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Homesteading Chicken Coop Build, Chickens, Pond, Garden & Projects

Discussion in 'Hobbies and Interests' started by Well Seasoned, Mar 25, 2018.

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    We spent the three day weekend finishing the garden. It has an 8' fence to keep the deer out and a snake fence at the bottom to keep out the rattlesnakes. I installed drip irrigation throughout. The raised beds have hardware cloth underneath to keep out the moles. We planted a variety of veggies, berries and dwarf fruit trees. We will see how it goes, I'm sure we will change things every year. It sure feels good to get this done!

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    I like your raised beds. Custom made?
     
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    My wife bought them online, I don't know where. They went together well. I have seen similar, I think at tractor supply?
     
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    I didn't know chickens ate dead gnats. Midge lake hatch recently, last night they were so thick on the screens to my sliding glass door they blocked some of porch light. Thousands of them hit the porch light and dropped dead on the patio. The hens are eating as many dead ones from the floor as fast as they can as if it was a race. (they are tiny). Neat deal :yes:
     
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    AFAIK, they eat bugs, so that makes sense - just some protein. Always cracks me up in the stores when the eggs are marked as "vegetarian". I mean unless they are raised in an airtight, lab, there are bugs in there and the chickens are eating them.

    Almost no animal is a complete vegetarian as some people like to think. Chipmunks, squirrels, horses and cows can, and will kill other animals to eat them. It may not be very often, and probably more likely in a food shortage, but they ain't shying away from it.
     
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    LOL
     
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    Rooster broke/shed? a long spur tonight, WWW found it on the ground. It looks like he has 1/4" of exposed quick showing, do I need to do something? Not actively bleeding.
     
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    Info on the internet says nothing needed if not bleeding.
     
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    If they are anything like the birds I've had, as long as they aren't bleeding they are fine. If bleeding, then some flour put on the quick opening will help slow down bleeding so it can clot. There are also commercial powders available to aid clotting.
     
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    Thank you BB, no doubt exactly the same but huge. Clotted by itself all around the cylindrical exposed quick, hard to look at because it looks like it hurts. Not like quicking bird or cat/dog, it's over 1/4" of degloved quick exposed. I went to 2 chicken message boards last night they all say leave him be unless still bleeding.
     
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    So many people are unaware that livestock, and poultry will eat meat. My SIL didn't believe me that my chickens will eat pretty much any type of meat. So I showed her by feeding some left over grilled chicken to them. Then I was cruel and screwed up for feeding them chicken.
    Lol.
     
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    Finally got the run roof on. Not my best work, but this is a case of function before form.
    Had a rather large horse chestnut limb hanging over the run and coop. That's going into the stacks.
    Still need to clean up the area of the branches and clean out the run itself.
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    WWW thinks it funny to call them cannibals when I give them left over egg dishes lol. Can't take the boy out of the man.
     
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    Neat deal, family down the road wants chickens, we gave him some eggs to incubate and several have hatched :)
     
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    Finally got the birds sprayed!! No way to stop the sparrows (not so much barn swallows), the sparrows literally walk between and with the chickens, and bring mites. Good timing as they are going into molt and will have a new clean, mite free feathering for winter. This is the second time, first was 2022.

    Seems we now know that neighbor wants them for eggs AND meat. Idk I just didn't realize, I assumed eggs only...
     
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    I hope they get meat specific birds because egg layers have next to no meat on them and are tough.
     
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