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  1. Racsan

    4 cinnamon queens and 1 ?

    Im back!, its been another month and of course they have grown, they are bigger than my bantam now, the “odd” bird is definitely different, heres a current look at my newest chickens
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    4 cinnamon queens and 1 ?

    no problem, Just wondered what Im really raising.
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    4 cinnamon queens and 1 ?

    Heres the “alleged “ cinnamon queens when I first got them:
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    4 cinnamon queens and 1 ?

    They came from a farm store called rural king, Ive gotten all my birds from there, last year I got 6 black sex links and the year before I got a isa brown, a bantam, a americana & 3 black sex links. The bantam is my favorite, such a cute pretty bird! Ive lost 1 each from each batch except this...
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    4 cinnamon queens and 1 ?

    I got 5 cinnamon queens about a month ago, they are getting feathers now and 1 of them is noticeably smaller with darker feathers, im not sure if its a different breed that got in with the others or if maybe its a roo. They are in a makeshift pen inside the chicken house so they can see/be seen...
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    new chickens!

    Got 5 new birds last weekend, rural king had a clearance on some birds that have been there awhile. Normally they average at $4 a bird. The clearance chickens were $1.50 each. Got me some cinnamon queens to go with my black sex links, isa brown, bantam & amaracana.
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    Extension Cord Fan to Covered Run

    I run electric to my building from the garage with a heavy extension cord, My electric usage in my building is : 2 overhead fluorescent light fixtures (one in feed room, one in bird area) 2 fans, 1 is a 14” tsc exhaust fan on a thermostat control with a manual override & the other fan is a box...
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    my coop evolution over the last year

    Ive added a tsc 14” exhaust fan to my building. have a attic temperature switch & a manual override on it. It’s almost too big for the 7x10 bird area, theres a draft at the bird run door when its on, even with the other 15” x 30” vent window open! the chickens will try to sit in the doorway to...
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    front yard refrigerator-winter?

    Ive had a bottle of drinking water in the door just to keep tabs in weather it freezes or not. It hasnt but the thermometer above the bottle has read below 32 for the past few days. I checked the eggs a while ago and found one shell had cracked so Im pulling the plug , pulling the trailer behind...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    21 here in central ohio, high of 40 (sometime) today. bbrrrd! 8 am as the sun is rising
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    front yard refrigerator-winter?

    I sell my extra eggs out in the front yard with a small fridge in a trailer, It turned cold and im wondering if eggs will freeze out there or if the insulation of the fridge will keep that from happening. I like my sales setup because I takes care of itself and Im not much of a people person...
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    Do your birds talk to you?

    mine are always “talking” especially when it’s evening and Im about to let them out a hour before sunset. they clearly know what “ready to come out and play?” means. Oddly enough the egg-laying squaking doesn’t always mean a egg was layed. And one time I was gathering eggs when the bird in the...
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    I taught my daughter how to change a tire, and she has had to before more than once by herself. My mom on the other hand has no interest in knowing anything, her attitude is “I have a son & husband that know how to do things, there is no reason for me to know anything “. Yet in the early ‘80’s...
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    How to stop chickens from roosting in aframe

    In my coop I have a 2x4 across one wall to the other that I can hang a feeder & waterer from, I had concerns about my birds wanting to roost up there so I used some extra plywood to go from that beam up to the rafter. No edge to perch on that way. In this picture its hard to see but its there...
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    my coop evolution over the last year

    We have had our chickens now for about a year & a half, started out with a basic tsc coop we found used on marketplace, we then found a 4’ high kennel for a yard area for it, then I got a 12x12 kennel as a attachment and used the smaller kennel as roof panels , then tarped it up for winter. I...
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    Roofing choices for covered run?

    I would worry about the clear poly turning the run into a hot greenhouse, with mine I have a 8x22 4’ high kennel run with bigger kennel panels on it as a roof- mostly as protection from hawks & eagles. the first 6 ft from the chicken house is covered for shade & rain (the feeder hangs under that...
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    What did you do with your flock today?

    That reminds me, when I first moved my flock into the new chicken house they were used to a tarped up 12x12 kennel as their home with no floor, just deep bedding that they could and did did through on occasion. Well in the new building they could be heard hammering away on the plywood floor...
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    We were in a perkins restaurant a few months back and I couldn’t help but notice that everyone there was over 50 and my first thought was that this was where the older crowd must gather, then it dawns on me- we ARE in that group now. so much for “sweet 16 has turned 31” - my number is associated...
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    What did you do with your flock today?

    Im in ohio, north central region, marion county specifically, just south of 309 but on a backroad. When all the leaves are gone you can just barely see & hear the traffic on that major road.
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    What did you do with your flock today?

    Let mine out about a hour before dark to enjoy some untrampled yard, maybe find some bugs, grubs or other goodies. My newest birds barley left the run area while my older birds went almost to the property line (house is in the middle of about 3 acres)
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