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    Rooster and hen with poop stuck to butt

    Thanks for the responses! Upon closer inspection I think the worming may be a good idea. There wasn't anything obvious in the poop on their bums, but the rooster was starting to prolapse from straining. Bless my husband's heart, he caught Russell Crow, washed his bum, treated it with honey and...
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    Rooster and hen with poop stuck to butt

    It started with just my dominique hen having some poop stuck to her bum and occasionally straining but otherwise acting fine. This morning we noticed the rooster also has runny poop stuck on his bum. Both are 8 months old. Wash their bums, check for Fly Strike, then what? Other than kind of...
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    New coop

    All but 3 went in on their own last night now that the old coop is gone. I'm hoping the last three don't try to roost in the trees forever :barnie
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    New coop

    The hardware cloth has been fixed since the first pictures, and I'll definitely be putting a threshold in as a couple of you have suggested. Is there a reason for tree branches instead? Rougher wood, easier for them to grip? I'm just curious. The old coop had 2x2s but it was a Tractor Supply...
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    New coop

    You can get them in a few sizes online
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    New coop

    Once the rod is sent over I have small carabiners through the end of the barrel so the rod can't be pulled back without removing them.
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    New coop

    The back door has a hasp and lock, and the front door has two barrel locks that get secured with carabiners. I've looked at making PVC gravity feeders to mount in if anyone has plans for those. The dummies ran straight from the old coop to the new this morning to eat. The old coop is getting...
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    New coop

    Built a new coop to get the flock out of their tiny prefab coop but the dummies won't go in it to roost. They'll hop in to eat but then at night they either go back to the tiny one or roost in the trees. Any advice to get them to go in? The old coop will be gone in a week.
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    Recovering from raccoons

    New chicks are in the coop. It was a nerve wracking 5 minutes. My 8 week old silver spangled Hamburg, Gertrude, pecked once or twice but they all seem to be happy now. She seems happy to have coop mates and the chicks seem happy to be out of the brooder. Surprisingly it doesn't seem like...
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    Recovering from raccoons

    So we have new chicks in the brooder. The modification of the coop is underway. And so far there hasn't been another sign of raccoons.
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    Recovering from raccoons

    The nest box door. If the center ring thing isn't positioned just so it will fall open by just pulling on the hasp a couple times. I put a lock through the ring and added another latch. We wrapped the bottom half (And 2 feet down) in 1 inch hardware cloth. The top half is going to be fully...
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    Recovering from raccoons

    The nest box door. If the center ring thing isn't positioned just so it will fall open by just pulling on the hasp a couple times. I put a lock through the ring and added another latch. We wrapped the bottom half (And 2 feet down) in 1 inch hardware cloth. The top half is going to be fully...
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    Recovering from raccoons

    Oh my! I'll get my husband to setup trail cameras. That is crazy!
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    Recovering from raccoons

    Yes. Too late for my babies but I have upgraded the security. I have that chintzy coop from TSC. I'm also going to enclose the top half to give them more room for roosting and add some enclosed run space in addition to free ranging them once they are a little older.
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    Recovering from raccoons

    I guess that's about what I'll have to do
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