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    Watering in the coop

    The reason I ask is I've heard keeping water in coop is bad for humidity, but hopefully my ventilation is good.?.?
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    I'm looking for a heat plate that will be on when plugged in. (edited to make clearer)

    lol, I just looked into this very heater earlier today and was planning to stop by tsc and pick one up. Thanks
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    I'm looking for a heat plate that will be on when plugged in. (edited to make clearer)

    Sorry, I wasn't clear. This is for my adult chickens in the coop. I will be using only when temps get below 0º F and I cannot be turning it on and off manually with my/our work schedule
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    I'm looking for a heat plate that will be on when plugged in. (edited to make clearer)

    I plan on using a plug in thermostat, so I don't want to accidentally buy a heat plate that has an actual button that needs to be pushed to turn on. I want this to start heating when the thermostat kicks in. Can anyone give me suggestions on heat plates that are like this? (edited- this is for...
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    lol, possibly lower in the pecking order, but why suddenly all 4 days after the time change?
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    Update day 4 after time change: 1 chicken missed the closing of the coop door again. This is bizzare.
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    You are correct with the opening statement. Sunrise in my area (standard time) is 6:43 am this morning and Dec. 20 it will be 7:37am. This is why I changed it to 8:00 standard time rather than keeping it at 7:00 standard time so they won’t be out in the dark.
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    This is the only thing that changed, so quite possible. The reason I changed the opening time was so they Wouldn’t be let out in the dark. Don’t ask me why I thought I should do that.😎😎
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    The time the coop door closes has not changed. I watch it on my camera in the run and coop. It’s closing when it should, 20 minutes after sunset.
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    So you feel like the drastic 1 hour change in the morning, opening the coop to let them out is affecting them? That is the only thing that I changed.
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    I have video cameras on them and the door closes 20 after sunset every evening, which is changing~ 2 minutes a day right now. It’s almost like it’s scripted, that when my cameras switch to infrared mode the door closes within a minute or two. This was again the case last night. No supplemental...
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    Time change is affecting my chickens

    Ever since we turned the clocks back an hour for standard time, 3 days ago, I've either had some chickens miss the coop door closing and they get locked out of the coop, or like tonight, 3 days after the time change, the whole flock got locked out. I have had it set to close 20 minutes after...
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    Rooster Attacked my wife for the first time.

    The rooster is about six and a half months old and only has small nubbin spurs right now, but he still managed to put a good dent (and bruise) on my wife’s ankle while she was painting posts in the run. We bought eight chicks in May and didn’t want any roosters, but unfortunately one of the...
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    Training to drink from a Premier 1 Waterer

    I'm trying to train my chickens to drink from this nipple waterer since it will be heated for winter. The other day I let their regular waterer go dry, sat with them and took their beaks and pressed them into the nipples to get water out. It seemed to work pretty good and most if not all were...
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    When will my chickens start roosting at night?

    I'm new to raising chickens and this is their first week in the new coop and run. My chickens basically all huddled in the corner on the floor the first night, the next night 6 of the 8 roosted and the other two huddled in the same corner and night 3 and on so far, they have all come in from the...
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