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    Rooster suddenly aggressive

    We've had our girls and 1 rooster since day one.they are probably 8-9 months old. I've never had any problems with my rooster. He's attacked my 4 yr old once but cause my son was scared of him,but never has he attacked me. About 3 weeks ago he was injured and I kept him separated but with the...
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    Help my Roo "Doodle" limping on one leg

    So we noticed a couple months ago our rooster was limping just a little bit,like you really had to watch to notice it. So I gave him a epsom salt bath and it seemed to help him, until a bout a month ago, we noticed he was still limping, but noticeable at this point. When he's on the roost he has...
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    Chicken poop help!

    Ok thank you. It's orange but I've not seen any foam yet in it.
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    Chicken poop help!

    So my girls and boy have been having odd color poops or just watery ones. This is just and example of a few. There are some that are like a burgundy or brick color, texture of watery to smooth,but solid or like the pics not so solid. I've tried the perdue 911, chicken boost, wellness brew,and...
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    Sand and grit mix question.

    So I've decided to do sand in our run. After researching what types of sand are ok and what sands are in our area, first stressing over silica in the sand, I finally found some river sand at a local gravel etc place. Before I bought a half ton I asked the supplier if other people had used it for...
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    Roost bar

    Thank you so much. The experiment was very interesting. I think we are going to start with standard 2 inch flat and adjust if we need to and hold off on the wrapping until we see how they do.
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    Roost bar

    So I am making my poop board with the roost bar on it,& my neighbors have chickens & informed me not to use a circular roost bar, because they like to have it flat.Now I'm having to redesign my poop board/roost.I was researching on what exactly to do & I came across something that makes so much...
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    Made my own feed

    Hello. Sorry I'm new here,but what spreadsheet are you speaking about. I'm looking to make my own feed or at least half of it to stratch what they already get and would love to know if what I'm giving them is OK.
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    👋 Hello

    Photos of progress have been added. Not sure on tikes dimensions, but coop and run total 104 Sq ft. The coup sits on a platform, so we wouldn't lose the space underneath the coup. And the nesting boxes will be placed next to the coup with access from the coup instead of attaching it to one of...
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    👋 Hello

    No, we have 104 square feet thats with the coop and the run.The coop is on a platform so we wouldn't lose the ground space of where the coop sits. The nesting boxes will share the platform next to the coop but with access from the coop instead of being attached to the coop window.
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    👋 Hello

    No, we have 104 square feet with the coop and the run. The nesting boxes will sit beside the coop with access from the coopinstead of on the windows. It's on a platform so they won't lose the ground space of where the coop sits.
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    👋 Hello

    Thank you. Same to you all. Hopefully you will find your forever land. I'm worried about the market as well,we have have someone coming to appraise our house. Once we get that we will be able to figure out how much and where we can get land. We plan on moving away from where we are currently...
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    👋 Hello

    Just added some photos of our progress
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    👋 Hello

    Have followed this forum for a while ,but just now joined. I found you guys on pintrest. We recently got our first 13 chickens about 5 weeks ago. We are looking for our forever land,but have started our homesteading journey on our 1 acre lot until we do. Since I'm a new chick mama, I have so...
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