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    Chicken poo storage

    Do they poo at night in their coop? I use PDZ on a tray I made directly under their perches. Every morning, I use a scooper (I found a black one with loads of holes at the dollar store that’s perfect for this.) I scoop it into an ice cream bucket and then dump that in a metal pail that has a...
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    Chicken poo as fertilizer

    My birds can only free range when I'm available to babysit them to keep them from my neighbor's property (who complained). We have an acre so fencing is too expensive to consider. I love when they are out though.
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    Chicken poo as fertilizer

    These are all wonderful answers. I have a few physical limitations and I was hoping to deliver the goods as a liquid fertilizer, I think they call it manure tea? Since I am able to carry a gallon tank around easily. I already compost most of it, with a pile of yard waste an kitchen waste so I...
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    Chicken poo as fertilizer

    Has anyone successfully (hopefully easily) used their chicken's poop as a fertilizer or their lawn? I'm thinking of making a quick manure tea with recent poo using about 1-10 poo to water ratio in a five gallon bucket and then using the liquid after a couple days to spread on my lawn using my...
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    Poopy butt or infection?

    I will. I was wrong about the ferment, on the second day without she had watery stools again. I’m giving the probiotic in the ferment skipping days now and then but so far, she still “wets” the PDZ. Her butt looks a little cleaner since we clipped her feathers but haven’t caught her again to see...
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    Poopy butt or infection?

    Th Thanks for being specific! I need that. I have some of the powder probiotic stuff I bought when they were chicks but did not want to add to the water. Could that be added to yogurt? Also would yogurt increase the diarrhea?
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    Poopy butt or infection?

    Great. That’s what I was thinking. They did not get the ferment yesterday but there were still a couple wet type poops on the board. I’ll see tomorrow. Was thinking how I could get her some probiotics or whether I should just give it to them all.
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    Poopy butt or infection?

    Hi all. One of our 5 girls has had diarrhea on and off and a poopy butt. I finally help in holding her while I clipped away as much as I could and asked a bit. We have no experience with this. She even squirted some right out as we worked. Yuck! I did not see any bugs or mites. But as you can...
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    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    I was asked to chime in, lol. Happy to as we are in our 2nd year now with our 5 hens. We had a roo, but he became too aggressive when he hit puberty and in our size pen, it became too hard to do chores and enjoy my girls. We culled him, and not to waste, I forced myself to make a delicious dish...
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    Missing feathers molting or illness.

    Oh thank you so much. What a relief! It was such a huge number of feathers! I raised 12 from day one then split up the tribe and gave half to my son. We both culled our Roos (puberty was not kind to them or us😬.) so his and mine are exact same age. Mine are not molting, I think, but what do I...
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    Winter molting

    We have some light feather loss and an occasional bigger feather or two and I saw ours pulling out a. Few chest feathers on themselves. We treated with ivermectin and dusted the coop with DE. But my son’s, same age as mine, are dropping tons! We live in upstate ny. No idea if it’s molting or...
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    Missing feathers molting or illness.

    My son has 4 Rhode Island Red chickens about 1 1/2 years old which live in an eglu and have a large open air pen. They seem to be suffering a lot of feather loss, one more than others but all are starting to show bare spots and he fears it could be illness. They were treated twice with...
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    Dirt or grass for run

    Hi I know this is kind of an old thread but we just moved our coop and run to a grassy spot for summer. We used deep litter for the run all winter and it was great. Very clean and pretty dry too considering the amount of rain and snow we get. There are five chickens in a 9x13 run and they have...
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    Blu kote

    Hi Dobie, where do you find pine tar?
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    Chick injury/separation and reintegration

    Wish I saw this before I sprayed a hen an hour ago. She's been being picked on and now its bare and red again so I sprayed this Bluekote stuff people recommended and they immediately went after her. I feel awful! I wonder if there is a smell they hate and maybe when they get close they'll leave...
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