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    Homemade Chickens

    February 2010 Homemade Chickens!! Well, here we go! We are going to incubate eggs in our homemade incubator! Last year we used a broody hen - a method I highly recommend. It was a great experience to watch our hen do her thing and raise the chicks. But that is another page... Feb. 6, 2010...
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    Chook Nook

    Chook Nook! It is always helpful to see what other chicken people are doing. I love to see how others house their chickens and learn so much from this. Here in the desert southwest, it is a little different than in other places. All those cute chicken houses would serve more as ovens than...
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    Gckiddhouses Page

    We live in Desert Hills, just North of Phoenix. Raising chickens was our homeschooling project one summer. These are some of our original girls. They had just started laying. It was an exciting year. I have been sharing our chicken adventures with everyone I know. It has been fun, but I am...
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    Arizona Chickens

    We finally got the mister running smoothly today. We bought it at HD for $10 three years ago. It is still working! We just have to bend the tubing and soak the heads in vinegar and then run the system without the heads to flush it. Works fine. Our expensive copper system on the patio...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Quote: FYI - Sprouts carries a brand called Bubbies and it is real fermented kraut. They also have fermented tomatoes (SOOO delicious), pickles, and pickle relish. When I don't have fresh kraut, that is what we buy. It isn't cheap, but boy is it good! Probably at other natural food stores...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Quote: Ugh! The heat is ON! We are going to be gone for a week. I hope my nephew doesn't have to find any dead chickens or deal with the stupid mister system malfunctioning and flooding the coop. I made a big batch of sauerkraut and it took 3 times longer to ferment than the directions...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Quote: Mine generally aren't. What is your setup? It's on my page. Lots of shade and water. However, the mister system was not on today due to a snafu. There are multiple water sources and they were free ranging today. They have 1/4 acre to roam on. Fresh green grass, water, pond, shade...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Lost another Polish today. DD is pretty upset. Don't expect the other Polish to survive the summer. Why are these girls so fragile?
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    Arizona Chickens

    Quote: You may already be doing this, but have you tried giving her a little sugar in the water? Or a very watery mash? It might give her some calories she is not getting otherwise to help her body recover. You can also give liquid baby vitamins (without iron). I hope she pulls through. It...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Quote: I make juice kefir and sauerkraut, too! Soap and cheese and beer, oh my. Not up to it right now!!
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    Arizona Chickens

    Quote: It has been 24 hours since our hen got stung. She is still not standing on her own. I wonder if I should have re-administered the Benedryl. I guess she will pull through. Don't think she is eating much if anything, but she is drinking lots of water. Hope she makes it through the...
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    Scorpion sting - sick hen UPDATE - doing better with benadryl

    Thanks for this thread. I know it is old and I am not sure if the OP is still around, but we were able to save our hen from certain death because of this thread. BTW, for those reading in the future, my husband says 1/2ml of the Benedryl would be enough for a chicken. We used 1ml because he...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Wanted to share our latest saga with you all. If you know you have scorpions in your yard at all, you may be interested. We discovered that a bark scorpion sting will kill a chicken. We did not know that until last night. Fortunately, ours has not died. She seems to be on the mend. So here...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Quote: We have our misters hanging on the roof of the run that our chickens live in which is about 6 ft high. We usually let it hang in loops down to about 5 feet. You want it to cool the air without soaking the ground too quickly. We have ours come on about 4 times a day for 20 - 40...
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    Coop full of problems! Disease, lice, picking, egg eating. HELP!

    Quote: Yes, we have wild birds in the yard, but who doesn't? I mean really! Doesn't everyone have birds in their yard? They don't sleep in the coop with the chooks, they just share the yard. Sit in the trees, fly through, and walk around the yard just like the chickens. There is nothing I...
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