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    Official BYC Poll: Is your RUN Covered or Not?

    We have hot summers in Texas. It keeps the chicken run cooler because of the shade. My secure chicken coop is attached to my chicken run.
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    Official BYC Poll: Is your RUN Covered or Not?

    My run is covered with used metal roofing. Helps keep my flock cool in summer and the run stays fairly dry in heavy blowing rains,
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    Well, he's toast now

    Good luck with your healing, so glad he didn't chip a bone. In March I bought 7 barred rock 3 day old pullets. Two of them turned out to be roosters. I can not let my flock free range so I don't want roosters( but I do enjoy their crowing). I have tried to keep roosters in the past but at about...
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    Official BYC Poll: What Kind of Roost(s) Do You Have Installed?

    This picture is from 2 yrs ago and it still works great.
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    Official BYC Poll: Is your RUN Covered or Not?

    I do not free range my chickens so my husband and I added on to the run a couple of times. It is 624 sq ft. We have chicken wire across the complete top, with roofing over 3/4 of the area.
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    Molting this time of year???

    I have two hens that are dropping feathers like they are molting. Two different breeds. One is 18 months old and the other is 2 yrs old. I know the others are not picking feathers.
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    Ended 11th Annual EHAL - Contest #3: Cutest Baby Fowl - Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    My Barn Yard mix pullet about 2 weeks old. I bought her along with 2 other mixes at the feed store as 2 day old chicks. Love, Love, Love!
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    Fun "Social-Distancing" Things To Do With Chickens During Covid 19

    I bought 3 Barn Yard mix at the feed store 3 weeks ago. Since I have had some alone time I decided to take a picture of what is developing with this cutie! Feed store guy is guessing part Brahma.
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    Fun "Social-Distancing" Things To Do With Chickens During Covid 19

    We put a load of leaves and composted dirt in their run to play and scratch in. Also I spread more sand around their run. Kept us all busy!
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    Bathing Hens

    That is good to know. Since most of the time I just wash their dirty bottoms I usually just soak them in Epson salts water, rise and either blow dry or if it is warm just put them back in their run. They don't mind getting their bottoms washed at all!
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    Hen not leaving nest box

    While she is broody she doesn't lay eggs. I have hens for the eggs not as pets. Once she is laying again she may go 4 or 5 months before going broody again.
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    Hen not leaving nest box

    I have moved the crate to different locations and have tried a larger dog crate in a different part of the run. Thank you for your suggestion. It's always good to get other opinions.
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    Hen not leaving nest box

    This is my sweet Black Australorp. She isn't 2 yrs old yet but she has gone broody 4 times (including 4 days ago). Keeping her in isolation in a wire cage doesn't always break her. Last year it took 19 days. I don't have a rooster and don't need her to set on eggs. I may decide to give her to a...
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    Sprouting grains

    Boss is short for Black Oil Sunflower Seed.
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    New pullets, night lights advice?

    I have remote control switches I ordered from Amazon by my back door. I have a hanging small florescent work light I leave in the coop and have installed a lot of small white Christmas lights under the roof of their covered run. When I get up around 7 am I turn on their lights and go let them...
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