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    Input on Building Our Coop!

    I would bury the mesh wiring too about 8 inches down.
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    Input on Building Our Coop!

    If you live in a cold climate then you will need to tarp the screened section in the winter. Hens hate drafts in the winter plus the snow blows in. Make sure you don't just use screen either. A predator will go right through that. I recommend a 1/4" galvanized mesh wire fencing then you don't...
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    Help! Broken & missing feathers on back, oily feathers on neck and white poo on butt feathers

    UPDATE! All my girls grew their feathers back in the fall. I guess it was just a phase.
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    THICK yolk

    I know what you mean! I was researching what caused my eggs to be this way. It's freezing here and the eggs are getting frozen and then when they unthaw they have this hard yolk like I par boiled it. The white of the egg is completely normal. I throw those eggs away because they are weird. I...
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    Pullet or Roo??? Barred Rock Chickens

    Yep
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    Pullet or Roo??? Barred Rock Chickens

    Yep
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    Help! Broken & missing feathers on back, oily feathers on neck and white poo on butt feathers

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    Help! Broken & missing feathers on back, oily feathers on neck and white poo on butt feathers

    I don't need the rooster. His prettiness keeps me from giving him the axe. He does mate her extra. I bought some dried worms today and some hen ointment. I need to get a kennel. She is still laying. I will post pic of my coop.
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    Help! Broken & missing feathers on back, oily feathers on neck and white poo on butt feathers

    My RIR has started losing back feather in March of this year. The chickens are just turning a year so I thought she was molting. But they every time the feathers grow her back is bloody sometimes, feathers missing and some on her wings broken. I have treated the coop for mites but no other birds...
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