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    Nesting box vs Roosting bar

    I block the nesting boxes after 4 or 5 in the evening. Then after they roost, I go and remove the block so they can lay as early as they please in the morning. Once they are settled in around 8 or 9 pm, I have not had any instances of moving down from the roosting bar to the nest box.
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    Winter exit stage north - electrical where to?

    Hi Everyone, My hens survived our first winter together with help from electricity for supplemental light, heat, and a heated water base. Do you leave your electrical stuff in the coop all spring, summer, and fall, or do you move it into storage?
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    Egg efficiency in the winter?

    Sounds low to me. My RIRs are egg machines; they are the same age as yours. If they aren't laying an egg a day something is likely wrong (frozen water, limited feed). Mine kept up during the recent subzero stretch. I have light and supplemental heat (to compensate for a first time coop...
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    old enough to know better, cOLD enough to care

    The problem is not egg eating, it is a chicken that sleeps on the ground, and now the nest box. The egg eating was a short term thing, just something I hope to not have to deal with again. As soon as I put the curtains up, they stopped. I was building one of Opa's rollout nest boxes until the...
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    old enough to know better, cOLD enough to care

    Hi Everyone First time chicken owner, first time poster, seasoned post reader and researcher. My 4 girls are ~26 weeks old, all are laying daily. I have one Barred Rock and three Red Sexlinks. My coop is 4x4x4 with a sand flood over linoleum and plenty of ventilation. It has a 4'x2"x4" roost...
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