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    Chicks outside at night in New England

    I'm in Massachusetts and I've got four chicks that are about five weeks old. I'm thinking about taking them outside in 2-3 weeks to meet their future coopmates, a pair of one year old New Hampshire Reds. I'll be leaving them outside in a separate enclosure for the day in about four weeks...
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    Dusting birds?

    I recently cleaned out the coop due to a mite infestation. As PeepersMama and Wyorp Rock suggested I dusted the coop (and myself) with DE and replaced all bedding and straw. Now that I've done that, how do I treat the birds? I put a handful of DE on their backs and tried working it into the...
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    Tiny bugs on eggs

    I changed the straw bedding in my chicken's nesting boxes yesterday. (2 NH Reds, 1 Auracana/Easter Egger about 7 months old) Today, when I went to get their eggs, I found one egg with traces of waste on it and about 8-10 tiny bugs crawling on it. I'm thinking mites of some sort. What can I do...
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    Height between dropping board and roost?

    What's convenient for me? I don't know... I was planning on making the board removable so I figured a couple of inches. This is my first coop build so there's a bit of a learning curve. No such thing as a stupid question, right?
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    Height between dropping board and roost?

    I'm building my coop with the dropping board 2 feet above the floor. How much room do I need between the board and the roost?
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    Automatic chicken door

    I saved that video too. I think the only thing I'd do differently is to replace the lever switches with magnetic proximity switches. Less moving parts to go bad.
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    Question regarding chicken eyes

    One of my birds (An auracana) developed an eye irritation a while ago which was successfully treated. While keeping an eye on that bird, I noticed that the eye that was irritated ended up being more deeply set than the other. This was also the case with my other auracana and to a lesser extent...
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    Getting young birds interested in treats

    Thanks for the response. It looks like the three birds are doing fine, eating and drinking with reckless abandon. So I can rule out sickness or injury. I think they're just not interested yet. This is fine because my mealworm farm is just starting out and I got a little impatient. It would be...
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    Getting young birds interested in treats

    I have six birds about four weeks old, two Araucanas, two Buff Orpingtons, and two New Hampshire Reds. In the last four days I've started trying to give each bird one or two mealworms a day. Three of the birds go batty for them, running over each other to get to the mealworm I'm holding, yet the...
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    Building First Coop - Determining Coop Size

    I'm building my first coop for what I thought was four but is now six chickens. I was planning on building a raised 4x4 foot platform and building the coop on that. I plan to build a 12x4 foot enclosed run with the coop covering 4x4 feet of it. I'm also going to attach a much larger open space...
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