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    Using fresh wood chip in a chicken run

    Awesome, thank you both so much! 🙂
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    Using fresh wood chip in a chicken run

    Reviving this thread because I have a follow up question - I have a chip pile that I know is safe in terms of the type of wood, but it's been sitting for several months and the weather has now turned wet, so even having a few inches dry at a time will be very tough to make happen... If the chips...
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    Hawk attack! What now???

    I can commiserate! I've had two very close calls with my girls (6 bantams) in the past month - so close that the hawk was tumbling around with the bird each time until I ran all the way over to scare it off. After the first attack, in which my husband and I were standing about 30 ft away, I...
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    Do chickens eat and pass plastic?

    I will take a pic! But basically it's very tiny pieces of plastic, some are as small as 1/4 of a nail, and some are more like 1/2 a bottlecap, and much of it is little pieces of plastic bag... a good reminder to all that this stuff truly exists forever and we should all take any chance we have...
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    Do chickens eat and pass plastic?

    Yes :( it's in our blood and even in the tiny microorganisms that live under glaciers...I'm an environmental attorney and my chickens and my garden help me to escape the existential dread after work each day, so I think the realization that it's totally permeated my yard has been extra difficult...
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    Do chickens eat and pass plastic?

    This makes me feel much better! Thanks :)
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    Do chickens eat and pass plastic?

    I'm glad to know yours don't seem to eat it. I can't tell how often mine do...Honestly I may get out the binoculars and see if I can tell, lol. I see them toss pieces aside sometimes, but usually it's a bigger piece they do this with, so I can only assume they eat the tiny ones :(
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    Do chickens eat and pass plastic?

    I was thinking the same thing, that they eat grit...so it should be okay...i just hope the bigger pieces aren't getting stuck, resulting in some accumulation over time that harms them...agh. Most is very tiny but some is a little bigger, like 1/4 of a bottle cap for instance (and I do think some...
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    Do chickens eat and pass plastic?

    Hello friends, I've never raised chickens in the suburbs until this past year, and am finding that our yard is full of microplastic. I just had $1k worth of organic topsoil delivered for landscaping, and hoped this would dilute the plastic quite a bit, and even THIS has plastic in it 😭 I see my...
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    Are these symptoms likely to be CRD? Sneezing/mild lethargy with temp change.

    Oh wow, super helpful--i just looked it up, and now that I think about it, we did have a weird thin shell a week or so ago but I didn't know who it came from. Hopefully it is that! Thank you :)
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    Are these symptoms likely to be CRD? Sneezing/mild lethargy with temp change.

    Hello friends, Susan, an 8 month-old bantam RIR, is not handling our Oregon weather very well. It's been snowing for the past week or so (came out of seemingly nowhere/big temperature swings) and with that has come frequent sneezing. The other 5 chickens stayed in the coop, on their own accord...
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    My chicks are allergic to... new experiences?

    How odd that you've had chicks other years in the same location with no sneezing! Glad to not be alone though :confused:
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    My chicks are allergic to... new experiences?

    Definitely a good point, but I hold them several times a day near where there brooder is located in my finished basement! I don't wear any perfume, non-scented laundry detergent (and they are near the laundry area just like Maryn7's are). So I think in this instance that isn't a common...
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    My chicks are allergic to... new experiences?

    LOL THE DRAMA!!! Few things are more dramatic sounding than a diva duck, I can hear her now... 😂
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    My chicks are allergic to... new experiences?

    I did see yours are also from Cackle and it gave me a laugh! (I just did ALL I could do avoid saying it gave me a cackle). I thought it was just because these are my first "city chickens"...I've never had chickens as a city dweller before and I'm not used to keeping them inside SO much, but...
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