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    Is it safe to use lime in the chicken coop?

    Let me weigh in on this a bit. If your concerned about lime in the least, just use stall dry. I have used both with the same results, each are satisfactory. If I use stall dry, I still use a stand alone DE as well with lime. After you dust your coop with your choice of product then hang a couple...
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    Do Armadillos kill poultry or eat poultry eggs?

    Thanx for the post. I just fed my chicks their scratch and on my way out an armadillo was running away from my hen house. This post helped a lot.
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    M I Crooked Letter Crooked Letter...ahh, nevermind....Mississippi

    Not at all. You just set and forget. I found now that it is best to fill some 2 litter plastic bottles with water and freeze them. Fill you fermenting jar with your feed and water, then put the jar in a cooler and set one of the frozen 2 litter in the cooler with the jar and put the lid on the...
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    M I Crooked Letter Crooked Letter...ahh, nevermind....Mississippi

    Yes, there are two that I found. After swiming through them for about a couple hours I decided to ask on the Mississippi thread to see if anyone in our area has ever messed with it. More or less just making conversation. But the chickens love it. I do it as more a snack then I do as their main...
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    M I Crooked Letter Crooked Letter...ahh, nevermind....Mississippi

    ooops.
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    M I Crooked Letter Crooked Letter...ahh, nevermind....Mississippi

    Any of you Mississippi folk messed around with fermenting your chicken feed? I ask because I have recently started doing it and I have a question. Mine is about a week and a half old, has a bit of an alcohol/ sour dough smell to it. Basically if I use say a cup of the fermented feed, I return a...
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    Scabies Mites

    I have them too, having nothing to do with my chickens. I found this article trying to figure out if I can transmit scabies to my chickens. Here is my question: Did you guys clean your linens first and then use the prescription cream or did you use your cream then clean the linens? I am going to...
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    clipping chicken's wings

    Thats good to know, thanx.
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    M I Crooked Letter Crooked Letter...ahh, nevermind....Mississippi

    Vancleave, MS here<<<<<<<<
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    Wisconsin Rapids on the map?

    I used to live in Rapids, just curious if they ended up going through with this ordinance?
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    Distancing a 150 watt Infrared Heat Lamp

    Have you considered using sand in your coop for the floor, such as playground sand found at Lowe's? You can add a little bit of water to it in the day time during the summer, that will help cool down the coop a bit. That is what I have read anyway, have not actually done it myself. I don't know...
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    Distancing a 150 watt Infrared Heat Lamp

    I decided to stay with my 150 Watt and not the 250. Experimenting with the 250, temps were above 100 degrees. The chicks arrived today, way ahead of schedule and with the 150 they are sitting at about 90 degrees though the ambient in the room is about 78 degrees. Tonight will get down to 68...
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    Distancing a 150 watt Infrared Heat Lamp

    Thank you for your reply. I was asking because my thermometer was giving me really high temp readings and I could not understand why and figured it had to be the distance I was keeping it. Well, not the case. My thermometer is trash as it turns out. I went ahead and bought a 250 Watt red bulb...
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    Sand in brooder

    Hmmm, not a bad idea. Thanx!!
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    New member from vancleave Mississippi!!!!!

    I'm in Vancleave as well. Bought my coop from the guy that builds them on 57.
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