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    Whee is best price for plain cartons?

    Yes, we plan on selling eggs from a stand at the end of the driveway.
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    Whee is best price for plain cartons?

    What are your best sources for inexpensive, plain 12-egg cartons in quantities of, say, 500? Nothing fancy, just plain cartons - paper or plastic, matters not to me. Thanks for your tips. I really want to find a good source cheaper than eggcartons.com, if there is one.
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    Predator chewed its way out of trap; going electric; how many joules needed?

    I lost 17 chickens to what I think are raccoons. At least one raccoon(?) got in through an enlarged opening in my 2x4 welded wire, where one of the crap welds failed. I fixed that and inspected elsewhere. I set a hav-a-hart trap outside. About five nights later something got into the trap, ate...
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    Chickens Not Laying Following Massacre

    Could be molting. What are the signs? Lots of feathers around still, but I'm thinking they're from the massacre. Your comment about the coon coming back makes me think I should go out and set all my traps again. I did set them the first few nights, with carcasses - one got tripped, even, but no...
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    Chickens Not Laying Following Massacre

    "It's been about three weeks now."
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    Chickens Not Laying Following Massacre

    I had 30 hens. SOMEHOW a 'coon got into the pen through a very small breach in the 2x4 welded wire (made in China, no doubt, but that's another forum). I know the spot, because we found feathers stuck to the wire there where one hen was pulled through. Of the 30 hens, 17 were murdered. The...
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    Is this a rooster?

    Thanks everybody. Did not know hens could have spurs. Learn a lot on this forum!
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    Is this a rooster?

    2 years about...
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    Purchase a small coop near Manchester, NH

    So I was going to build my daughter and fam a small coop for 4-5 hens, but I dislocated a finger and cannot hammer for a couple of weeks. Anybody know where I can find a good pre-built coop in Manchester NH area?
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    Is this a rooster?

    It never crows, it never mounts the hens, seems not overly aggressive, but it has spurs. Is that always a tell-tale?
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    Spurs: yes; Crowing: no; Mounting hens: no

    It's an EE - but is it definitely a roo? Is the presence of spurs 100% tell-tale of a roo? This thing has never crowed like a roo, does not mount hens, I have no fertilized eggs...
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    Comment by 'PJCluck' in article 'Willards Hen House Project'

    Terrific-looking coop! But do you think the chicken wire is going to be enough? I have heard from a lot of people that it's not. My neighbor's chicken wire run was finally penetrated by raccoons. I've got 2x4 welded wire covered with chicken wire along the lower two feet to keep raccoons from...
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    Seeking Droste chocolate apples

    Woudstra does not have them. Nobody does, it seems. I, too, have been searching for Droste chocolate apples for 15 years now, to no avail. The last time I bought some, I bought 10, when I saw them in a mall candy store in Burlington, Mass. The guy at Woudstra says he thinks they are not made any...
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    Help, I came home to a chicken massacre...

    I had a similar problem, lost five hens. I now have three traps set on the outside of my pen with tasty, rotting meat. I caught one raccoon so far, but I am desperate to catch some fisher cats. I suggest you get traps and set them around your pen.
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    Next step to free ranging....

    It all depends on the likelihood of a wandering predator and what your environment is like. Here in Mass., a fisher cat is not uncommon in the area, and I have a trap set 24/7 for it, just outside my run. (It was either a fisher cat or a coon that got five of mine through a weakness in my...
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    Hen stays in next box 24/7

    No roosters here.
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    Hen stays in next box 24/7

    Will she get over this in time? Put eggs under her? seriously?
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    Hen stays in next box 24/7

    One of my 20 hens stays in an upper level nest box all the time now, has been there for over a week. I scoot her out and she goes out into the run with the others and eats.... within a half hour, she is back in the next box as if she is laying. No eggs, though. She appears healthy, walks okay...
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