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I have the same problem. My new chicks refuse to go into the coop at night . The older girls, no problem from day one. Not sure the issue. I find them under the coop all bundled together. I will even place them inside the coop and night and watch them settle down, and later I find them...

I don't have any Roos, but by cuckoo Maran just starting sitting in the coop in the place when all the hens tend to lay. She stays there all day and if the other girls attempt to enter the coop they get hissed at. I decided to take her out of the coop and isolate her from the other girls...

Do not use the pool DE. It's heated and it changes the shape of the diatoms. I just simply spread it around. They kick it all over. I also use it to kill ants too.

The black birds in the front are astrolps (sp) the other one looks like a cockerel but does not have the tail feathers as mentioned. It also has larger legs than the others so it makes me lean cockerel. It will either crow or lay.I know.

[/IMG] Still unsure if I have a cockerel amongst us! Looked at many pics here and on Google that show full grown hens with waddles and crowns. They are about 8 weeks old.

No the 2 solid black ones are astrolops and the black with white tipped feathers are silver wyonettes.

These girls are all grown

All the same age. The chick with the whiter feathers and the waddle starting in the back I suspect is a cockerel. Just another image. and one more

So you would say the chick in the front is a cockerel? All the same age in the pic.

Deep method is the best. I have anywhere from 4 to 8 girls and use up to 8 inches of pine bedding I get from TSC. Lasts up to a year and I have a poop deck for them when they roost.

After a long molt, we finally got an egg. Each girl this year molted on its own taking two weeks each! Had the light going the whole time in an effort to try and make them lay.

We reduced our flock when a few died from old age, but the remaining girls were laying well. We even had one of the older easter eggers start producing after the new ones started to lay. Now we have had zero eggs in 2 months. The one reason I can see is that they did not molt at the same time...

My girls get - watermelon cantaloupe grapes bread corn salsa yogurt potato chips breakfast cereal mashed potatoes strawberries tomatoes and anything else I have. Everything except meats. They are basically goats with feathers!

I used the plans that were available on the Purina website. Yes it was 4 years ago and I'm sure finding the plans might be tough. Its basically a 4 X 4 X 4 box with a roof. I did not stay with the plan past that point. I highly modified the plan to fit my needs, including making the...

Well, all of a sudden we noticed one egg, dark brown, so thinking the youngest bird, the cuckoo started. The next day nothing, but noticed the old Easter Eggers starting to nest and then the telltale sign of the egg song. Then one blue egg and another brown from the Buff. Then we noticed two...