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    2 Day old silver laced wyandotte might be dying already

    They are 2 days old, hatched monday. Also, the 97 temp is at the hottest spot in the brooder, and decreases as they move away, so they have a pretty wide range of temperatures they can sit at.
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    2 Day old silver laced wyandotte might be dying already

    This morning all 4 chicks were fine. Tonight, I just checked them again and our silver laced wyandotte seems to not be doing well. She seems really sleepy, like she will stand still for a few seconds then doze off and fall over. She will also stand there with a sleepy look on her eyes then fall...
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    Coop big enough for 8 chickens?

    Depending on what your budget is, we built this coop for about $700 using the 10% off at Lowes from the post office whenever we could. It is about 5.5 ft by 5.5 ft with an 18x20 pen. Its not quite done yet though so ignore the unfinished corner.
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    Can I put wormer in their feed instead of water?

    4 ml in a gallon of water means 1 chicken has to drink 16oz of water to get a 1/2ml dose. The dose might sound really weak but watching how much our chickens drink, it seems about right. If you do mix 13ml of safeguard in their food, how will you keep it from just forming a big clump of...
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    Where can I get the right kind of sand

    Looking around google the only place I found was here. http://palmerpaving.com/materials might give them a try but they only sell by the ton. Don't know how much you need
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    Is this coop too big?

    That coop is only 9.3 sq ft. 39 in = 3.25 ft 34.5 in = 2.875 ft 3.25 ft*2.875 ft = 9.34 sq ft
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    Can I put wormer in their feed instead of water?

    Well, similarly, you would have no way of knowing how much medicine they would get from their feed either. Since they free range one bird might forage more than another and eat less feed while another bird forages less and gets more feed. Either way, unless you are directly dosing them, it...
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    EE poop so clear I thought it was thrown up water! Help!

    One of our pullets had almost identical poos and we did a round of fenbendazole and saw improvement after a day and normal poos within 3 days. We also noticed that her crop was almost completely empty when she had the watery poos. Could possibly be worms that wazine doesn't kill.
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    Can I put wormer in their feed instead of water?

    Is there a reason you want to put it n their feed instead of their water?
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    Warning...Warning...DO NOT BUY A COOP FROM myamishgoods.com

    www.resellerratings.com is a very large and popular place to review online merchants. Might put it up on there
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    How do you put a roost in a chicken tractor?

    I know tractor supply has those and they are about $4 or $5 iirc
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    Battery Powered Heat Lamp Question

    A 250w solar panel only puts out about 8 amps so you would need about 3x the amount of time to charge as you use. so of the heat lamp runs 6 hours a day, 1 panel would need 18 hours of direct sunlight to charge it. But since you won't be getting constant direct sunlight let's double that number...
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    How Much sunlight do my Chickens need?

    They're chickens, not plants lol. When it says they need a certain amount of sunlight, it means it should be day outside. Then chickens will choose whether they want to be in the sun or if they want to cool down and be in the shade.
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    Anyone experienced with vinyl flooring? HELP

    Its made to do just that, float over the floor. Normally you would tape down where two pieces meet and the rest isn't attached to the floor. The floorboards around the edge keep the edges down. The floor underneath is then free to shrink and expand without causing the vinyl to buckle or gap...
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    Solar-Powered Lamps?

    A solar panel to power a heat lamp would definitely need to be pretty large. For a solar panel that can run a 100 watt light bulb, it would be around 4ft by 2ft and would need to follow the sun to keep the sun shining straight onto it to keep up its power output.
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