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    Wet, smelly coop! Help!!

    It's straw not hay, but I see what you're saying. I technically could because we have the room, but he is so happy living with the chickens. He even has his own hutch that he has dug.
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    Wet, smelly coop! Help!!

    Can't use sand. Our rabbit lives with the chickens!
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    Wet, smelly coop! Help!!

    Advice/help needed!! Our chicken coop REAKS. It smells like a rancid poop and pee slushie. Sorry to be so descriptive. The coop is really long and narrow (25+ ft. x 6ft. x 7ft. tall), doesn't have a roof (it is our side yard, so we have arched shade cloth as the cover), and the ground is a thick...
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    Too much protein?

    For those familiar with getting percentages when making your own chicken feed..... please help! My feed consists of: 50 lbs Whole Oats 25 lbs Spring Wheat 15 lbs Black Oil Sunflower Seeds 9 lbs Flaxseed I used a calculator to determine the protein percent and it gave me 28.85 total...
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    Limping Ameraucana lays SMALL eggs!

    hi! About 7+ months ago, one of my hens, an Ameraucana (who was probably a year old at the time) started limping, and it lever went away. She wobbles when she walks, but is healthy otherwise. She can hope up about 3 feet because she roosts every night with the others in the coop. About 3 times a...
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    Lead in Water - "OK" for chickens?

    Hi there, I just bought a brass garden hose connector (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006U66B6/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1) to be exact. It specifically says it contains lead. My concern is that this hose connector will be connected to the same hose I use to fill the chicken...
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    Paint Silkie, Boy?

    Here he (or she?) is,.... I have THREE roosters (I just found out, they just started crowing!) Two are black australorps, and the third is a black silkie. I watched them crow myself, so I'm sure. This one, however, has the roo-like features way more than the confirmed black silkie rooster who I...
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