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  1. ZurcherFarms

    Raising broilers with livestock

    Hello! I just wanted to bounce some ideas off of you all. I know chickens LOVE cattle and pig poop, and though it seems disgusting, it's actually pretty good for them, and creates less feed waste, and helps break up the actual livestock waste as they're scratching it around. Seems like a win...
  2. Bakka Bakka Mama

    Clean range q

    Happy Friday Eve y'all! Apologies in advance for my stupid q, what constitutes as a clean range? I'm working on getting the yard ready for when the puppies (yes, my chickies are also called my puppies ) head outside once they are old enough & of course, weather permitting. I have 3 dogs that...
  3. hihuckleberry

    When and How to Let Flock for Supervised Free-ranging?

    Hi, I just brought home new birds a week ago. All around 4-8 months old (2 are laying already). I have them in a coop/run that is about 12ft x 9ft, but I would like to let them free range in the yard when I'm out working in the garden. I have about a 5ft fence around the yard. A: Will they fly...
  4. wthspirit

    To Lock or Not To Lock?

    Hi all. We have 9 backyard chickens and 2 ducks (well, this morning we had 3 ducks...) :-( Sad to say that although it doesn't happen often, we lose a bird to a predator. Today it appears to be a hawk or owl. We have two options for keeping the birds: coop and run only or selective free...
  5. Kingerrrr

    BYC: Getting started

    Hello everyone, first time post here. I recently convinced my partner to allow me to get some chickens! She has told me she is "afraid" of chickens, but she knows this is something I have wanted for some time; after a lot of research and chicken videos she is finally on board! Little does she...
    • Kingerrrr
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    • backyard chickens building coop building coops chicken chickens first time free range getting started hens new coop
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  6. Keeping Chickens Without Free Ranging

    Keeping Chickens Without Free Ranging

    Many people out there long to have our feathered clucking friends, but may not be able to free range the flock as most people are able to do. Because of this many people end up not getting chickens because they think the flock will be unhappy if they don't have access to a large yard... Well...
  7. ChickenGirl2010

    Free range and feed

    Alright so I am going to be looking at having around 40 chickens by this fall. In the summer and until the grass dies pretty much the chickens are free ranging at least 4 hours a day in an 8 acre area and then in a 700 sq ft run every day its not below 20. Mind you I live in Kansas. They get a...
  8. Free ranging your flock, by one who free ranges.

    Free ranging your flock, by one who free ranges.

    Note that by no means I am an expert. This is information I have gathered by observation and reading. I mean free ranging as in without perimeter fences or anything, so you understand what I mean. I free range my chickens. My dream farm is on at least twenty acres, with huge multiple acre pens...
    • Amer
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    • Comments: 12
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  9. shy519

    Preventing Hawks...Is It Possible?

    Hello all! Recently the red-tailed hawks here have been pretty brave. When one glides on by, Chicken (pretty creative name right?) will do his warning call and he'll follow everyone into the coop or under the nearest object. I've waited with rifle in hand waiting for them to begin their dive...
  10. rod5591

    Getting started with free range birds on natural diets

    Hello All: My wife and I are retiring. We are buying a place in the countryside (near a city) maybe south Indiana, Tenn, Ky, Arkansas and even Idaho, we are not sure yet. we are prepping our home for sale and after sold, will grab the best available place on the market. We hope we can move by...
  11. F

    Lost my whole flock to hawks....

    A couple of years ago I had 25 Buff Orpingtons (all hens) in a free-range, 100' x 50' space. Those 'lovely' chicken hawks wound up getting the whole flock. I'm in the process of gathering the money to build a chicken-wire "tent" over their NOW 50' x 50' space, and getting a new flock next...
  12. st4rgut

    Chicken Butchering: Too much fat?

    Hi, we just killed a buff orpington that had only been laying soft shelled eggs and noticed it had a lot of fat inside. At the same time, we noticed several eggs were forming in its ovary, and were wondering if the chicken's fat had something to do with its inability to create fully formed eggs...
  13. AnneDrum

    Newbie from South Africa.

    Hi all! My hubby and I have started a small pastured chicken egg operation. Our first batch of babies have started laying eggs and our younger batch are around 6weeks old. There is an egg crisis in SA since a major outbreak of Avian Flu. These are our Potch Koekoek chickens (7 mo): These...
    • AnneDrum
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    • africa boschvelder eggs free range lucerne new hampshire non-gmo pastured chickens potch koekoek south africa
    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  14. J

    Three batches of chickens and ducks too.

    1. My old chickens, some I bought that were already laying, always stay in the back yard. A mix of Ameraucanas, Blacks and Reds. 2. The chickens I hatched after all of there fore-fathers and mothers mysteriously disappeared, hang out in the middle and front yard just like there parents did...
  15. S

    Coop/Run Size and mixing breeds

    Hello all. I purchased two Rhode Island Red Chicks from Tractor supply about 5 weeks ago. I have been working on building a coop for them but was slowed by hurricane Irma and the damage it caused. I have just completed the coop and it has about 9 square feet of space, one roost, and two...
  16. Chicken Tunnel

    Chicken Tunnel

    WINTER IS COMING Fall is here and it's time to start prepping the garden for winter. To help in the work involved I have enlisted my Golden Comets. The challenge I faced was how to allow the chickens safe and consistent access to the garden that is on the other side of the yard. My solution...
    • Wilson74
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    • chicken chunnel fall free range free range chickens garden healthy range tunnel winter
    • Comments: 6
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  17. pclark17

    Letting chickens clear the garden

    Is there any considerations I need to make before letting my hens have access to our summer garden space now that everything has just about ended production? We have green bean plants, okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, jalapenos, and some squash plants. I want to give them free run of the space but...
  18. AllensBackyardBarnyard

    New to chickens & new to BackyardChickens, but loving it!!

    Hubby and I started our very own flock in the spring of this year (2017). I had absolutely no experience with fowl, except faint childhood memories of my daddy having fightin chickens, and my uncle's farm where they roamed free & pooped everywhere. Bleah!! He talked me into it, and I agreed...
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