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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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    Tar spot fungus

    My chickens frequent a spot where one of my trees contracted tart spot fungus, now this is not normally a worry for me but this is a first for my chickens being around it and I would rather not spread a fungicide if I don't have to. Will this effect them at all? Thanks much!
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    My dog, the pooper scooper.

    Our 3 year old pit bull Rocko, the self proclaimed protecter of our flock, has gotten into a bad habit of going behind the chickens and eating their poop, you would swear they had bags of skittles flying out their buttes they way he goes out hunting for scat. So far he hasn't gotten sick and I...
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    How do I bathe my chickens to get rid of mites?

    Has anyone used this? I use this on my one dog as for some reason they prefer her to my 3 others. I would like to know if it's chicken safe as well.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Square Feet Per Chicken?

    So far the cheapest option I've seen is about 50$ per 6'x8' section, putting in the sections I want myself (and family), will be about 3k.we wanted to do this for a long time and the chick's just gave me extra incentive to do it. I will take extra help though! 😅
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    How do I bathe my chickens to get rid of mites?

    Food grade DE is digestible per animal weight, I use it every week with my birds in their coop, not only in the cracks and crevices of the coop, but in the bedding as well, usually a couple tablespoons at best. I have a dozen birds in the coop and they like to bath themselves in the pine...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Many Square Feet Per Chicken?

    Free ranging in western PA, have 20 acres and plan on fencing in 2 acres for our growing flock.
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    Hello!

    Thank you, chickens are definitely one of the more curious animals I've raised. And before we started my wife was scared to death of birds, now she can't wait to get out and feed the chick's as they come out and follow her as soon as they see her. And since I've had them our mole problem...
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