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    Is this enough ventilation?

    Here we get fewer tornados and more snow! Adding insulation to the roof will help in summer, as long as it's not inhabited by unwanted critters. And as long as your birds can't get to it either. We have good shade in the south and west sides of our coop, and insulation in the roof still helps...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    One more thing, sorry. Electrical issues, important for fire safety, and insisted on by our insurance company: all wiring in conduit or other chew proof cable, outlets exterior grade, and line to coop buried up to code. Essential! Rodent damage is real, and chickens may bite exposed wires...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    Don't cut into your framing! It looks barely adequate already. Agree with openings as recommended by @KyCoop, at least. And remove the windows, use hardware cloth there instead. Maybe cover the lower sections in winter, at least on the windward side. Those ready made louvered house vents can...
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    Looking for Suggestions

    So true about bears, which is why the recommendation is to bait the fence with bacon strips or something, so the bear will do a 'taste test' and get really zapped, definitely not a pleasant experience. Also a really hot fence charger, and preferably having the electric tape backed up by a...
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    Guide BYC Trophies Points - Get A Trophy Easy Peasy!

    Glad I checks here, I've also wondered what happened to the 'trophy points' awards. Hope it gets fixed someday... Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Im did too, and several times the loose birds were my d'Uccles! The episode at the store parking lot, with my Chantie rooster, was a time I didn't bring that net. Stupid on my part, for sure. Mary
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    I was talking about trainability, and agree that someone happy to work around a difficult rooster can certainly do that. (Same with difficult individuals of other species.) It's also totally reasonable to decide what behaviors a person will decide to deal with. And children's safety is most...
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    Blaming the victim, not better. And fear is a reasonable response, often life saving, not something to blame. Horses, dogs, and humans all have more 'brains' than any chicken! Mary
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    Horses!

    Very sweet! Good find! I think splash, look it up. And an individual spotted horse can carry genes for several patterns. Mary
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    Treating Tapeworms - Under Construction

    Fenbendazole for five days at the correct dosage kills a very few tapeworm species. Otherwise, praziquantel gets all tapes, but isn't approved for poultry in the USA. Mary
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    I have two hens who are less polite than most, and neither will have chicks here, ever! One is Speckled Sussex, who took real work on my part to stop her biting, at my jeans for anything she wanted. Serious biting, and I kept her rather than moving her on to someone less experienced, or with...
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    Chicks!!

    Chick bins at TSC are dangerous places, it's so easy to fall for those babies! Happens to me often... Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    @Dreamzchaser, all the best as you get through this sad time, and know that we are all thinking of you, and hope to hear from you as you can. Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    So, now that we only have a bantam rooster, our BLR Wyandotte hen wants to brood those nice infertile eggs. Where was this idea when we had fertile eggs?! :barnie We also have plenty of chickens and don't need more this year, so she's going to be frustrated and not raise little ones now. Don't...
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    Cull, Rehome, or Rehabilitate/Reintegrate?

    I'm sorry, but this isn't a good story for her. Whatever's wrong, it's unlikely that she will get better, and it's miserable for her to have to live alone. Maybe, a very big maybe, she could manage with a couple or three much younger chicks, who wouldn't pick on her, at least now. I've never...
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