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    How to feed bulk fermented feed to meat chickens?? please help!

    I appreciate your idea, they eat 10 gallons of fermented feed a day so that idea wouldn’t work for them. Thank you though!
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    How to feed bulk fermented feed to meat chickens?? please help!

    details: 50 meat chickens, chicken tractor, really want to continue feeding fermented because its better for gut, lowers feed costs and provides extra water in the Texas heat. Okay so how do I feed fermented feed successfully to my meat chickens? You can see my previous post of my chicken...
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    My own variety of meat birds

    How is it going now?
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    I added corner braces on the bottom of the run to help with integrity. How would I stake it down with the hardwire sides? Where would I get welded wire that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    Here are some updated pics, I could add a horizontal bar on the long sides but it seems decently sturdy and mild weight. Bottom base is 1x3. Corners are 2x2. The vertical and ceiling are 1x3 I believe, but may be 2x3 (really thick stuff from Lowe’s). The part with the gate is 2 layers of...
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    Good idea on trying to catch them and see where they get caught!
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    can I do chicken wire apron or does it need to be hardwire cloth?
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    Depending on how hard the girls are on the ground, especially in the summer drought, depends on how close the run can be to the house. Another plan could be is to have them follow the meat birds in the electric poultry netting in their run, to scratch their poops in (while I raise meat birds)...
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    I don’t have anything solid for the top. Plan like I mentioned is chicken wire and cover it with a tarp because of the horrendous Texas sun. Sides are all hardwire cloth. The corners are 2x2 and the plan for the upright supports will be 1x4. On the short sides is where I will have a human...
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    Why wouldn’t it? If I add an apron to the bottom, then they can’t dig to lift the run up?
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    What kind of beefing up? I already have spent $400 on a wheel lift kit for the heavy bullet proof tractor I built, really can’t spend another $400 for this one if it gets heavier. And yes I’ve tried to build a wheel system and it doesn’t work for me so that isn’t an option
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    Movable chicken coop run skirting?

    Hi, so I am building a temporary movable chicken run that will marry up to the movable coop (very well built and predator proof). This is what I have so far. I have 1 side and some to find some scrap hardware cloth to cover with and add some side support boards. It’s light weight (1x2) and...
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    My own variety of meat birds

    Following. I raise CC but interested in ranger finish weight since I grow a lot of chicken for my dog and cat food
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    Midnight majesty roo??

    I don’t quite remember, but I think I might. There’s 8 total. 2 Americana-no comb. Gold laced Wyandot, MMM, starlight green-small comb, buff Orpington-comb, some white Brahma-little comb and then the black one who has a small comb. The MMM and the starlight are 1 week behind the others
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    Midnight majesty roo??

    No. There is no distinct white mark. That’s what is throwing me off! Hopefully it will show me what breed it is before chick days are over, in case I need to get more to replace all of my chicks. they all have combs growing. I think one might have a tinge of red at the base, just hope I’m not...
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    Midnight majesty roo??

    He’s on the left, the one perched. The big right one-I don’t know the breed I forget. The only other chick I have at his age looks the same. All of these chicks, besides the Americana have combs. I can’t possibly have all roosters besides those two, when they were sold as pullets…
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    Midnight majesty roo??

    This little one is 3 weeks old. I thought he was a pullet but may be wrong, got him from a feed store. He has a white wing on each side. Anyone else think he is a rooster? He’s the one on the left. I forget what the one on the right is supposed to be-they are from Hoovers. Really hope that one...
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    Need help predator proofing chicken tractor.

    What poison do you recommend that wouldn’t harm chickens?
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    Need help predator proofing chicken tractor.

    Okay, so maybe I just do some hardwire flaps on the outside? Along with electric netting? Guess my only other concern would be weasels or rats passing through the netting and digging under the tractor. I was worried about sores and bumble foot.
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    Need help predator proofing chicken tractor.

    I have a few questions. I have built this cattle panel chicken tractor for the meat chickens and will be the layers run when meat is done. Finishing up on it today. It’s 3 cattle panels, 2x4 (6 and 12foot long, so decently heavy). The front 2/3 is 1/4 hardwire and the back portion (which will...
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