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    Hen acting slow and not much interest today, what’s wrong?

    Put her back out with the others yesterday and she went to roost as normal. Today she wasn’t the last one down and was acting more like normal. She checked out nest box but not sure if she laid because when i went back out there to check others were in there and had a couple eggs. Her eggs...
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    Hen acting slow and not much interest today, what’s wrong?

    Today she is acting a little more like herself. She still was the last one down from the roost (around 830) but was down in the run with everyone else and somewhat more social when out free-ranging. I crushed the calcium pill onto her food, checked her vent and soaked her in epsom bath. Her...
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    Hen acting slow and not much interest today, what’s wrong?

    Thank you for suggestions, I will try both tomorrow to see if that helps. She’s 1.5 years. I don’t have the calcium supplement but will pick some up tomorrow morning. I know she laid a couple of days ago, but hasn‘t the past 2 days. The pics were all from today. I tried to upload a video of...
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    Hen acting slow and not much interest today, what’s wrong?

    My Buff Orpington, Honey, has been acting off today. She is 1.5 yrs and has not had any noticeable changes prior to today regarding behavior, eating, drinking, laying... She has been “mopey” today, standing or perching away from others and not overly active with scratching or running for...
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    Hardware Cloth—what size and gauge

    We used 1/2” x 100’, 19 gauge black hardware cloth that we bought on Amazon. Ours was 36” (fit our design better) and the brand was Jackson Wire. At the time (Jan 2020) it was around $140 and free shipping.
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    cooling off your chickens

    Mine are all about treats, so not sure if this will help yours until they decide they want to try them. I give them bags of the frozen cut up veges (any mix really, like peas carrots corn etc...)and if we have any fresh fruits/veges past their prime - i refrigerate or freeze to give them. They...
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    What height are everyones coop off the floor?

    Mine is 30” off the ground and is perfect for our planned use. I wanted enough space that if I needed to get under there for any reason, I could. The coop is 6’x6’ and summers are hot in NC so the Chickies use it a lot for additional shade. We also have their main water bar (water nipple...
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    Thoughts on what breeds these are? Cochin, Brahma, RIR, PBR, B. Orpington?

    The RSL (Meyers’ - Golden Buff), AKA “Pumpkin”, fortunately was female. She was the 1st (and only so far) to start laying 2 weeks ago. She has laid 14 eggs in 15 days, her 1st being a double yolk. Can’t wait for all the rest to start laying... Thanks for input and confirmation of hen breeds...
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    Thoughts on what breeds these are? Cochin, Brahma, RIR, PBR, B. Orpington?

    Uh-oh, hope she’s not a he - I’m not sure how I would like crowing outside my bedroom window since that’s where their coop will be... She is changing everyday, for now I’ll keep guessing and will post updated pics in a week or so to see if “she” becomes more identifiable.
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    New to BYC

    Thanks everyone! The research definitely helped me have an idea of where to start, I also attended a couple local flock swaps to check it all out. Attending those couple helped me to decide that I wanted to start with newly hatched chicks and prompted me to order the night after the 2nd one...
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    Thoughts on what breeds these are? Cochin, Brahma, RIR, PBR, B. Orpington?

    Great, thanks for feedback. She (#5) was more yellow. Here are pics at 1 week old. Pics #2 and 4 are of her I think. Pics #1 and 3 are of all 8 chicks huddled around “their” thermometer - they still love that thing and 4 weeks later, take turns sleeping next to it... Pics #5-6 are of a...
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    New to BYC

    Hello, After a couple years of wanting, and months of researching coop designs, chick tips, etc... I finally jumped in and ordered 7 chicks with a Meyer meal maker, so I ended up with 8, 2-day old chicks. The past 4 weeks has been fun and busy. We are finishing up our coop/run build and should...
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    Thoughts on what breeds these are? Cochin, Brahma, RIR, PBR, B. Orpington?

    I’m a complete newbie; starting out with 8 chicks, hatched 11/4/2019. I wanted a variety and thought it would be fun to figure out what they were from a couple of the Meyer’s assortments. I ordered 3 from the production pack, 2 from the rare assortment, 2 from the rainbow assortment and also...
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