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    What do I do with all the chicken poo?

    We use a composter, and add our vegetable waste and coffee grinds to it. With 2 pots of coffee a day we add a good amount of grinds, and the nitrogen content of the grounds helps the compost along pretty well. We never have any smell. We just use straw in the coop and clean it out every few...
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    How do I put the chickens up in thier coop while there is still daylight?

    They all go in together when it gets dark, but we have to leave for work during the week before it gets dark and we can only get the adults to go in for treats. We don't keep them in a run but a large open area. I had my dog try to help me heard them, but she's not interested in the chickens and...
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    How do I put the chickens up in thier coop while there is still daylight?

    My wife and I work graveyard, and are having a tough time getting the chickens to go into thier coop when we leave for work and it's still daylight out. We have two sets of chickens, the older ones come to me and are like pets, the younger ones we got this year all hide. If we put treats in the...
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    lost a hen today, worried about the rest of the group

    I read up on the sour crop and it looks like that was it. I'll know better now if it ever happens with the other hens.
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    lost a hen today, worried about the rest of the group

    I'll have to look sour crop up and look more into it. I wouldn't even have thought about turning her upside down if I hadn't read it. It's hard to believe all the things that can go wrong with chickens.
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    lost a hen today, worried about the rest of the group

    Oops forgot to click the notify button.
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    lost a hen today, worried about the rest of the group

    Yesterday when I put up the hens I noticed one wasn't on the roost, but sitting on the floor in the hay. She was a little lethargic looking, but I had to go to work. I looked up backyard chickens at work and saw someone said to hold them upside down and see if stuff drained out of the mouth...
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    How do you pronounce "Ameraucanas"?

    How do you pronounce "Ameraucanas"? We have one, but we can't pronounce it and don't want to look like idiots when we talk about it at black tie functions
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    Chick diarrhea

    Thanks, I think you might be right. After watching them during the weekend a saw a lot of regular poop, then there would be one like you described. After loosing a little chick a week or so after we got them has made me a little paraniod (that and reading all the stuff on this...
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    Chick diarrhea

    I've just gotten my first chicks about a month ago. I have one or two that have a nasty case of diarrhea. It's runny brown (looks like the people variety) and smells like a rank kids diaper. It's been going on for a couple of days now. I've sepperated the one I know has it, and the other must...
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