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    How do you keep your water from freezing?

    Now I am freaking out! My daughter is on the way over to unplug it!
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    How do you keep your water from freezing?

    I have a 5 gallon bucket with the nipples on the side. Sunday morning it got down to about 27 here in Upstate South Carolina and the water had a thin layer of ice on top which wasn't too bad but I checked the nipples and they were frozen. So I went to Walmart and got an aquarium submersible...
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    oyster shell for a new layer

    Thanks everyone!
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    oyster shell for a new layer

    Background: I have 7 chickens that are 6 1/2 months old. I have one girl so far that is laying. I feed them Starter Grower from Purina. The other 6 girls aren't laying yet. I have understood I shouldn't feed them a layer feed until they are all laying because giving them extra calcium...
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    Trimming polish poof question

    Thank you, I found a video too and it looks like they just trimmed the soft stuff too. I am so nervous about it lol.
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    Trimming polish poof question

    Hi.. So my Polish hen's poof is keeping her from being able to see much and I wanted to trim it around her eyes to help her. Does it matter how short I trim? I don't want to cut too short and it bleed or anything.
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    Lewlew's coop build

    Lol yes they are. I didn't have any small pieces of wood and so we had saved all the pieces of scrap etc when we had our front house door replaced. So I was looking in the pile of all that door stuff and saw that and figured it would work. And yeah I need to find a few more bricks or something...
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    Lewlew's coop build

    I finally got finished with the coop (well I still want to add some red shutters around the window for a little splash of color) :D
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    Question about my run

    Thanks. Every tree in my yard is a sweet gum tree with the exception of two that are out by the road. But all in my back yard are the sweet gum trees. I absolutely hate them... the balls take FOREVER to compost and if you burn them, they just turn into smaller balls. I kid you not, I have...
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    Question about my run

    I have a quick question hopefully it will be an easy answer! My coop in almost completed (still have a few cosmetic things to do). But the Run is 18 x 8 and we have 7 girls. They are 7 weeks old. They have been in the coop for about 1 1/2 weeks and just this week they have been allowed in...
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    Ants in the run

    Good Morning. I am almost finished with my coop and I will be building the run this week. I notice however, on the ground were my run will be, were holes in the ground, about the size of a pencil eraser. And there were ants going in and out of the holes. These aren't fire ants, at least I...
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    Lewlew's coop build

    I've been working on the coop more. I was able to get the poop board built and the roosts done. Now I just need to get the pop door finished and paint! Here are a couple of pics of the Roosts and poop board.
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    chicks show no interest in treats

    Thanks everyone! I will keep trying :)
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    chicks show no interest in treats

    LOL thats funny, cause when I have the treats in my hand they come running and look at it. I get all excited cause I think they are going to take it, and then they just stare at it:lau
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    The coop is complete, lots of trial and error

    very cute! I like the idea of the swing, I want to put one in the run for mine! (as soon as I finish the dang coop:D)
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