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I know this thread is long dead, but how did this work over time?

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Cross-posted from https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1065952/west-texas-breeders#post_16237059 at the suggestion of caveman rich: Having moved from South Texas to Lubbock, we're about to move onto some land and I'm finally going to get another flock of chickens! This time around, I want to...

Having moved from South Texas to Lubbock, we're about to move onto some land and I'm finally going to get another flock of chickens! This time around, I want to hatch eggs with a surrogate Mother Hen, rather than ordering Hatchery Chicks. Here's my ideal plan: --Get two to three pullets...

Great Coop, I'm very impressed. Did the Chicken Vote go your way?

Great article. I couldn't see any of the pictures. It has a photobucket error that says the images have been deleted. I still learned a lot from the text. Thanks.

Our young ones finally got it after 3-5 days of picking them up and moving them to the roosts. It helps that I have four roosts, all the same height. The older girls take up two (same ones they were always on) and the young girls use the other two. I think blocking half of the available boxes...

Update: After several days of observation, nothing had changed. I inspected the leg and foot again without answers. After I started giving her aspirin water, she improved dramatically and I put her back with the flock. That was almost two weeks ago, and she was doing great. We just got back...

The afternoon after I integrated young pullets (2.5 months) with my somewhat older (7 months) layers, I noticed one of the young Jersey Giants was limping. My daughters let them out that morning and didn't notice limping. My assumption was that she was bullied by the big girls, but I didn't see...

Peroxide is decent for cleansing a wound initially, and getting out contaminants. It is also toxic to cells, especially new cells. Using it repeatedly will slow healing. I'm an emergency doctor and I use it only for cleaning very dirty wounds. After that, I clean with water daily, or maybe...

Thanks for the quick reply. I actually have 4 roosts. The older 9 layers only use the first 2. The first night of integration I put the younger girls on the other roosts, but I don't know how long they stayed there. There were a lot of droppings in the nest boxes when I went out this morning...

My problem is that my flock is made up of two subflocks. The layers are about 7 months old and regularly access the nesting boxes for their intended purpose. The little ones are 2 1/2 months old and only recently integrated to the big coop when they "outgrew the grow out." I can't block off...

Yes. Submersion in boiling water for 15 minutes will kill most virulent bacteria.

One of our hens layed several soft eggs in the first month or so she was laying. All my layers are the same age so it could have been a RIR, Barred. Rock, or White Rock. Oddly, while every "real" egg they've layed has been in the nest box, the shell-less eggs were all under the roost--like it...

So...I came home from a meeting today to find one of the chicks trying desperately to get back into the big box with her nest mates. She'd left evidence of her adventures nearby. Luckily, the dog was locked up, the poop only landed on tile, and my wife is out of town. Nobody had to lose their...

Good to know. I'll probably get their coop set up tomorrow, and move them in soon. Thanks.

Thanks for the quick response. The older girls are in their own large coop/run. The young ones would go into a separate (but nearby) small coop like this one to which I've added a home built run extension. The new girls would be protected, but could see (and be seen by) the previous batch. The...

We got our second batch of chicks a couple of weeks ago. They're growing quickly, and I'm thinking about next steps. It seems kind of silly to me to have them here in the air conditioning, then keep a heat lamp on them to keep them warm--especially since I live in South Texas and most days...