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Thanks for the welcome! I feed my flock each morning and late afternoon, just enough for them to eat. Here is Zephyr, it is rare to not have rain and they mostly free range in the yard, so I keep their food out in various spots for them.
Sometimes, I make their food into a mash with...
Awesome idea! I used to volunteer with a church group that fed the homeless in downtown St. Pete (cooked a lot of hot dogs).
The idea of youth gardening is just wonderful! Who knows what kind of future gardeners you will inspire!
~~We unfortunately just lost about $600 worth of birds to our neighbors two pits :( Came home luckily and stopped them from getting anymore and they totally damaged two coops. Made a police report and will have to go to court over it :( I'm glad yours were safe !
I am so sorry to hear of...
So has everyone been enjoying the weather? It started off kind of wet and dewy this morning, but warmed up and dried out by the afternoon. I have six six-week-olds that I had out in a temporary pen so they could enjoy the weather.
BTW, had to chase off early this morning, the neighbor's...
~~The best protection is to be able to close your birds in their coop at night as many of the predators roam at night. Of course there are a few exceptions such as hawks. I was loosing birds about every other night out of a couple of my pens and I have electric around them all. I couldn't figure...
Thanks so much for the pictures of your coops. Sorry for the late response back, it took me a while to find my way back to this forum.
Our coops and "girls" are moved up here now, close to the house (actually against the house for the meantime) and locked in the coops at night. We have seven...
Hi to fellow Floridians. Was in St Pete, am moving to Zephyrhills hopefully soon. Very near to 301. I have been looking around and don't see many coops. So I thought I would ask the wonderful folks on here. What are the predators I need to watch out for and what is the best coop design...