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    CHICKEN LEARNING CURVE

    I've just started getting eggs from my three Dominques who were hatched in mid-July -- beautiful, big, strong-shelled brown eggs. So, even though the weather in New England is in the single-digits lately, they're doing their job. About one egg each, every day, deposited at various times. I, on...
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    New Englanders! Much ado about New England!

    I'd love to know about the hatchery on the Cape as well. I know the Cape pretty well and never knew about it. Course, I wasn't a chicken person till last year....
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    New Englanders! Much ado about New England!

    Hi, everyone. I'm in Canton, Mass. Let me know if there's anything chicken going on in New England, as I'd love to go. I just started last year with four Dominique chicks that arrived in mid-July. I built a Victorian-style coop that is better insulated than our own 1880 home that we are...
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    vinegar in drinking water?

    Several people said they don't use apple cider vinegar in their water during winter months. Is there any particular reason? I've been using it every day since I read about it. Even in this frigid New England winter weather. By the way, I found my bottle, with the so-called "mother" or apple...
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    straw vs. wood chips?

    I use CareFresh, looks like shredded paper but it's made from reclaimed wood pulp. It really seems to work well. But, I'm new at this (my three Dominiques, my first-ever chickens, are almost six months old) so am open to hearing if that's a good or bad idea.
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    Has Anyone Tried a Solar Waterer?

    Yes, I thought about getting that too, until I realized it won't at all help my main problem: how to keep the 3-gallon waterer in the coop from freezing. I don't have electricity in the coop. (I've found a great solar "shed light" for $30 that gives great light, using a small solar panel that...
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    If chickens are "shivering", is it time to add a heat source?

    I've been thinking of adding a radiant heater, like this: http://www.amazon.com/Indus-Tool-CL-Flat-Panel-100-Watt-Radiant/dp/B0009HMFPM/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1227215377&sr=8-16 The pluses are it's only 100 watts, and because it's a radiant heater it heats the chickens and objects, and...
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    Found a chicken that looks to have been attacked

    A coincidence -- I'm a new chicken owner, posting for the first time on the list, and I found my chicken in the jaws of a hawk this afternoon. I heard a scream and ran to the backyard. Very similar to your story, except I witnessed the attack. (Well, the end of it.) I ran at the hawk for about...
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