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    Comment by 'HNDYMN' in article 'Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors'

    P.S. I also really like the bay window brooder. How much fun.
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    Comment by 'HNDYMN' in article 'Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors'

    I agree that exposure to the rest to the flock and the older chickens has wonderful educational benefits along with the whole integration process. I have a very small chicken coop for a brooder with its own run underneath. Its inside the big run. The new chicks and chickens are next to each...
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    Deep litter question!

    Coffee Chaff, first I've heard of it. Right off the top sounds like a way interesting idea.
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    Deep litter question!

    We have a 4 foot wide by 8 foot long by 6 foot high coop with a plastic hard floor. Ventilation is super important so we have three 18 x 20 inch windows. 1 on the end and two on the sides. Also have a walk-in person door which we occasionally leave open during the summer "days". We use...
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    Help with integrating pullets into flock

    When one bird is picking on the others. Separate it out with a barrier like a piece of cardboard. So that it can hear but not see the other birds. Try it for a full day then return it to the flock. If the bad behavior does not become less. Do it again for two days. Usually this works...
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    Roost bar Rumble

    Nice that you have the two sperate coops. However, in the overall the best outcome is they learn to get along. New birds are not immediately accepted into the flock. I fence off a section on the run, so they can see each other but not fight. After they get used to the other birds being...
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    Chickens won’t roost

    How is the perch/roost? Is it a good size for their feet? Younger smaller birds will appreciate a slightly smaller roost.
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    Won’t Go in Coop at Night

    Without an older hen to show them what they are supposed to do. You will have to train them. At dusk when it's time to go into the coop. Pick them up and place them one by one inside the coop through the pop door. If they run back out before you get them all in. Close the pop door and put...
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    Installing Chicken Wire - OR - Take it back??

    Only way I know to get chicken wire tight-ish is to be able to tack it on all four sides. That we you can pull it this way and that as you tack it. I ran chicken wire around the run with posts 8 feet apart. Then I stretched 4 foot high 2 x 3 green pvc coated welded wire over it. Looks good...
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