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Chick moving and swarm trap mounting

installing swarm trap on back of Star Plate chicken coop

Once we moved the new chicks in to the Star Plate coop Anna decided the back wall would be a good place to mount the swarm trap we built last year.



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This coop should be named the "conspiracy coop", since it's wearing a tin-foil hat. :-)
Comment by Roland_Smith Sat Apr 19 07:13:47 2014

Conspiracy Coop . . . hahaha!

The Star Plate Coop is beautiful!!!!! You must be so proud . . .

Comment by Terry Sat Apr 19 10:34:48 2014





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