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    Extreme heat! Two chickens dead! Trying to save the others! HELP!

    Oh, me again. I did go ahead and prepare for tomorrow setting up a mister to run all day from a neighbor. And I'm freezing some liters of water to put around. I hate it that I have to be away all day and no one can check on them. Sigh, It's hard because I feel like they are pets and not...
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    Extreme heat! Two chickens dead! Trying to save the others! HELP!

    I am so sad. I left for work this morning. Came home late tonight and one of my larger Black Australops was dead. I had 4. I didn't probably put enough water in their large and partially shady run. They had their regular water and one other bowl of water, but it had dried up (or they had tipped...
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    How many eggs is unhealthy?

    My grandfather often ate 6 - 8 eggs per day as an adult and lived to be 85 years old. They had their own chickens in Nashville. What probably is more of an issue is the bacon or cheap margarine! Getting a sunburn's probably worse than eating eggs, especially natural chickens.
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    Chickens not going inside

    See if you can remove or obstruct (or make it no fun to roost on like dangle a towel down from above or something) whatever it is they're roosting on outside the door. If the only roost available is inside, they'll go inside. Mine did this and I lowered their roosts outside to just 2 -3 feet...
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    chicken won't eat worms

    Mine hate worms. But they love spiders.
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