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    Need experienced advice on how to deal with single digit temps in non-insulated coop

    Chickens can tolerate the cold. We have been getting down to -30F for the past few weeks. We have put thick plastic covering surrounding the external walls of our coop. The chickens have adapted, however we are only getting 1/2 the eggs we normally get. We also feed them extra protein -...
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    My house is 1 acre. Can my neighbr hear my rooster?

    Your neighbours will definitely hear the roosters. We have 2 acres and of 4 chicks, four turned out to be roosters. First, in our area (country patch in the city) no one is permitted to have roosters. Second when we discovered they were roosters - (they started to crow) we quickly informed the...
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    Help! Broody Hen!

    We had the same challenge. One of our chickens became broody for a whole month!, nothing would stop her behavior! And we have no roosters! In exasperation a friend of ours, who has 2 roosters, swapped 6 eggs with us, possibly fertilized or not. So we put then under her and she stayed on them...
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    Really watch for predators now

    So sad to hear your news. We lost a chicken early this summer to a hungry fox. We have also had three chicken hawks around all summer. This has forced us to keep the chickens in their coup, unless we are out to watch them carefully. My rooster - Doodledoo helps keep an eye out too!
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    Raw undersides.

    Help please we’d had chickens for five years, and last winter, housed then with a farmer. One was picked on by the rooster, and here been brooding since she’s come back in May. She has now developed a red raw underside and another one has a raw patch near her tail feathers. All four are...
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    Stone dust for run floor?

    That is not very thick.we have 6 inches of a combo of sand and stone dust, as chicken love to dig fir their sand baths! We also have six chickens. We have chicken wire on the outside perimeter of all sides of pen (1/4 inch only so nothing can easily get through) going out 2.5 ft, anchored down...
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