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    Need quickie advice, building now

    we used a old truck cap and added some wood sides to raise it up works great has top on it plus windows that open in summer made doors at one end have other end right close to hen house as we can
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    Mites! How do I get rid of them?

    I also do not like de I have found when I did use it, it took my breath away so hubbie and I both said if it does this to us must do it to our chickens so just use the Vaseline and the skin on the one chickens legs is so smooth and clean, do have a chicken with a growth on her foot and half...
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    Mites! How do I get rid of them?

    have you taken the dead chicken to the votech vet to see why it died, mine had mites but you could see it right away as the legs show scales on them and I clean them with vasaline at night and it kills the mites and the scales full off my girl picked it off after a while
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    -I have 38 hens and one is an egg eater but have not found out which, we are only getting 9 too 12 eggs a day now, yes some are molting, but I have three I know have not layed in 4 mths we have a white chick and she was given us a nice big white egg and then my blueie stopped laying too but...
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    I'm never gonna get an egg!!!

    i have 40 chickens one rooster is handicapped runs from the hens and then I have 2 smaller roosters that are just about the age to put in coop with others, but out of all the hens we have we are only getting 8 to 12 eggs a day. we have one hen that lad a nice big white egg, and the easter egger...
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    Should I swap my rooster?

    i would say keep him if good with you guys, we have one that hates my husband, will go after him when he is feeding them,
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    she was one we hatched with a hen she was red. have to go see if I have picture
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    she was a sex link the other one was a bar rock,
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    i had 29 hens and 2 roos, then i lost one one week, now last week i lost my baby she talked to us when we went in to clean the coop she keep all the other chickens out till i was done talking to me the whole time. last week we found her dead in the morning she was fine the day before, i took her...
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    that is not the reason we can not get down we are both handiecaped and can not get down to even see if eggs are there, when my daughter was here she use to get down and get the eggs with a rake. we make it so we can take care of our pets ourself
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    there is no noles or opens in the camper it is like an air streamer camper, very closed, we took them all out of it we had two coops one my hubbie made for the peeps then when they are biger we put them in the camper coop, we had 15 peeps which were about ready to go into the big one, we took...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    that maybe it, hubbie was so upset when he came in, we had a camper as coop and another reg coop it was the camper, we just finished taken birds out and moving them to coop as there are a lot of places things can hind in, since we are not sure how or where it got in we are playing it safe, the...
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    question about coop cleaning

    we have used deep litter for a coupe years now i clean it once in the winter, then i do it twice in the summer, if nest box gets poop in it i just take poop out and add a hand full of chips then i mix them up takes about 5 mins for all 6 nests i do not use bags as we can only get the plastic...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    hubbie just went out to take care of chickens found one looks like something got into coop at night, her neck looked like something went around it no hair left on her neck, never saw anything like this before, was wondering if snake would do something like this. we do live in farm country so it...
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    i have a sun room which we now call the living room, we are always in it one window is higher then the rest as we used the one that was in the old dinning room wall that we opened for door to sun room we put a gas fire place there the kind you just put out the wall no long pipe going up, it...
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