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al if you still need a last min gift for your wife: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYADQ8W/ref=?tag=natdee-20&th=1
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BUT HERE I'M, KILLING IT
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it's perfect....Piso Mojado posted:BUT HERE I'M, KILLING IT
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ladybeard mcflurry posted:please build the bok box! also do you know what kind of chooks you're getting yet? i was told "not to worry, landlord has a friend with a menagerie and the chooks would be provided, even" ---------------- |
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Zyla posted:i was told "not to worry, landlord has a friend with a menagerie and the chooks would be provided, even" free chickens are the best breed of chickens imo
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appropriate but also terrible and possibly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY
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most freehens turn out to be roosters in my experience but ycmv (your chooks may vary)
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City of Glompton posted:most freehens turn out to be roosters in my experience but ycmv (your chooks may vary) i got ridiculously lucky on a straight run of chicks and got 0% roosters out of one run, so did it again the next spring and got 100% roosters. i'm pretty sure the universe was loving with me re: chooks. my mom has been pretty lucky so far, but she specifically only gets laying breeds which are almost always hens anyway due to egg selection. i was young and dumb and needed the chickens last time i had them (ten years ago). i am ridiculously excited about house hunting now because the first thing i said to the buyer's agent is that if i can't have chickens and sheep, i am gonna need an underground missile silo with access to iguana's for burritos and TSC for chicken crumbles, and i'll be fine. and there won't be chickens in that bunker, promise.
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Chickens first snow today They were confused and scared to walk in it, then they spent a while eating it  , then they went to just ignoring it
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alnilam posted:Chickens first snow today al's little boks are all grown up  mom said her chooks just stood there and screamed until she PICKED THEM UP INDIVIDUALLY and took them in the barn. they know where their crumbles are buttered.
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alnilam posted:Chickens first snow today reminds me of this thing I made to explain chickens to my non chicken having friends 
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City of Glompton posted:reminds me of this thing I made to explain chickens to my non chicken having friends can i print this and send it to my mom as the christmas card so she can post it up in the barn for the farmhands?
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this made me very happy. i only buy free range chicken eggs and i'm going to pretend they all have huge pastures of rolling hills and shade trees to hang out in (do not shatter that illusion)
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FluffieDuckie posted:this made me very happy. i only buy free range chicken eggs and i'm going to pretend they all have huge pastures of rolling hills and shade trees to hang out in they do. i saw some when i was driving in gilroy a while back and omfg. did you know someone has A WHOLE BUNCH OF BOKS in gilroy btw? and you can stop and pet them?!
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GORDON posted:Going to get down to -1 tonight, here, the coldest my chickens (that's an old-school name for a 'bok') have seen. I hope they do ok in the hen house. they will be okay as long as you have their house all draft-proofed as possible, some good nesting stuff and a heat lamp maybe if you think they need it. my mom's chickens (and mine, hail beyonce and penny and tina) all snuggle for warmth and it gets -30F there on the reg at night. mom did move their hen house into the garage last night though and i have a feeling my mom's going to call me and i'll hear chickens in the distance echoing in the bathroom at any given time.
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Hi Gordon, it's my first winter with boks too! On really cold ~0F nights I've been putting boiled water into old fashioned hot water bottle wrapped in a crappy old airline blanket and put that in their coop, bc i was worried about a fire from a heat lamp. Sounds like your brick setup will be safe though! I've read you should only use extra heat on the very coldest nights bc otherwise they won't get as used to the cold Also i put in a nightlight on a timer and I've been getting surprisingly many winter eggs! I've read it's more about light than temp. If you do the night light thing, set it to come on a few hours before sunrise, rather than in the evening - otherwise they'll get real confused at bedtime and cluck confusedly at the door to their coop unsure if it's day or night. Plus if you have it come on in the morning, their coop door will still be closed and they'll kind of be a captive audience with their nesting box 
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i'd be an awful bok mom because if it got down to like 40 degrees they'd be hanging out in the house with me by the fire then they'd forget they were boks and i'd just have a bunch of messy loud dogs running around and no one would be laying any eggs
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FluffieDuckie posted:i'd be an awful bok mom because if it got down to like 40 degrees they'd be hanging out in the house with me by the fire California boks am i rite 
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i need a pack and play and some feather dusters and i can be Best Bok Mom.
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yay, best boks!!! my chicken (at mom's house) beyonce came out like HOLD ME YOU FUCKS IT'S COLD HERE HOLD MY GIANT DINOSAUR FEET so mom said she would take pictures of her for me. i love her the most. they like their heat lamps a lot a lot but my mom's bok cavern is definitely rural middle america chicken mcmansion so it can handle and needs a lot more ambient heat for them. my dad called me to ask if i'd ever constructed a sheep "sauna" though and i know my mom's gone soft because they're literally wearing WOOL MOM OMFG. i think she just wanted some more high-powered heaters in the birthing barn tbh, because it's so deep-cold and there's bred ewes.
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