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    I fed him yolk with a syringe but it was to late by the time I figured it out. Was a pretty sad...

    I fed him yolk with a syringe but it was to late by the time I figured it out. Was a pretty sad day!
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    Thanks for your help! We also lost ours. It was doing so well until a toddler got ahold of...

    Thanks for your help! We also lost ours. It was doing so well until a toddler got ahold of him. We went away for a couple days and took him with. I kept him up on a shelf higher than I thought my son could reach but he put him in his water and then his cup so not sure if he was chilled or...
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    I found your post on your chick with its legs behind it from last month. Can you give me any...

    I found your post on your chick with its legs behind it from last month. Can you give me any details or pointers? What was the outcome? I have a guinea Keet that's doing the exact same thing
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    Chicken Sniffles

    I don't think there is any of the above, there just sniffling and they may be sneezing once in a while, I can't tell if it is a sneeze or not though. It isn't all of them either, I think just the younger ones.
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    Chicken Sniffles

    What does it mean if my chickens have the sniffles?
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    What do vegetarians do with unproductive laying hens?

    I get between 15 - 20 ready to lay hens to add to our coop. That way we still get the eggs we want every year and our "old girls" live out there lives happily. We just put the new birds in with the old ones and they do fine. We have a population of about 50 birds and we have a few that die...
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    My girls are starting to lay eggs, but not in the nesting boxes!!!!!!!

    I have roll out nests for the eggs and ever since I got my new litter of pullets, they have been laying in the corner rather than in the nests and I can't put eggs in since they just roll down. I don't know how to get them to lay in the them with the rest of the hens. I'm gonna block the...
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    Giving up on Free Ranging.... Baaahhhh!!!

    I have a 12 x 16 run on my coop for them to run in all summer. It's 10 ft tall chain link that we dug in to the ground 2 ft so they can't get out of the run. We don't let our girls out to wander until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon once they are finished laying in their coop. We have one...
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    The Perfect Coop

    I think that helps alot, I'm going out this morning to see what wood I have around to see how that works. Anything will be ebtter than having to do a whole clean every two weeks in winter.
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    The Perfect Coop

    I have heard of droppings boards but I'm not quite sure what they are. What are they made of?
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    The Perfect Coop

    Our coop now is insulated and heated but only with heat lamps and we don't let it get below freezing. But we also have a problem because we can't let the chickens outside in -20 to clean the coop so we have problems with amonnia if we let it get to hot and we don't have proper ventialtion. If...
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    The Perfect Coop

    I am looking to build a new coop for around 50 chickens and don't even know where to start. I live in a cold climate where it gets down to -50C. How big would I want it? I would like ideas for what I should do for heat, ventilation, flooring, nests, roosts, bedding, lighting, anything that...
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    Bloody Egg?

    Last week we found a bloody egg in the coop two days in a row but the last day there was a dead chicken laying there with a bloody rear. There was also alot of blood on the straw in the coop around and you could see where it had walked. Now this week we have found a bloody egg two days in a...
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