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    I need to vent

    Happy New Year's to you! It's exciting when they start to lay. We've had some cold stretches but I'm still getting 7-11 eggs a day from my 11 girls.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I’ve finally finished my forest chicken shelter by building a stand and attaching the nesting box my son made for me. I added a perch they can fly up to to them step inside and also put a stump nearby. Later I’ll build some simpler boxes to attach to trees nearby. I covered the HC apron with...
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    Recent hawk/dog attack, just to have somewhere to vent about it.

    Thank you. I’ve been checking Peg’s wound and there is no sign of inflammation or infection, thankfully.
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    Recent hawk/dog attack, just to have somewhere to vent about it.

    Thank you, it was a hard loss.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Ah okay, I was confused by the picture.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Wait, is the black one (with a regular neck) a cockerel?
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    Buff Orpington hens crest

    If it has an actual crest, it's not a buff Orpington. But the one I have, who is laying, does have a pretty small comb.
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    Recent hawk/dog attack, just to have somewhere to vent about it.

    On Friday, in the middle of my workday, I heard something outside and went to check. No chickens out and about, but I thought I heard some up on the west ridge. I found two cowering in the dust bath inside the run and several more hiding under he coop. That was worrisome. I walked back up...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    This is how I'm planning to do it with my forest chickens. I really want to try to be as hands-off as possible. I've got enough managing to do with the coop chickens!
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Absolutely - there's an HC apron that is about 20 inches.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Got the doors on this weekend and finished caulking the roof. I think the shelter is raccoon-proof when the doors are latched, but of course they’ll mostly stay open. I put some peanuts on the roof (and also near the coop chicken’s place) in the hopes of attracting crows after a hawk attacked...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I’ll remember that next spring as I’ll trying to figure out how much to feed the forest chickens.
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    What is Wrong With Your Coop?

    I installed the door into the run swinging inwards and it is almost as wide as that part of the run so you have to step in, swing it part-way back, and squeeze around it. It's is a regular house door and installed in a way that will not allow it to be modified, so I'm stuck with it.
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    Heater or heat panel -10

    Wow, this discussion got heated (ahem). Full disclosure, I'm a novice chicken-keeper although I did grow up on a farm raising pigs and cattle. My brothers had a couple of ducks but I didn't take care of them. (Fun story: one of the dogs grabbed a duck by the neck and ran off into the woods with...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Our builder, who lives on a similar property, had us go out to the land after a heavy storm and send him photos of the water run-off from the mountain. We have a wet weather creek, so they just dug it deeper to handle what comes down the ravine and also the overflow from our artesian well. Also...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    That's really great that the family land is still intact, and that you have access to more than your own acreage. Our land is also too rocky to farm and too hilly to develop. We had a tough time finding a spot that was workable for our little house. We're essentially in a little holler in a...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Since I don't have the time or patience for selective breeding, I'm going to do exactly what you've mostly ended up doing - letting the chickens sort it out amongst themselves and the survivors win. I don't actually care much what they look like as long as they can escape our many predators. I'm...
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    You have 400 acres! That's a good chunk of land!
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    Moisture in Coop - Considering Pellets

    I so agree! I'm grateful for our good realtionship. Before that son landed on finish carpentry as a career, he worked for a landscaping company and then was a climber with a tree service. All skills he puts to good use on his homestead.
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    Moisture in Coop - Considering Pellets

    My carpenter son framed the thing for me and put on the roof plywood, so I had a big head start!
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