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    Official BYC Poll: Are Your Chickens Really Ready for the New Year?

    The same as every year around this time, how do I keep enough greens in the garden that they still have something te eat when winter arrives... I had so much still growing, didn´t do much fall cleaning , but after a month of freezing everything is pretty much pulp now... even the kale and the...
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    Two properties - would it be too stressful to move chickens back and forth?

    I did this when we were moving, it took us 8 months before our new place was good enough to live in. We stayed at the new place 3 weeks and then returned to the old place for a week... I had the same coop at both places, I just had 2 chickens, Whitey was totally fine, she felt safe wherever she...
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    Is this just molting?

    Could be that she' s not feeling well ( maybe because of illness, time will tell) and is in energy- safe modus, she doesn' t want to have to fight with the pullets, and maybe she' s a bit cold, but fine in the nesting box. The fact that she wants to eat and drink is great, you could try giving...
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    Vocalizing when laying

    Hi, a while back there was this thread about chickens vocalizing while laying: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-crying-while-laying-egg.1650004/ :) maybe it helps?
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    how far is to far to drive to obtain a bird

    It also depends on the weather, in summer the chickens will overheat.
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    Hard Molting Chicken is walking very weird...

    You can also try vitamin E with the b_ complex, I had something like this about 2 months ago, she´s all better now. Here´s the link to it with video https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-not-able-to-sit-down-sinks-down-to-one-side.1677877/
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    Hen not able to sit down, sinks down to one side

    Just an update for anyone who has similar issues in the future; Mona is completely her old self, still molting but walking normal again.
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    Hen not able to sit down, sinks down to one side

    Thank you for the help! I think they both are feeling better, their apetites are back, and today they spent a view hours foraging and laying in the sun, Mona is still sometimes sinking down, but always wenn she' s trying to a oid touching something, so that could be the molt... I still give her...
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    Hen not able to sit down, sinks down to one side

    Yes they are! Mine like pasta too, ( so much that I have to beg my hb not to give to much), and if they feel wel they like fisch, but now they don't... Today is a bit colder, and I think it's not good for Mona' s recovery, she's not better compared to yesterday, but not worse eather.. and Lisa...
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    What would be a good solution to keep predators from climbing on top of this enclosure?

    I had a run with translucent white roofing, and in winter it' s great because it warms up the run, in summer it is hot but I put shadecloth on top of the roofing and that makes a big difference, and plants in you run also make a big difference...
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    Hen not able to sit down, sinks down to one side

    Sorry forgot this... They are sold here as greeneggers, I think their mum is a crested cream legbar, because of their crest and it had to be a blue egg- layer, and their dad is of a brown- egg laying breed, don' t know wich... Today Mona is much beter, yesterday they stayed in their run, it was...
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    Hen not able to sit down, sinks down to one side

    Yes I worry too much, and at the moment that I say, don' t worry so much, the' re fine, this happens... So maybe worrying helps .. Yes I have only those 2, I had 3 but my Sussex Hen died in June of reproductive issues. I only can have 2 or 3 chickens because our families live a 7 hour drive...
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