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    Rogue Free Range Broody Hens

    Two of my hens have gone missing! They don't show up when it is time to shut up the coop for the night, but we have seen them out and about for a bit in the morning. This happened with a different hen last year. Our dog found her nest for us and we were able to move the little family to the coop...
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    My Chickens LOVE Chicken Salad!!!

    The weed in the photo is plantain - according to Mother Earth News, humans can eat it too!
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    What do you do for a living?

    I'm a puppeteer - corcoranpuppets.com I need to get a photo of my chicken rod puppet on my website!
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    Eye patch, or monocle?

    Dr. Brooderle, a BO roo who hatched last March, has become blind in one eye. The pupil of his right eye is but a pinhole, and I have noticed that he has to swivel his head around to see stuff. I don't recall any injuries or infections - and I don't think it was this way this summer. What to do...
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    what do people use for lighting in the coop

    My coop has solar lighting! I bought some of those solar yard lights, mounted the collectors on the roof of the coop, and put the lights inside. It probably isn't the greatest for egg production as the intensity of light fluctuates with the solar input.
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    Do you let them out in the winter?

    If it is above 10 degrees out, I open the pop door. And like Sparks (who is also in Wisconsin!) I throw bags of leaves on top of snow. When the sun shines on the darker leaves, it melts the snow beneath. Our chickens don't like to stand in snow, but they do like to eat it!
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    Which roo to keep?

    I have two buff orpington cockerals - hatched March 21. One matured very early (roo1) - he is currently the king of the ark (2pullets, 3 roos). The other bo roo (roo2) is still rather gangley, but obviously a bigger bird. Roo1 looks like an adult rooster. Roo2 has longer tail feathers - just a...
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    Overabundance of yellow tomatoes..what do I do with them??

    I can them right along with the red ones - if you want it to look fabulous, alternate layers of red and yellow. (I always put 2T lemon juice in my canned tomatoes....)
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    It Worked! It Worked!

    Thank you BackYard Chicken people! We had a 4 week old Cornish Cross whose legs collapsed. He just sat there on his heels, or keeled over on his side. I started giving him Polyvisol drops (no iron) twice a day, and propping him in front of food and water where he didn't have to compete with the...
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    My Ameraucanas look like hawks :-)

    I have an Ameraucana/SL Cochin cross, and yes indeed, she looks like a bird of prey, as does her offspring!
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    eye injury

    When I was out visiting our chicks this evening (they are 3 months old - and in this hot weather, I have been letting them free range nearly all day), I noticed one chick's eye was swollen and gunked shut. I swabbed the gunk off with warm water and a cotton ball, then switched to cool water...
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    Chickens.. Afraid of the Dark??!

    We've been using solar yard lights inside the coop - initially in the Fall to give them some more light to keep them laying eggs. But it is so easy! The solar collector is on top of the coop. The light isn't super bright - but it makes it easy to take attendance after dark....... and no addition...
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    Whats in your back yard?? Show pics!!

    Rebecca10782 - your photos are beautiful! Are you an artist? The dog photos are stunning! Love your chickens!
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    7 weeks old - spraddle leg returns

    Poor little chick - she is a 7 week old BO. She had leg problems earlier, and spent about 2 - 3 weeks with the bandaid thing, isolated so no one would pick on her. She seemed to be getting along quite well. No problem introducing her back to her broody mom and sibling. Well, we were gone for the...
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    sheep version of chicken tractor?

    Hi Folks! I would like to build a sheep version of a chicken tractor for our three sheep so we can move them around the yard to cut the grass. Anyone have any experience with this? Any designs or plans? Panels on wheels?
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