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    Looking for a few healthy pullets in New Hampshire

    Hi everyone! We lost two of our girls in the last year, and now have one lady, Ginger, left (see picture). We would like to get a few more ASAP so she isn't lonely. We got our three from Agway as pullets less than two years ago. One appeared to have a clipped beak, but other than that they...
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    Rosie's Red Scarf

    I love her grumpy glance down at it. :lol:
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    I Need Photos Of Your Pets/Animals!

    I took this picture of Ginger yesterday morning. The sunlight made her just absolutely radiant! She is a Red Sex Link, about 2 years old.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I discovered this discussion the other day. I've been off BYC for a while, but we recently lost one of our first ladies and wanted to find some solace :hitI started at the beginning and am only on page 175. I need a few days off to catch up! Thank you BYBob. Reading about your special girls you...
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    How long have you had urban chickens? How has it worked out for you?

    Here they are eating some grass on a rare warm day. You can see Rosie - her comb is small and pale. She died a week later. :hit Yolko is the curious camera ham, and Ginger is our wanna be rooster, aka boss of the chicken applesauce.
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    How long have you had urban chickens? How has it worked out for you?

    We live in the biggest city in New Hampshire and got 3 chickens a year and a half ago. We have friends who live in more rural areas, (which can mean anywhere from 10 to 30 miles from our city) and they have lost all their chickens to predators. Not night time ones, either. They would let their...
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    Fluffy Butt Friday (RE-MAKE)

    Her full name is Yolko Ono. :D
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    Fluffy Butt Friday (RE-MAKE)

    Yolko and Ginger posed perfectly for a double fluff butt shot this morning.
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    Is She Moulting? Or Sick?

    Try this: https://www.backyardchickencoops.com.au/blogs/learning-centre/help-hens-moulting-season
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    Drafts and temperature

    You could look at this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/winter-coop-temperatures.47763/
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    Why are we raising chickens?

    We got our first chickens this past August. We got three red sex link pullets from the local Agway. My boyfriend and I have never had pets (we've been together 13 years). I am allergic to pretty much every pet, plus dust. We always viewed pets as something of "shit factories" that also mess up...
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    Frostbite - 1st occurrence

    I cringe whenever I see the girls dunk their wattles into the water, then wander off in the freezing cold. Ouch!
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    Automatic door

    We just got the Chicken Doors.com Pullet Shut automatic door a week ago, and it is awesome. Came with a solar panel, battery and light sensor. Works great.
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    Frozen water heater...

    I got two of these bowls in July from Amazon for $8. They are now selling for $30 since it is winter. Both are kept on the ground outside and have been on and working great since New Hampshire froze over in November or so. I dump out the water, wipe them down and add new water every few days and...
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    Opinions of cold climate chicken keepers needed

    Can you move the roost a bit? Our roost is about 7 inches from the wall, so they could touch the panel if they wanted, but I imagine they have enough sense to not do that. After we installed it we joked how it looks like they have a sweet flat screen TV in there.
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