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Moving or Separating Your Broody, and When To Do SoMy chicks hatched in the "bush" on the property, and were fine. My hen hatched 12 chicks. After 2 weeks she was taken. Maybe a fox? I have 7 of...
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Moving or Separating Your Broody, and When To Do SoSection her off. Put her is a separate cage. Make sure she roost at night. Don’t let her sit on eggs. There are over a 100 threads and several...- BDutch
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Moving or Separating Your Broody, and When To Do SoI have a Welsummer that has decided to become broody even though I have no rooster. She takes her egg each day and rolls the other hens eggs under...
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Moving or Separating Your Broody, and When To Do SoLol. I read this and came home to find a second hen sitting on a clutch with one who's been there for a week. I can't tell them apart. Neither...- Vicker
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What is the Best Chicken for a Pet?A good premise for an article. It would be nice to see it fleshed out with more breeds, like for instance seramas, which people often keep...
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"Truman" Coop
- joyknot79
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4"x4" chicken wire floor.(for composting and minimal clean-up) 12 nesting boxes. Vaulted ceiling for roosting. Roof/lid can be propped up if... -
Chicken coop with a playground!
- Verow75
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We are so excited! We are almost done with our chicken coop and run. It fits comfortably 16 chickens, and the run is big enough for all of them as... -
Atlanta Reclaimed Wood Coop
- jayl
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Here is our new coop! We built this over 3 weeks, for our 6 beautiful hens. -
Hamasaki Compound
- the compound
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Here is our brand new coop. We let the grandkids use it as a playhouse while our chicks were in the brooder...FUN! We had a lot of fun coming up... -
just double the size of my coop
- Ocala RIR
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had to expand the original design to accomodate 3 generations of chicks I've hatched.120 square feet of ground space.6ft of height. Doorway in... -
My coop so far
- farmerbrowne
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So far it is 8x8 with 2x4 insulated walls with a run of of over 200ft. I plan to add an additional 8x8 on the right side and in the spring add... -
Handcrafted Portable Chicken Ark
- beccablythe
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I know that several other members own this coop. It was originally recommended to me via the Backyard Chickens forum. For me, it is the perfect... -
something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
- kkidsmom
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Our First Coop: With little building experience and a plan modified and borrowed from TSC my DH and I began our coop building venture. The... -
Jscs Coop Page 2
- JSC
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Run 8 X 20 Run Door Here is the tool I made to stretch the chicken wire You attach the wire on the top of the run board,then hook the... -
Under The Oaks With The Chickens And Squirrels
- douginsantabarbara
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We love our hillside coop under the oaks. The girls seem to like it fine too. Since living under the oaks can be dark, I have put in lots of... -
The Egg Plant
- suzie tiller
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Describe 'The Egg Plant' here This is your basic design. 4 x 4 square with a slant roof. I hope it works. -
Big Reds Chicken Coop
- Big Red
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Coop and Run Please enjoy the pics. I put alot hard work in trying to creating soemthing nice for everyone and then myself. I will have more pics... -
Cluckonghen Palace
- hairco
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Describe 'Cluckinghen Palace' here . I made my signs -
6x10 Chicken coop
- sherrya
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Need to change roof panels, but already had these on hand. -
The Hen House 2012
- lorijohnson823
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We built the hen house to raise some LF hens. I started raising Bantams last year. I decided that a must have was a LF house for my new baby... -
Recycled Materials and Solar
- 1JewellAtATime
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After impusivly purchasing 4 hens at the chicken swap meet the other day I came home and made a coop/tractor out of things I had in our barn. It... -
Barredcountrycoops Chicken Coop
- barredcountrycoop
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BarredCountryCoop Shortly after hurricane Gustav blew through the area, my son, was asked to go assist in the clean up at a local feed and seed... -
Incubating eggs to hatch females
- Sergio19Peter
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I have a different method that may help you hatch more female hands then roosters. I'm not an expert but thankfully I'm not a beginner and this...