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    My goose and chicken are gone and the hen house door was forced open

    If you have noisy birds and nearby neighbors that live close enough for the noise to be a problem, it's possible that they may have let them loose. It might have seemed an easier solution to them than talking with you about what they may think of as inconsiderate nuisance noise.
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    FREE WOMEN!!

    Don't get stuck in the rut of looking at the same girls every day! Add some variety to your life with 10 FREE ladies!!!;) As my wife and I will be traveling in the near future, I am looking to re-home 10 2 year old assorted hens. Included in the flock are Barred Rock, Rhode Island Reds...
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    Do chickens like orange peel?

    My girls will eat ANYTHING fruit or vegetable wise as long as it is chopped up or ground down to their size and sometimes I will mix it in with a cup of scratch or cracked corn, including orange and other citrus peels ( I am talking about the peel from one or two, not a bushel of peel gotten...
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    HOOP COOP WITH HIGH VOLTAGE >:)

    SHEET CARDBOARD "CHICKEN INFIRMARY"WITH DIVIDER TO KEEP WOUNDED BIRDS FROM PECKING EACH OTHER. (remember, everything likes the taste of chicken!) 4 'X 4 'X 24" TALL CHICK HOTEL FOR THE NEW LITTLE GIRLS 2"X 2" FENCE POSTS WITH 18" LONG RE-BAR DRILLED INTO BOTTOMS OF POST AND SET INTO GROUND...
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    HOOP COOP WITH HIGH VOLTAGE >:)

    After losing some of my best laying hens to a neighbors dog (who has since disappeared for good ) I decided to upsize my electric fence controller. I originally just had 1 electric wire running around the bottom of my 8x8 hoop coop chicken tractor that was powered by a HARBOR FREIGHT solar...
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    Preparing Your Flock & Coop for WINTER

    Here in SE Michigan we get pretty cold temps so I replaced the tarps on my "simple" hoop house with 1" foil faced EPS insulation board and 2" extruded "pink board" on the back wall. I forgot that chickens and seagulls love to peck at (and eat) foam so I had to protect it inside and out with...
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    Hoop tractor becomes a permanent insulated coop

  8. the girls enjoying the new insulated home (before they discovered how much they like to peck and eat foam!)

    the girls enjoying the new insulated home (before they discovered how much they like to peck and eat foam!)

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  9. cattle panel, insulated, concrete floored hoop house for 15 hens

    cattle panel, insulated, concrete floored hoop house for 15 hens

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  10. rear wall insulated with 2" pink extruded polystyrene foam board

    rear wall insulated with 2" pink extruded polystyrene foam board

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  11. coop with 4 - 4'x8' sheets of eps foam board installed and taped

    coop with 4 - 4'x8' sheets of eps foam board installed and taped

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  12. girls enjoying more light as rear and top tarps are removed prior to installing 1" foil faced foam board for insulation

    girls enjoying more light as rear and top tarps are removed prior to installing 1" foil faced foam board for insulation

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  13. coop placed on new concrete pad

    coop placed on new concrete pad

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  14. completed hen tractor with tarps and electric fence and charge controller, before removable wheels were added

    completed hen tractor with tarps and electric fence and charge controller, before removable wheels were added

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  15. early on in framing and construction phase

    early on in framing and construction phase

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    first cattle panel hoop house / chicken tractor

    Originally this inexpensive and easy to build moveable "egg factory" started as a 96" x 100" x 6' tall chicken wired and tarp covered cattle panel tractor design. After moving it around the uneven lawn around the pole barn and seeing how long it took the grass to recover from the 15 growing...
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    Value of a heavy laying Auracana hen?

    2 hens =1 dozen colored eggs per week, min $2.50 / dozen x 52 weeks / yr = $130.00 Have your neighbor pay for for raising the fence also, since she can't control her animal!
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