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    my coop burned down, need heating ideas

    By the way, thanks to all who offered ideas.
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    my coop burned down, need heating ideas

    This is kind of digressing from my question. I did have winter hardy chickens. The northern plains gets weather like most people won't ever experience. Winter temperatures hit -40 F here and typical winter overnight lows are -20 F(20 below zero F), that is normal, not extreme. I never had...
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    my coop burned down, need heating ideas

    Thank you for the kind offer of eggs. I will have to pass though. It won't get very warm here for at least a month. I won't be able to start rebuilding until the ground thaws sometime in late april.
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    my coop burned down, need heating ideas

    I don't know if they need to be above freezing or not. 20 below zero is 52 degrees below the freezing point, and that seems kind of extreme. It will get 30 to 40 below (fahreneheit) and I think some kind of supplemental heat is nice. I did have winter hardy breeds, buff orpingtons, speckled...
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    my coop burned down, need heating ideas

    I didn't get it out, by the time I got back across the yard with the water there was flames coming out of the roof. It was a total loss.
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    my coop burned down, need heating ideas

    Hello, I lost my chicken coop and 12 laying hens on 2/27/09 to a coop fire. As near as I can tell, the girls must have knocked down the heat lamp and ignited the straw. I noticed smoke coming out from it in the morning and I opened the door and let the smoke roll out. I went in and beat the...
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    moving chicken tractor

    I have a question on chicken tractors. When you move the tractor, how do you get the chickens to move along with them? My layers are in a coop with a run and this isn't a problem. I decided to venture into meat chickens and got a small batch to try until I know what I am doing. I haven't...
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    cracked hatching eggs

    I bought duck hatching eggs on ebay. The auction was for 12+ eggs and possibly a chicken egg. The package came today and I got 14 eggs in there. Unfortunately 4 of the eggs were broken. One was smashed and the other 3 cracked. I ended up with 9 whole duck eggs and 1 chicken egg. Will the...
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    winter coop humidity

    Need some ideas here. I realize the need for dry conditions in the chicken coop. My problem is I live in ND and it gets very cold here in the winter. Cold as in -30 below zero Fahrenheit. My coop is insulated and very tight. I need it this way to retain some heat in the coop. As a result...
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    Who has Astralorps?

    I've got 5 australorps, they lay well. I had an australorp rooster until he attacked me, he started getting pretty aggressive until I invited him for lunch.
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    Old coop remodel or new coop build?

    Anchoring your coop to the cement is no problem. You need a hammer drill and a masory bit the same size as the anchors you will use. If you can borrow a hammer drill great, if not rent one or by a cheapy. I bought an off brand 1/2 hammer drill for around $30. If you are only going to drill...
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    Do you need carpentry experience to build a coop?

    Another option for the not so handy: A lot of home stores offer prebuilt frames for storage sheds. They are studs already connected with the floor joist, wall studs, and rafters connected together. It looks like the outline of the narrow side of the house. They usually make for an 8 foot...
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    Spring garden plans around chickens

    I'd fence your garden and especially your berries. My chickens destroyed my garden last year. The only thing they didn't bother was the potatoes, corn, and squash/pumkins/zuchini, and beets. Lettuce, spinich, peas, beans, carrot tops were all consumed faster than they could grow. They ate...
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    black star layers

    Quick question- Someone is selling black star eggs on ebay. I have always assumed that these are a first generation hybrid and that the parents are two different breeds. I asked the person selling the eggs if these were hatching eggs from two different purebred parents used to create this...
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    are sex link hens better layers

    Do hatcheries make sex link chickens just to make it easier to sex, or do they really lay more eggs than their pure bred parents?
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    Coop requirements for the very cold states like NY

    It gets cold up here in north east North Dakota, I insulated my coop 2x4 walls with batt insulation and the roof stringers are 2x6's with batt insulation also. I have one heat lamp hung over the waterer to keep it from freezing and it stays at least 50 degrees F. It regularly gets 20 to 30...
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    Question on meat crosses

    Hello, new to the forum, I have been lurking for a while though. I'm pretty new to the chicken world, less than a year. I got into this for a hobby and eggs. Last spring when I ordered chicks, I was going to keep the pullets and butcher all of the roosters (heavy egg laying breeds). I was...
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