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    Poopy eggs, dirty hens, and loose stools

    Well, when I built the coop that had a perch about 10" off the ground. I took it out because they're weren't using it and a few months later built them a ramp and elevated place to sleep and perch. The continued sleeping on the ground in a corner of the coop, up underneath a 3'x4' old dog coop...
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    Poopy eggs, dirty hens, and loose stools

    Birds are on concrete...so aside from scooping what else do any of your recommend for cleaning? Sanitizing with what, if at all? Sort of tough to do that in winter weather.
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    Poopy eggs, dirty hens, and loose stools

    Birds are on concrete...so aside from scooping what else do any of your recommend for cleaning? Sanitizing with what, if at all? Sort of tough to do that in winter weather.
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    Poopy eggs, dirty hens, and loose stools

    Could have been that rooster...that girl was my worst as far as having a bare back from him. We've been keeping the coop cleaned out...but I will admit it's worse this time since my surgery, but still it's been 3 weeks since the last cleaning. We usually clean out one a month to a month and...
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    Poopy eggs, dirty hens, and loose stools

    We're new to this...and all WAS going well for a while. Now we're getting a lot of poopy eggs, some of the hens butts aren't so fluffy, and getting some loose stools...as well as 14 hens getting their backs ruffed up by a large Brahma rooster...he's got their backs bare a tad...a few are...
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    Washing eggs: Water temperature and egg temperature.

    Doesn't it matter what the temp of the egg is with to start though? For example, an egg that's nearly frozen, say 34 degrees. Obviously, it makes more sense to let eggs warm up to room temperature. Some say use warm water, some say cold. Our eggs aren't really dirty at all actually. I'd...
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    Washing eggs: Water temperature and egg temperature.

    I probably should have did a search on this, but I'm pressed for time before I leave this computer behind for the night. We like to leave our eggs on the counter. We also refrigerate some. The question I have is: What temperature water to wash our eggs in if we decide to wash them? I think...
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    Spring Chicks!

    Let me guess...you ordered from Murray McMurray and Hoover's?
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    If You Could Only Have 6 Chickens...

    We chose... 2 Buff Orpingtons 3 Buff Brahma (one rooster) 2 Rhode Island Red 2 White Leghorns 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes 2 Black Jersey Giants 2 Black Australorps 2 Barred Rocks Of those, if I could only choose six ... considering our environment ... friendliness ... hands down Brahma's and...
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    Multiple breed (4+) chicken keepers...Housing designs for hens & roosters

    Some good posts and tips all worthy of consideration as I make plans to move forward. Moving forward I think I will be better served by obtaining a few more breeds to see which ones I like the best. I currently have 2 hens of 8 breeds, hardly a start. However, before buying too many more of...
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    Multiple breed (4+) chicken keepers...Housing designs for hens & roosters

    I currently have a mixed flock of 15 hens and 1 rooster. We will always keep a small mixed flock … maybe even just let all the hens run together until we need more birds. We currently have... 1 Brahma rooster 1 Brahma hen (culled one due to vent gleet) 2 Buff Orpington 2 Australorp 2 Golden...
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    Multiple breed (4+) chicken keepers...Housing designs for hens & roosters

    I am wanting to keep several breeds on our place. We may want to keep as few as 4 breeds and probably no more than 7-10 breeds. Probably as few as 4 birds per breed or as high as 10 birds, not counting roosters. How many roosters should we keep for each breed? I obviously will be doing some...
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    Best foods for chicks besides the basic starter feed

    I love it when people start adding rules to nature. LOL! I'm a newbie you might say only having chickens for the first time in my life and they are 7+ months old. Sure, we fed medicated chick feed to our birds … because we wanted to be successful our first go around. However, I have no...
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    Keeping water from freezing in the winter

    All this talk about how to keep water from freezing … via many methods … some work … some don't … most fail at some point … all this makes it easier to see why some people decide to just go ahead and heat their entire chicken house … even just to the point of not freezing … 33*F+. I am...
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    Transitioning birds to the flock.

    We currently have 15 laying hens that we received last June 2018 and they are all laying well. We have a plan to increase our coop and run size come early spring as soon as things thaw out. We are wanting to get at least 10 more baby chicks to raise and possibly another 15-20. We'd like to...
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