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    Help! Curroted metal roofing sheet blew off during transfer

    Now that I think about. Mine do as in your illustration, got to watch your head.. roofing never came off, chickens don't fly that high in the roost hopefully.. You don't want to poke them, they leak.
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    What Are Your Plans For 2021?

    Predator proofing can include fencing buried at minimum one foot in the ground to discourage diggers. Dependent on your vermin.. or lay fencing horizontal around the run and coop out eighteen inches or further.. The bigger the bugger, the further out.. and netting or wire cover of course for...
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    Help! Curroted metal roofing sheet blew off during transfer

    I use two and one half inches on two by fours set on end, the more the merrier.. Do not remember the intervals.. but 12" on center you can't go wrong.. Less than two feet would be my suggestion.. Must be one heck of a wind, I use decking screws.. Rust resistant.. Use of drywall screws and you...
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    The Honey Factory

    Bees are very expensive these days.. something like $150.. Just to have them not make it through Winter and or Spring dysentery.. Now that 'THEY' took away your access to Tetracycline.. Started when the Tracheal mite showed up in about 1985.. I loved my bees. It was a stinging experience.. Once...
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    Indoor gardener's thread

    House plants!! Already do that and really no problems.. In the summer they go on the deck to collect bugs.. Food growing is a whole other issue.. I kill them with kindness.. Too much fertilizer and too much water.. but have seen the light 5000K.. Ignore the house plants and they thrive.. I am...
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    should i let my chickens die naturally?

    Me is all I got.. One died naturally the night before.. Made an offer to the forest spirits, it was gone the next morning. Sasquatch
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    Help rooster attack on new chick!!

    Inexperience.. Nature is a cruel Mother and or Father.. and you haven't met mine. Mother Nature.
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    Help rooster attack on new chick!!

    It's what roosters do.. It's their job.
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    Yet Another worming question....

    Have a friend who worked in Hongkong for extended periods.. Stories I heard, whole chick in eggs.. likely black eggs too.. he had to eat what ever was set in front of him.. or host would loose face.. got to give him credit, but it paid well. Came with furniture fringe benefit too.. Soylent Green...
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    Yet Another worming question....

    I didn't eat it.. or I'd be green.. Ralph..
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    Can a chick with a deformed leg live a full life?

    They make wheels for dogs and cats.. If she gets around, name her Gimpy.
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    coop design questions

    Fancy.. built mine out of materials on hand.. Dirt floor.. Corrugated steel, pool liner roof cover and some plywood for door.. Plenty ventilation.. cracks everywhere.. There is one window covered in hardware cloth in the door and old sash, maybe four foot wide door, Which I leave open in the...
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    Yet Another worming question....

    Sounds like it works. Is what I would do.. Try worms in an egg.. I know there is a name for it.. but it is a trip.. Psychedelic, LSD.
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    The Right to Grow and Raise Your Own Food

    Curious this from 2012 and just kicking in, in real time.. 'THEY' are talking of coming for your BYC.. Your Fido too Miss Kitty.. If you go to sleep, you will never Wake Up! Michigander.
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    Why does my chicken rub its beak on wood?

    My dog rubs his face on his blanket to clean his face after eating. Just thankful it's not my blanket, knock on wood.
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    Is it possible to only buy one chicken to add to a flock?

    If I switch back to rural, which is an option. I'm allowed 500 per acre.. So add 50.. Heck NO! 'THEY' mess with me again and I've threatened 500 sheep.. Their rules.. Would be a crowd. Can you knit?
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    Is it possible to only buy one chicken to add to a flock?

    Do it regular.. Grandkids and chick day.. They start jumping out of the box, I get em'.. Sometimes they make it sometimes they don't.. but have a flock as opposed to half dozen and they can be merciless.. but most times they eventually blend.
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    Chicken eat a cotton ball what to do

    "I read cotton made up from cellulose".. News to me, guess I'll have to stop believing false packaging labels.. Cellulose is wood, basically newspaper.. It is in 'everything' you eat.. Worked in the business, up to 15% by volume.. and you're fine. A cotton ball may worry me some, but a tip of a...
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