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    Question about using sand for the floor of the run

    Hi, we are thinking of putting sand down in the main run, as we get tons of rain here and even though we dug 2 foot down, put in a drainage(small stones) wire mash and then soil / grass matting it still gets a bit water logged, so we thought about sand. our children play sand is so exspensive...
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    Chicken tractor newb question

    one of my hens 20 weeks she is now, gest on the bottom run and then turns around, tried putting food up it, not worked the others come out to eat it. I got into a bad habbit and picked her up and put her in, she is so funny now she waits at the bottom looks and clucks at me as if to say come on...
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    My Pvc Chicken Coop Project

    Amazing, wish I had that much room:)
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    Ouch!

    we have a chicken that keeps doing that, but she is double the size to the bantums, never stops eating but up till last wednesday and there was only 2 yolks but I came apon her last big egg on sat and gave it to my 6 year old newphew to take home and he rang me up to say that it had 3 yolks. how...
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    Mom's Day grass for the chickens--- updated

    Hi, many thanks for showing us, I,m not surpaised, we only have 4 chickens and we have them in a 12sq run in 2 weeks every bit of grass was gone, so we made a extra run to go betwen the veg runs (11ft by 2ft long) and it takes them 2 days to mower each run,we have 6 runs). we have now divided...
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    What if my coop is small?

    hi, we dont feed or leave water for ours at night. l do put a bit in their to get them to go to bed, our co-op is not big enough as we have 2 nesting boxes and 2 small perch,s close together and all 4 chickens sit on one perch very close together. cosy. we are also new weve had ours for 2 months...
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    Coop is FINALLY finished!!!! Pullets arrive tomorrow!!!!!!!!

    lovely set up, good luck with your new family members
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    Can you use pressure treated wood on coops

    I do hope so, we have just used old wooden patio plank as posts, to make a 10ft sq run for our bantums.
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    boiled eggs

    cheers Lisa, thanks for your help, will give it go many thanks
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    boiled eggs

    h everybody, sorry not sure where to put this question? when I hard boil mynewly layed eggs, I cant peel them, there seems to be an outer egg white bit that sticks to the shell? Does anyone else have that problem? is it to do with what i,m feeding them? any suggestions greatly rececived
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    how many chickens and run questions

    Hi sorry cant help about how many birds?, but I do have sand in my run, we dug down by foot put lots of stone and then mesh to stop the foxes and rats and then covered with soil and grass but you can imagin what they did with the grass it took 4 weeks and it was gone, so we put down wood chip...
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    compost bin

    hi many thanks for your help.L,ll give it a go for the compost bin as to the answer to hemp in the uk is a type of white sawdust that is used in horses stable it is very absorbent ( much easier and take seconds to clean out) and not a green plant that some of you are thinking of. cheers for...
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    compost bin

    We have a small garden, only had 4 chickens for one month and all the poo, straw, hemp and veg peelings etc are filling up the compost bin quickly, but it has a high amornia smell , what can i do about this? as soon our the weather will gets warm and I dont want complaints from the neighbours...
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    cleaning coop and run

    hi, We have had our 4 chickens for one month now and the last 2 weeks have had to stay in the run due to building work going on. L,m cleaning the coop every day by removing the poo from the top of hemp and adding a new layer of hemp everyday and at night I,m cleaning the poo from the run, as it...
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    Has anyone used chicken wire for their run??

    We used 1/2 inch mesh which is very tuff for foxes to bite though, it has worked so far the fox living in the garden next door has not got though it
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