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    If you could only keep 3-5 chickens

    Wow - the varieties that are available to you just boggles my mind!! We have very few suppliers, mostly just chicks in a feed store. But that being said, I am so happy with the ones we chose and wouldn't trade any of them!!
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    If you could only keep 3-5 chickens

    They are gorgeous and flirty, too!! ;)
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    If you could only keep 3-5 chickens

    I've found my Rhode Island Reds to be the friendliest and the most talkative of all my hens! They will follow me everywhere, whether I have food for them or not. They are content to remain at my feet while I am out and about. My White leghorn, while the smallest of the group, lays the largest...
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    help?!?!?!

    My coop was made with 1/4 inch hardware cloth and while I'm certain a mouse or two has possibly made it in and out, I've never seen on or any evidence of one. My coop is 4 1/5 years old and we've never seen any animals get in or out of it! We've brought the hardware cloth down about 18 inches...
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    What poultry product do you wish you had?

    Thank you!! Need to do this when I go away for a couple of days. Hate coming home to find all the food stuck together and my Ladies unable to eat nor free range while I'm gone!! Had even added a tiny bucket to fill with food so it didn't need to flow down so they could eat, but that, too, got...
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    What poultry product do you wish you had?

    In the four years I've had chickens, I've never even given this a thought!! Didn't even know it existed!! Is there a special food or do I just improvise with what I have - I've never heard of a wet mash!! I am blown away!! :celebrate
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    What poultry product do you wish you had?

    The rain cannot get to my feeders, I do have them covered. However, living in Louisiana, the humidity does a real number on the pellet food making it soft almost soggy. I try not to put much in the feeders at a time, but even small amounts can become stuck together, making the feeders not drop...
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    What's the one thing you wish you had included in your coop?

    My 1/2 inch hardware cloth that covers the coop comes down to the ground and there is a good foot or more that goes on the ground to prevent any digging in, covered with dirt and plants. We've had the coop for over four years and have never had any rats, or other animals get into it! Either...
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    What Chicken Breeds do you Dislike & Why?

    My Rhode Island Red is the best pet of them all!! she not only lays consistently, but she is a real conversationalist, keeping up a running sentence the whole while I'm with her. She demands the attention and is so cute when she runs to me when I call - I can just imagine a heavyset farm maid...
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    ...just BUYING a chicken run?

    I heartily agree with you - I only had four hens (now 3) - actually, only three fit in my small coop! I forget that others really have lots of chickens!! It works so well for me, and would for others just "hobby chicken raising". My ladies provide us with three eggs a day - more than...
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    ...just BUYING a chicken run?

    After viewing this online, I decided to duplicate it - we used an A frame design (like on a swing set) which gives the hens a lot of floor space, but isn't as imposing a structure in my back yard. We attached a small coop w/laying boxes (sold at Walmart and others) to it for easy access without...
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    Only One Survived... Until This Morning

    I'd be so sad too if I were to open a box of baby chicks to find so many dead!! Shame on that seller - something was done wrong. I get all of my chicks locally, even tho' I cannot sometimes find the kind I really want! They all soon become family and their breed becomes a moot issue!! ;-)
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    Best Chickens Breeds

    We're in the South, but we love our white leghorn and our Rhode Island red - both so sweet and want our attention!! Now that Americana - Raven - is a different story!! She lays blue-green eggs but wants no part of our nor the other chicken's company. She will stay with the others, but at a...
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    Chickens seem not to like new bedding

    I saw someone say do not use builder's sand - I have one bag of sand and one builders' sand I just put down after having coop dug out - again. Why not builders' sand?? Seems to me it would be best because of the small grit and rocks?? I live in Louisiana and the rain is a constant. The sand...
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    Tile cooling station

    We use both a mister and a cheap square fan. The fan runs almost 24/7 in the 90+ temps, and the mister I turn on in the late morn and off at early evening. The hens will gather in front of the fan at times, and also under the mister - so yes, my ladies do know where it is coolest and will stay...
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