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    Help! Winter is coming!

    Thank you all for all your excellent advice! Yeah we are new to backyard chickens and chicken keeping in general! We love the idea of homesteading, and we moved to 3.5 acres in Bristol Ny. We have a huge raised bed garden (although our drought this year killed us, no rain water to collect to...
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    Help! Winter is coming!

    Hi everyone! This will be our first winter with the chickens, we live in upstate NY/finger lakes region so we usually get pummeled with snow! Trying to figure out what is the best way to keep the chickens over winter, we don't use the layer method of composting straw, we have a livestock sand...
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    Broody Buff!

    Hey everyone, got a question for you! We have a buff Orphington who has gone broody, we have tried to break her by separating her from the flock in a dog kennel in our garage for 4-5 days and she won't change her attitude. We have also have tried soaking her in cold water to try to lower her...
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    To candle or not to candle?

    Thanks everyone!
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    To candle or not to candle?

    We just found out our Winnie is really a Walter and has been expressing his raging teenage boy hormones on all our girls. These are our first chickens and we have no idea what to do with fertilized eggs? We have only gotten 1 very tiny xtra-small egg from the group so far. If we collect the eggs...
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    Ayam cemani??

    So it is a rooster, sigh. That's what we thought, but hoping for a hen ;0/
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    Suggestions for nesting material

    Thank you! Great idea!
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    Suggestions for nesting material

    Thank you!
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    Ayam cemani??

    Ok thank you!!
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    Suggestions for nesting material

    Thank you!
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    Suggestions for nesting material

    Hi everyone! We use sand as the bedding in the coop, so far has worked great and easy to clean! Our chicks are 15 weeks old, we have two white leghorns that we heard will lay at 5 months. What type of bedding should we use for the nesting boxes? Pine shavings maybe? Should we put a golf ball in...
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    When to offer crushed oyster shell and opening the nest boxes

    We made dust baths with DE, wood fire ash, sand and dirt in old tires that the chickens. The DE is supposedly safe and a natural element.
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    No feed available

    Good luck! Two of our family members lived on Kona for 6 years and everything is so much more expensive because of it being an island of course! But I bet it's beautiful there! Hope it works out!
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    Made a Nipple Waterer with a 5 Gallon Pale But.....

    We have a 5 gallon bucket with 2 nipples in the run and another one in the coop. We change the water every few days and put apple cider vinegar in it as well. No issues so far!
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    Ayam cemani??

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