. Do I just let it hang with a CD tied to...

I'm pretty sure the correct word is "styptic", not septic. I used a styptic pencil on myself back when I shaved. Septic is the place where effluent goes when you flush the toilet. :-)

If your dog has not completed a basic dog obedience course, this is very unlikely to work at all. A trained dog is a polite dog and the only dog you want around your chickens. Trained dogs make good citizens as well as good family members. Training a dog is also for the dog's own safety, as...

From my perspective as a new egg and as a first time broody "dad" it's my opinion that the best thing to do is to let the broody take care of everything, start to finish. My broody is a bantam Cochin. I have no roosters. I put six fertilized eggs under her and she hatched four. I left her...

Looking very good, yall.

Since I can't do the work myself due to medical conditions, I'm having it done. The guy starts tomorrow a.m. @ 7:30 a.m. He said he will finish it in one day for $150.00. He is normally a house builder. I already have all the material needed. It will be a little bit off beat in that I am going...

Very nice!

If you don't happen to have a mongoose handy, your barnyard cat will kill them. Some cats in Africa subsist on asps, never taking a drink of water in their lives. They really are faster than the snakes.

This is just a suggestion from a newegg who lives in a mild winter climate, so I've never heard of this before - but - could a person make use of an aquarium heater to keep ice from freezing in the water bottles?