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    What kind of lighting for winter months

    Oh, and just as a side note--I've written about it on another thread, but my parents used a light bulb to heat/light their chicken coop when I was a kid. We awoke to a blazing fire and chicken fireballs running across our lawn. It was horrible, tragic, and I will never forget it. I'm phobic...
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    What kind of lighting for winter months

    My husband hung up strings of clear Christmas lights and set them to come on at 6:30 in the morning, and go off at 8:30 at night. They worked wonderfully, they are very safe, as far as a fire hazard goes, and we hung them high enough that the chickens couldn't reach them. Best of all, the...
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    What is your friendliest Chicken? What breed is it?

    My Dominiques are the friendliest chickens I have ever been around. I can't post pictures from my phone, or I'd post a picture of my husband sitting on his lawn chair, drinking a beer, and serving as a roost to six Dom hens and one Dom rooster! LOL!
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    Thoughts on what is up with this chicken?

    Wow--I'm not sure what that is. And is it just the camera, or is her eye very dull and cloudy, too? It almost looks fungal. I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions for you.
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    Paid For It's Self Today

    Umm, I guess that's a "Youth-Model." Don't want people thinking they make guns for kids!
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    Paid For It's Self Today

    I have a Remington .243 and I love it. It puts deer down with no problem. I actually have a child's model, because I'm a petite woman, and it fits my 5'2" frame and T-Rex arms perfectly! LOL
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    Mean Hen

    I don't have much of a suggestion. I have a similar situation with some banty cochins I got. Most of my big hens ignore them, but when they are locked up in the coop, the poor little things just get driven from one end of the it to the other. The big hens aren't really being mean, but I have two...
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    Hens not laying...need help!

    I hear you on that! My chickens paying for their own feed was the only thing that was keeping DH from flipping his lid about the dust bath holes all over his well-tended lawn! LOL!
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    Hens not laying...need help!

    I think your idea about keeping them in the coop for a while is a good one--they might have felt that the coop wasn't safe for egg-laying, since it was "invaded." They could very well be laying somewhere else. And the heat is definitely a factor. I was down to 1 egg a day during July. ONE!
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    Hen Got Attacked From Person Trespassing

    I would tell him that your property is private, and that you expect him to respect that. Honey, you keep saying you're not cruel, but what you're doing is setting yourself, your chickens, and anything else on your property up to be hurt by this man. Protecting yourself and yours is not being...
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    HYPOTHETICAL DISCUSSION: What to feed your chickens when we can't buy chicken feed anymore

    I asked my dad this just this weekend, because when he was a kid, you just didn't buy chickens food. He said they dried corn and ground it up. Whenever there wasn't snow on the ground, you let them forage, and you didn't feed them at all in the summer--they fed themselves. I imagine they can...
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    One of my hens is being badly bullied

    Are they laying? Have you noticed whether this hen in particular is laying? It seems even more odd now that I know they haven't been doing it before. I hate to say it, but it really sounds like something might be wrong with her. Check her crop and abdomen for swelling.
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    Matted feathers under wing and smelly

    Some of mine will sit for a hair dryer on low. They even seem to enjoy it!
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    One of my hens is being badly bullied

    I think they mean Bluekote, and it's not an "anti-pecking" solution, but it coats the wound or bare skin with blue, which other chickens aren't as inclined to peck at. I would also be worried that there may be something other wrong with that hen. Chickens can be brutal, and if they sense...
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    Matted feathers under wing and smelly

    No sign of an injury at all? That was my first guess, but I'm not familiar with Orpingtons or Morans. I
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