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    when to give chickens pellet food

    thanks everyone will switch to layer feed later when they get closer to laying eggs,
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    when to give chickens pellet food

    I have been raising chickens for a long time but I go 3 years getting new ones can't remember to give them reg, flock pellets instead of crumbles, not layer though yet, but the crumbles they don't seem to be eating lots of it and it just turns to powder they are 15 weeks old now I do have 3...
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    Introducing my dominant rooster back to the flock with other roosters after being isolated from an injury

    Finally all weekend since Thursday the weather got warmer snow melt and I could get them outside they did remarkably well they worked on their pecking order and did great and tonight she decided she was going to bed in coop the other 5 year old hung out with her pushed her up against the wall...
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    Introducing my dominant rooster back to the flock with other roosters after being isolated from an injury

    Update put chickens outside no rain today and snow has melted more. My 5 year old is laying eggs now without anymore problems. She was in the house for 2 weeks to recover now she's been in coop run in kennel for almost 3 weeks now. Put them out today in the yard and finally no extreme fighting...
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    SERIOUS rat problem

    Get a cat or 2 they will keep rats away we had to get another cat when our other one died. So far the rats left
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    Introducing my dominant rooster back to the flock with other roosters after being isolated from an injury

    Yes I have had chickens for 10 years now but never had to reintroduce my older chickens seems to be more challenging because she wants her pecking order back and its winter so they don't get out all the time. Today if the rain stops then will put her in crate outside then let her out and see...
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    Introducing my dominant rooster back to the flock with other roosters after being isolated from an injury

    Gives me hope one of my hens before Christmas could not walk had to bring her in the house and next day she was doing better and she laid an egg which she had not laid since summer and she is 5 years old, she is all better but could not put her back in they gained up on her so since Christmas...
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    How to integrate chicken back in after 2 weeks in the house to recover from egg bound

    Well we are about a week into integrating our once sick chicken 5 year old Americana she's all better she is in kennel in run during the day then about 3:30 in afternoon she goes back into the basement and now she is perching. The others are around her except 2 5 year olds stay in coop when it...
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    How to keep sparrows/wild birds out of run!?

    Well I have had the same problem I tried bird netting but I was out there rescuing birds caught in it so took it off. In summer they are not in there as much but winter they are. I quit feeding the birds and that cut down on how many birds I have. Now we have a cat and she's been keeping the...
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    How to integrate chicken back in after 2 weeks in the house to recover from egg bound

    She is in the kennel during the day in chicken run I did put her in cat carrier in coop but the other chickens don't like it in there so tonight they refused to go in I had to get them in one at a time so I took the cat carrier out and put her in the basement in another kennel I have where its...
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    How to integrate chicken back in after 2 weeks in the house to recover from egg bound

    How long did it take to fully put her in?
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    How to integrate chicken back in after 2 weeks in the house to recover from egg bound

    This is going to take a while today somehow she got out of the kennel in coop luckily I checked on her and I thought the others had killed her she was huddled in corner took her out she was fine I don't know how she got out so now the kennel has a lock on it to keep it from being pushed open...
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    How to integrate chicken back in after 2 weeks in the house to recover from egg bound

    And at night she is in cat carrier in the coop so she can stay warmer. Its eastern wash so its 30s and 20sat night and snow
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    How to integrate chicken back in after 2 weeks in the house to recover from egg bound

    Well been keeping her in kennel in run and somehow she got out and found her hiding and looks like they got in a fight she is ok traumatic for her. She wants her dominance back over the four new chickens older girls stayed out of it. But its 4 against one. So she is in house for an hr or so...
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    How can you tell if a chicken is well enough to sleep in the coop again?

    Its now dec 2022 had to putvmy 5 year old in house for 2 weeks she's fully recovered but when I put her back in to see and she beat up the younger ones and then all four were fighting had to break it up and pull her out. She's now in kennel in run and cat carrier at night in coop. I guess after...
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