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shameless dude 
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 1:31am |
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went to the local farm store to buy canas...and instead came home with 10 rhode island reds and 13 guinas! they have now taken over my temporary cook shack tent on our deck! guess I gotta build a chicken house this week!
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 6:05am |
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Better there than here! Darrel
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ac hunter
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 7:37am |
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You should be very egg-cited.
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desertjoe
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 7:47am |
CHIT,,,Thad,,,,best we be trappin some coons and go turn em loose up thar so's they can take care of them guinnies ole shameless is gettin,,,,,,,,,them dang guinnies is terrible bout "announcing" whenever somebody is "out and about",,,ya know like checkin things out,,,,,,,, 
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thendrix
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 8:54am |
Welcome to chicken farming!!  Now build that lovely lady a nice, big coop right by the window where she can watch her birds and you might get an egg or two (and maybe some special treatment )
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chaskaduo
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 10:16am |
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Ray54
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 11:01am |
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There in his COOK SHACK TENT and seasoning everything for him. |
She must getting tired of his sleeping all day, but I think she needs some Peacocks. They can dang near wake the dead.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 11:21am |
desertjoe wrote:
CHIT,,,Thad,,,,best we be trappin some coons and go turn em loose up thar so's they can take care of them guinnies ole shameless is gettin,,,,,,,,,them dang guinnies is terrible bout "announcing" whenever somebody is "out and about",,,ya know like checkin things out,,,,,,,, |
Some coons and a herd of gray foxes. Til then we better have ole Lester do the pilferin.
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 12:33pm |
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I'm see someone else is in the same boat. Grandson has 50 more broilers coming next Thursday. At least the old gal has a chicken coop. Only problem - these are gonna be sorted thru and shown at the State Fair. The only problem -- the grandson is gonna be in Colorado at the time that dang things gotta be washed up and delivered to the fair. " Stanley here's another fine mess you've gotten me into".
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shameless dude
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 12:50pm |
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went to the local shed place, found a nice little building, they asked when I needed it? I said tomarrow, they said they'd deliver it in about 3 weeks, I said forget it!
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 1:13pm |
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Make a chicken pen on wheels and move them around the yard, no more mowing, just don't leave it set any one spot too long that they kill the grass and you will not have anymore ticks or any other bugs on the ground
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Walker
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 3:24pm |
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Is this a yolk?
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 3:59pm |
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I figure if you're building a coop,have two doors and put it between TWO pens... 1st year,then run around the 'west' pen while stuff is growing in the 'east' pen'. Next year, they get to use the 'east' pen, while the 'west' pen gets to recover.
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thendrix
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 4:07pm |
Walker wrote:
Is this a yolk? |
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chaskaduo
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 5:40pm |
Ray, I'd lucky if I made it onto a list of 1,000 of his closest Allis friends. 
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LouSWPA
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 6:31pm |
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john(MI)
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 6:52pm |
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So you went to the store and gave the old lady the bird?
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thendrix
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 6:53pm |
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shameless dude
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 8:26pm |
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been along time since we had birds...been digging out all the old equipment, some needs replacing, some don't. wonder if Tyler would notice a guinas in with his bunch? our one Lab is infatuated with them, she goes and checks on them every time we let the pups out. we took one out and held it in front of her, she sniffed it then gave it a loving kiss. now I wish I would have kept the other chicky houses up, they are all weathered out and about shot. PfffffT!
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200Tom1
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 9:38pm |
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Ok true story. When I was in 5th grade, the little town had a storekeeper that owned ponies, pony ride, little tin train, small merry go round, and a small ferris wheel. He sponsered KIDS DAY for 1 0r 2 days in the summer time. One year they decided to have a greased pig contestant and a genny catching contest. They greased these pigs with vasaline. Every boy and about 1/2 of the 4th-5th and 6th grade girls were covered with vasaline. Then They decided to turn about 50 ginnys loose and let us kids catch them. Only problem-- they didn't clip their wing feathers. As soon as they opened the cage those things took off. Those things were roosting in everybodys trees and crapping on anything that was left out. Lots of car washing going on for a couple of months. Us kids that lived in the country sure had a good laugh about it.
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 11:27pm |
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Eggsactly,,,,,must be a yolk.
Yard bird and eggs for ,,,,,,,,,,,, brunch for 100 friends.
Sorry, but I'm busy.......
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GARY(OH/IN)
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Posted: 10 Jun 2019 at 11:57pm |
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Drove by a place the other day that had a home built coop out in the lawn Maybe 20-25 white birds in it. It was just 1/2 or 3/4 PVC pipe and fittings with a light plastic netting taped over it and then a blue tarp over that. Looked like an easy to move cheap way to do it.
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JohnCO
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Posted: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:04am |
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200Tom, reminds me of the WKRP Thanksgiving episode, Turkeys falling from the sky, Mr. Carlson saying "As the Lord is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
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shameless dude
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Posted: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:06am |
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as soon as they are big nuff, they will be free range birds, they will still be locked in at night. just gotta get them to that age/size! last guinas we had, they would sit on the fence facing the highway, and it was just like they were watching a tennis match as the cars/trucks went past each way! that was funny!
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Posted: 11 Jun 2019 at 3:40pm |
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I certainly hope I would notice. If not I'm in the wrong business
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iowallis
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Posted: 11 Jun 2019 at 5:30pm |
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Make sure your chicken coop has 2 doors, not 4. Otherwise it would be a chicken sedan.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 12 Jun 2019 at 1:14am |
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LMAO @ Iowallis!
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Posted: 12 Jun 2019 at 6:06am |
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My Dad told me about the Guinea's they had when he was a kid. He said they would chase cars,were excellent for letting them know anything strange or different was happening. They all roosted in the pine trees along the road and one cold winter night they froze to death. Dad found them in the morning under the pines. He said they could not catch them to put them in a co-op as they were a lot like pheasants!
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Posted: 12 Jun 2019 at 10:44pm |
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Been thinking about getting some chickies. Now I don't know. Leon
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Posted: 13 Jun 2019 at 2:35pm |
iowallis wrote:
Make sure your chicken coop has 2 doors, not 4. Otherwise it would be a chicken sedan. |
Mine has 3 doors....Does that make it a hatchback?
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