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    Wind chill doesn’t count, right?

    At one point, years ago, I sealed up my coop to keep the cold out. Moisture and mold caused some of my ladies to get respiratory infections and I lost some of them. Since then and up until this year, I have just blocked off, unblocked and blocked off again, the crosswinds in the coop. This year...
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    Raccoons: Do they ever leave?

    I put a blaring radio out in my woodshed to deter the raccoons. Sounds like I have someone milling around in my backyard all the time. I actually believe this was the first of many things I tried that works for me. I live on the river and there is a den down by the river that is big enough that...
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    Urgent advice needed hatching chick

    What does zipping mean? I have never hatched any chicks.
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    Can chickens have sugar?

    Can chickens have whipped topping?
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    Hostas?

    I sure hope so because my chickens started clearing out my Hostas yesterday afternoon. At first when I noticed it, I thought it might have been rabbits. But then I remember the girls being all gathered up in my Hosta bed yesterday, right before dark. And after finding where they had chewed off...
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    Transitioning from roofed to roofless run

    From my own experience, the umbrellas will help to give them some shade but the run will be terribly muddy. I had the mesh wiring on the top in the beginning as well and one day I caught a hawk pilling one of my chickens thru the wire mesh. Luckily the wire was close enough together that it...
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    Deworming Roundworm Advice

    Can someone tell me at what age, how often & what natural dewormer should be used? I have not found a lot of information that covers these questions. Sorry, I don't mean to hijack anybody's page but this site has changed and will not let me make my own page asking these questions
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    Is DE safe for chickens

    I use these feeders that I posted a pic of. Thank you so much. I think I might figure it out from here.
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    Is DE safe for chickens

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    Is DE safe for chickens

    How much per quart or gallon of food. I have 3 bunches of chickens of different ages so I give them all different amounts of food
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    Is DE safe for chickens

    This actually helps a lot. I put some in their run and then I saw a post saying that you should not do that although, no one had responded with whether or not they had any results from it. What does it do for them when you put it in their food?
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    Is DE safe for chickens

    I am conflicted. Some reports say that DE is safe for chickens and some say it is not because it causes respiratory problems. Can you of you more experienced chicken owners straighten me out on this issue?
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    Water Glassing - Has anyone tried this?

    I read an article about this a few weeks ago but the article called for Sodium Silicate. I ordered the Sodium Silicate and now I can't find the article to see if the preparation is the same as this video but I do remember that it called for eggs no more than 24 hours old. Also when I received...
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    Devastated... Lost 7 of 13 chicks last night.

    Raccoon got in and killed all my chickens but one, one night. Lucky, the one that survived, would not come off her perch until I got more hens. That was the saddest hen I have ever seen. She was a year old and the new hens I got were 18 weeks but once they got their pecking order together, they...
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    Raccoons: Do they ever leave?

    BTW! The raccoons dug a tunnel under my chicken coop to get into my girls. I had screen wire on the outside on the ground but they got under that wire. Shoot 'em . I lost count of how many I have killed.
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