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    Extreme Cold Warning

    Been -20 and lower took all my girls and put them in the house in the basement this week until this weather breaks. That's over 150 birds in a pretty tight space. At least their warm.
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    Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

    10 became 20. 20 became 30, then 40, then 50... then the laws of physics broke down completely and BAM! Stopped counting over 100. Now I got turkey math, and that's another ball of wax. They are like a bunch of puppy dogs and given the chance, will follow me around all day. So got 14 now after...
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    Integration Day! Help Lol!

    Sand pits are good to, hang up a cabbage or 2. Little bells or ropes in trees. One thing though, if your group that you are integrating is much bigger than what's there, if they were raised together they will come to each other's aid mostly. I was forced to integrate about 70 birds into the...
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    It's now been 5 years.....

    Yes, ventilation in summer can be warm, I removed the plastic windows and covered it with 1/2" wire mesh, I have 4 roosts on the inside as well using removable studs for easy cleaning. I have found using a base of sand then a top coat of wood chips lasts a really long time with high odor...
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    Wild turkey friend?

    I raise turkeys and chickens, and the turkey has more to fear contracting diseases from your chickens and dying than your chickens baring bird flu. The main one being blackhead disease. Pretty harmless to chickens, lethal to turkeys. My birds don't have it so we are good. And turkey behavior...
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    It's now been 5 years.....

    Haha, my wife did ask about pheasant once or twice so it's not out of the realm of possibility. We would love to get a couple milk goats though but finding them has been about impossible.
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    It's now been 5 years.....

    So....I first started off here about 5 years ago back in 2020 with not even a dozen hens and a beginners knowledge of the basic chicken. It was forums like this one that I was able to weed out all the tasty tidbits of information and knowledge that soon had me and my flock running smoothly...
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    Coop building isn't working out, running out of time and not sure how to proceed

    I'm in pa, if your close is give you a hand. I have a flock of over a hundred birds with multiple coops and it's always a work in progress. In fact we have to expand and add a duck coop and a turkey coop this year, and yes, pallets are your friend when your on a budget.
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    What do you do to maintain your chickens.

    Silkies are great, and funnier than anything in the coup. Samuel, our great white silky roo, is amongst the smallest birds we have and when he crows he truly tries, but he sounds like a deflating whoopy cushion. To or surprise, the larger girls are letting him mount them, I think it's because...
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    What do you do to maintain your chickens.

    I have about 50 grown hens, and about 50 chicks about 3 weeks a old and a couple turkey and a dozen ducks. Raising is old hat now for us, every morning first thing I do is say good morning to my new girls, and check them for pasty butt. Fresh food, water then to my outside girls. I have a...
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    poop trays

    Got about a hundred ish hens/gamebirds, I use a few inches of sand as a base layer, them a mix of compost and medium pine chips about 5 inches or so and let it rotate itself as needed. I haven't had to change the sand layer at all and so far the chip/mulch layer has held up this winter as well...
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    HELP ME! MY ROO IS TRYING TO ATTACK ME!

    For spur removal here is an easy trick you can look up, microwave a potato in a microwave until hot and done, put potato on spur 3 min until soft, do NOT touch skin! Channel lock pliers on spur and twist, it should pop off. Feed potato to roo.
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    8 week lavender orphington…gender?

    I have a few lavender hens, they are very sweet, if yours is 8 weeks and there is a question, very easily look at the legs, males will have the start of the nubs for spurs there, just a spot that is bigger than the rest. But I'm pretty sure you got a lady. 😄
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    HELP ME! MY ROO IS TRYING TO ATTACK ME!

    My roo, which i raised from a chick, is a big fine black astrolorp. After about 6 months of so it is natural that they start getting aggressive. My chickens are free ranging and also have a 30yd pen that they sometimes stay in. Now, you do have to learn yourself not to be so afraid of your...
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    Can the introduction of grit cause a bloody stool?

    I got 20 new meat birds and 2 days ago I introduced grit to them and they were just shy of 4 weeks old. Yesterday I noticed a bloody stool on the pen and I ordered Amprollium, but through out the day I haven't noticed anymore. I'm new to meat birds and I do have to say the amount of poop is...
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