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    Advice on Duck/Chicken Coop and Run Area in Orchard

    The ducks will not roost. They will stay on the ground so make a nice nesting area that is not under the chicken roost. Ducks need water. They will stand in the drinking water if that is all there is. A kiddie pool is better than nothing.
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    Roosters in Michigan

    I am in the thumb. If you !I've in a village or city you would probably need to ask for a variance. If you are in a township it should not be a problem regardless of the zoning.
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    What’s taking my ducks?!

    Could be a fox. The take the carcass. Raccoons, opossums, and weasels do not. A large bird of prey might take one.
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    misting system

    We used this on our tent. Use the hose, let the warm water drain out first. Spray the roof of the henhouse with the cold water. Not a lot of water, little more than a dribble. The roof will cool down then the air inside the coop will drop in temp. Turn off water. You can do this any where...
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    Best YouTube Channel

    I would trust chickenlandia.
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    Best Chicken Breed

    Which family? Location. Etc. You would probably want chickens that are not flighty.
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    Ideas for Keeping Pure Breeding Lines While Still Free Ranging + Question About Bird Adaptability

    Just my two cents, breed as suggested above. Pick the time of year you want chicks hatching and work from there. I bought a rooster and a hen who were a year old and raised in total confinement. They did fine free ranging, following my young hen around and learning to forage.
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    "Guard Goose"

    You can have only one goose. It is advised that you get it as a gosling so that it sees the chickens as family. Some will sound the alarm only but only that. Others will attack. Research breeds to find what suits you.
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    help! outside coop built… please see pic &read description!

    Call a carpenter.
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    Cold climate coops

    Are you in the tundra? Please add your location.
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    What do you use for your walkways? (it's a soggy mess over here!)

    Until you put in the French drain you could lie a few 2 x 4 boards down. And a 2x 4 roost.
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    Are these chicken ticks? They are in my chicken coop!

    The award winning breeder I bought my Brahms from showed me what she feeds them. It included garlic. On another plus said you would be buying a product that is sold in Grocery stores, you can cook with it.
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    Are these chicken ticks? They are in my chicken coop!

    garlic keeps them away. Sprinkle garlic powder in the coop. After 3 days sprinkle some around the coop. I put it in the chicken food. food.
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    They may be eating it because it is high in flavenoids.
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    Electrified Fence and Silkies and Call Ducks

    My chicks would just walk under the bottom wire. The adults hopped between the two lower wires. On poultry netting the bottom wire is not charged and chicks walk over it.
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