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    Questions from a newbie on deep litter method

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's no way my four chickens could make a dent in all my grass! Like you said, it grows quick and fast here, and I've got a lot of it. Not to mention that in most of the garden, I will eventually want to be planting things that I DON'T want eaten, so free ranging them...
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    Questions from a newbie on deep litter method

    Thanks everyone! I had a feeling I might have been descending into full-blown paranoia about the grass. The parrots I grew up with, though, were highly neurotic souls and would probably have had little feathered nervous breakdowns if they'd encountered weed whackers. Ridgerunner, good points...
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    Questions from a newbie on deep litter method

    Thanks so much - this was really helpful! I will definitely avoid adding food scraps to the girls' deep litter. I realized there's another place I can use them anyway before I get a compost pile - I'm having a lot of excavation done and the excavated dirt is being piled into berms. It's not...
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    Adult chickens in new home

    Thanks!! In the beginning (until the llamas arrive and the enclosure for everyone is built), the chickens will only free range when I'm around to supervise. I'll have them in their run during the day with the door to the coop open, and then locked in the coop at night. Do you think I need to put...
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    Any such things as Chicken Toys?

    There is actually a chicken toy for sale on Amazon (and probably elsewhere)! I bought one, but my chickens haven't arrived yet, so I can't say whether they like it or not. It's basically a chicken version of the dog and cat toys where you put treats inside a ball and the animal has to roll it...
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    Adult chickens in new home

    Hi, I am about to adopt my first chickens - 4 3-year-old Golden Comets. They belonged to a friend who's trading them in for younger models since they don't lay much anymore, so it's either the foxes get them or I do. My friend treated them pretty well, but definitely as livestock, whereas I...
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    Questions from a newbie on deep litter method

    Hi all, I'm about to get my first chickens (4 3-year-old girls adopted from a friend) and am very intrigued by the deep litter method, but I have several questions. I'd appreciate advice and insights from anyone who has tried this. I've read a fair amount online about it, but there are many...
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    Eglu/Omlet concerns/warning

    Yes - it doesn't leak!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Frankly, I'm amazed. There was a torrential rain yesterday afternoon, though, and steady rain most of the night. This morning I went out and opened the roof and the only water in the coop was drops coming off the roof when I moved it. Now, the coop still isn't...
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    Eglu/Omlet concerns/warning

    Interesting about the walls. I finally got mine together and tested it for waterproof-ness with a hose and it did leak. Not sure about an actual rain, but we're supposed to get thunderstorms this weekend. I'm hoping that part of the leaking might be due to the difference in hose ''rain'' vs real...
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    Eglu/Omlet concerns/warning

    So this morning I attempted the assembly with a friend. It definitely doesn't take just 2 hours as Omlet claims! We worked for 2.5 hours, until my friend had to leave, and we didn't finish. I don't know yet if it leaks, because after my friend left, I tried to get the roof on and couldn't do it...
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    Eglu/Omlet concerns/warning

    Unfortunately, it's not the case where I live that there are lots of (or even any) people available to do that kind of work competently and for a reasonable price. Believe me, I know, because since I moved into this house over a year ago, I've been trying to find someone to do things on the...
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    Eglu/Omlet concerns/warning

    Ugh, that's awful! I'm so worried now that mine will be warped too. Going to try assembling it next week with the help of a friend. Please let me know how the return process goes. Are you based in the UK or US? I'm not even sure how I'd begin to return mine, since they only ship it via Greyhound...
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    Hi from Virginia

    Yes, I think I may have to do that! Apparently they're notoriously bad at responding to customer complaints - since my coop arrived in such a mess, I've been googling and found a number of threads even at Omlet's own forum where posters have had the same issue I did with the coop coming all...
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    Hi from Virginia

    Thanks! I've read about the supplemental lighting being bad too, so I am also planning not to do that. Good to have some confirmation! I think my future adoptees may already have calcium issues, since according to Susan, their current ''mom'', at least one of them is eating her/their own eggs...
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    Eglu/Omlet concerns/warning

    I still haven't tried the assembly - I'm dreading it and waiting till a friend can help out, and also till some excavation going on at my house is done. I'm worried about the gaps too though, as after the coop arrived in such a mess, I started googling ''problems with Eglu'' and apparently the...
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