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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    12 dirty eggs from my wet footed hens. Bless their pea brains. I love them.
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    We're getting rain..lots of it. The run is 3/4 covered with a tarp. The quarter of the run that is open is absolutely saturated with water. An hour ago, it began puddling. Every hen decided to try her hand at being a duck. Instead of staying in the dry areas where the roost, food, nesting boxes...
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    🍁What Are You Thankful For This Year?

    Love this idea for a thread. Sometimes it's too easy to get caught up in the daily things that annoy you, and it's great to be able to take stock and look at the big picture. I'm thankful my brother-in-law is alive to see another Thanksgiving with us. Last year, he was diagnosed with stage 4...
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today - 2025

    Wash eggs, wash eggs, and wash more eggs. :celebrate
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    12 today. The fowl pox has cleared and so far there are no signs of molting.
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    Best methods for rain proofing?

    I went with a 20 mil clear tarp for the entire run, 20x10. Buy once, cry once. Keeps them dry and allows sun in. I have a prefab round top run, so it was the best option for me. We are having the same storm, the wind blew the rain in from the NE, but it only reached about 1.5 feet in on 1/4 of...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    54 degrees. We had a decent storm move in overnight and it's still raining. This is the first real rain the girls have experienced. The run is fully covered on top, but with the wind, there are wet spots inside. Some of them must have stood on the open side because they have wet droopy tails.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    11, but someone was showing off. I've got to go give away eggs tomorrow, there's no more room in my fridge.
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    Being picky eaters!! They are worse than cats. They devour it one week, so I buy that item in bulk...they refuse to touch it again. I've tried leaving the food that they decided was unacceptable, thinking they would eat it when they were hungry enough. They didn't touch it for over 24 hours...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    12. Even with the fowl pox, there's been no days below 9 eggs.
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today - 2025

    Added sand to the run. I splurged on the sand, but I do love it. Gave up on the tomatoes. Picked a bunch of strawberries.
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    Why does your chicken hate you today?

    My laughing hen is having a tantrum over sand being added to the run. They all thought the activity of having the barrier put in was great fun. However the 4 bags of sand added to the back third of the run is unacceptable to her. She's going to lose her mind when the entire run is sand.
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    Sand bedding

    It's the 'chicken sand'. I just bought 4 bags from Amazon at 110.00. It didn't cover 1/3 of the run lol. I like the look and consistency much better than the Lowes Construction sand...but I'm going to run over to the landscaping tomorrow to see if I can find an alternative.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    10. I'm sure it will decrease further. I just discovered my flock has been struck by dry fowl pox. Poor darlings.
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    Trying to get an idea of how many out there do free range vs chicken runs/enclosed.

    I'm in suburban hell..I have to keep them in a run. If I had property, I would let them roam during the day and put them up at night.
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