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  1. jokerone

    Help! araucana volneteering to be dog food!

    cool. thanks.
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    clipping wings to keep chickens off a 5 foot chain link fence?

    So far its just one young (this year) araucana.
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    clipping wings to keep chickens off a 5 foot chain link fence?

    I thought about that, but the fence is about 200 feet long.
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    clipping wings to keep chickens off a 5 foot chain link fence?

    Will clipping the flight feathers keep them off my neighbor's fence (5 ft chain link fence ) and out of the mouths of his great danes? thanks
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    Help! araucana volneteering to be dog food!

    My wife's favorite chicken has decided it likes to perch on our neighbor's 5 foot high chain link fence. Yesterday I walked out back and the araucana was on the other side of the fence looking for a way back into our yard. This normally wouldn't be a crisis except our neighbor has 5+ Great...
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    First Egg 133 days...

    We got 6 chickens that were born on 2/27/2014. Today (7/8/2014) we got our first egg. 133 days Or 4 months, 13 days including the end date 11,501,902 seconds 191,698 minutes (rounded down) 3194 hours (rounded down) 133 days (rounded down) 19 weeks For those want to know..
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    Mine finally figured it out. It didn't take long.
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    Mine are going up to bed each night now.
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    Are there breeds of chickens that crow less or not at all?

    Funny. I think for her its the idea of a rooster crowing before the sun comes up. The first night we had them outside in the coop they started making noises. I came home and she told me that "They started crying and I went outside and their were two owls in the tree above them.". The...
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    Are there breeds of chickens that crow less or not at all?

    I'm going to assume the answer is no, but I thought I would ask. My wife has a no-rooster rule (she doesn't want to tick off the neighbors), and I tend to agree. I thought perhaps there might be a breed that doesn't crow? thanks.
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    making progress. I put some scratch on the ramp and in the coop, and my wife decided to put them up there, and 3 of them took the hint and made it up t here on their own. (that's 50% success.. )
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    Elevated coop. Its the second floor. the first floor is the ground under it. This looks quite a bit like it. but this isn't it. Hope it helps visualize the coop. thanks.
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    we shoved them up into the the roost last night with the heat lamp on. The low last night was 52. They came out on their own this morning. I'm going to buy some scratch today and put some on the steps and in the roost for them. lets see if this helps. If not I'll just wait and see what happens.
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    thanks for all the help. I'll see what happens this week.
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    No, it was a large tub where the six of them were. they have pretty much out grown it. Was no room for it. But I probably should have. thanks.
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    ok, thanks. We put them up there one night last week, and they stayed all night. I'll put some scratch up there and on the steps and see if that helps. thanks.
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    how to train the chicks to move up into the roost at night?

    My chicks were born 2/27 so they are about 6 weeks old now. We are trying to get them out in the coop at night permanently. We have had a few false starts because its been too cold, but this week's forecast looks fine. I put the heat lamp in the upstairs of the roost and some of the...
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    Highs 60 Lows 45, When to move 5 week old chicks outside to the coop?

    according to the 10 day forecast (I only believe the first 5 days), it will be warmer in a few days. Hopefully spring will show up soon.
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    Highs 60 Lows 45, When to move 5 week old chicks outside to the coop?

    Yesterday we moved them out into the coop permanently. I hooked up a heat lamp for them in the roost. I got up about daybreak this morning to see how they were doing. None of the chickens were out of the roost. So I unplugged the lamp and within about 2 minutes they started coming down one by...
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    Highs 60 Lows 45, When to move 5 week old chicks outside to the coop?

    thanks. We have pine shavings on the bottom of the tub and I put a lot of them in the upstairs of the coop where they will roost and lay. the bottom is a yard where they can run around and scratch. its on wheels so I can move it from time to time as well. suppose to be cold tonight, so I'll...
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