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    Need advice on frostbite and nipple waterers.

    I'm about an hour north Springfield and an hour east of Kansas.
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    Need advice on frostbite and nipple waterers.

    Is there anything I can do for him right now? I had someone tell me to use a crock pot instead, so the water would be actually warm, but wet is wet, right? I could go buy a different waterer, one like this...would he be less likely to get wet with it?
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    Need advice on frostbite and nipple waterers.

    Need advice on frostbite and nipple waterers. How hard or easy is it to get the chickens to change to them? My poor new boy has frostbite. I think he had a tiny bit when we got him a few days ago, but it's gotten much worse. I've always used a heated dog bowl in winter, but my girls don't have...
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    Plan needed for integrating grown rooster and new chicks with older hens

    Interesting thought... she's tried to give me a few before, but I wasn't interested because I already had 7 and was getting like 5 eggs a day and didn't want more. She had more turn out to be roos than she expected. I'm not sure how many hens she has now.
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    Plan needed for integrating grown rooster and new chicks with older hens

    This is a little complex, but I'll try to make sense. I had 7 hens, 3 about age 2 1/2 and 4 about a year younger. This Thanksgiving, sadly, something got in the run and killed two of my older hens and one of the young ones. The survivors are doing well and get along. I plan on getting 4...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I think she's moulting... at least her tail is getting awfully bare. It's hard to tell really, what's falling out and what's been pulled out. Fingers crossed. She's also stopped laying, but that's worrisome, a she's standing like a penguin again... but that started today, so maybe it's from...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Hey all. I'm never catching up. Meanie is now regularly laying on the darn floor. As head hen she's failing miserably in teaching the Red Squad good laying manners. I added some depth to their boxes today, maybe that'll help. Honestly, 4 boxes for 3 laying hens and Eenie is the only one polite...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    In 2020, I spent 10 days in the hospital, 6 in ICU, respiratory and renal failure. Yeah...WAY worse than the flu. Missed 7 weeks of work and wasn't back to normal for nearly a year. The one thing that didn't happen was loss of taste and smell. But now, chickens. I've missed soooo much. You...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Gosh, I'd think that would sting! She gets pretty raw there, poor thing.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Eve Even if the others are picking at her bare spots?
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I guess we'll have to resort to the saddle. The poor thing. Her wings seem to get the worst of it. We haven't had a rooster since December! But she didn't moult last year at all. I keep praying she does this year.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Greetings all. I have good news and bad news today. Good news first:That brown egg is Sheba's! She laid in the nest for the first time since we moved them! Yay! Bad news is also Sheba. Maybe she's finally moulting, but she just always looks so bad. Today I caught Meanie pecking at her wings...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Hey all! Take 4 days off and miss 40 pages of posts! I'll catch up later. Hope all has been well. The chickens survived. The door remains operational. Sheba flatly refuses to lay in the nests! She's making me nuts. I mean, what's wrong with them? Maybe they need to be deeper? I could add...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    We watch that show soooo much....lol
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I pretty much made the hen house! He'd agree...he's actually not all that handy. I called a plumber to hook up our dishwasher! :lau Still a keeper though. :D
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