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    Ways to Improve Health?

    Flicker loo--how do you tell if chickens have worms? Also could you expand more about the fermenting you do with the feed? Sounds like birds could get drunk--lol. But seriously I make wine and as it clears there is spent yeast at bottom. Could this benefit the chickens to give them this...
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    Incubating in my bra: An experiment.

    Thank you for sharing-the sad results also. This was a great opportunity to learn.
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    Incubating in my bra: An experiment.

    Thank you Ashdoes. I did not realize about app. Responding to you from the app. How are the boosum buddies coming along?
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    Incubating in my bra: An experiment.

    lol..... me the same. For some reason cannot log into the site with my iPhone so I have to wait until the evening. Makes for a long day.
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    Incubating in my bra: An experiment.

    This is an awesome experiment. I notice the comment that eggs covered by wool and/or sweatshirt. Is there concern for enough air? In comparison to a hen--sitting on them and reducing air flow--guess it would be similar with the shirts. Keep us informed. This is an amazing experiment and...
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    Have you seen those cool old-time 'Tube Feeders' ? Well, here's a new twist on an old idea

    OK--those are the coolest feeders I have seen! I love it when someone comes up with something new--something to dress up the coop a bit--especially with winter keeping them in the coop more. Does the image have to be graphics or can it be a pic--like a .jpg?
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest Photo Submission Thread #1

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    CT Roo needs a new home

    We adopted a hen who has turned out to be a roo!! No saddle feathers, but she was a 'big girl', or so I thought. A lovely bird who needs a new home. My town does not allow roos. Does anyone have room for a nice bird? He is about 7 months old--an Easter chick.
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    CT Roo needs a home

    I adopted a hen about 4 weeks ago and she started crowing last week. We cannot have roos in our town. Does anyone have room for a roo in CT?
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    How do you get rid of rats? Do they kill chickens or just the babies?

    I have read that peppermint plants planted around can run critters away. Has anyone else tried this? Could the plan be harmful to the chickens?
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    What's Your Chickens names and Why are they named that?

    I love all the times and reasons for the names. It further proves only chicken people can understand that chickens are 'people' too! I have: Trip--last of Barred Rocks triplets Blackey--Black sex link Oozy--A Delaware--named by a friend called the same because of his 'big gun' arms---irony...
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    Comment by 'litl red hen' in article 'A Guide To Understanding The Chicken Pecking Order'

    This is a great article. We introduced new additions to the flock and every example provided--they demonstrated! I knew it was a pecking order ritual. We also kept newbies in coop with a screen separator so all could visit and get to know each other for about two weeks. Transition together was...
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    Comment by 'litl red hen' in item 'Ancona'

    Oh no....I think this is what I picked up up at Tractor Supply this spring--3 Anconas (red) and 3 red sex link. The are 8 weeks old, but very skittish. I try to pick them up often thinking I get them 'calm' by 'mothering' them a bit. I am not sure this will work. I have 9 other birds and they...
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    Coop Builders - What would you have changed or done differently?

    We had a very nice coop we quickly outgrew as a result of chicken math. First coop was two 4x8 sheets of plywood rectangular. Peak roof with roosts high, some a bit over nesting boxes but then we covered boxes. Original design was 2.5 ft off the ground--on stilts, so to speak. Then we added...
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    Feather picking

    Quote: I am having a problem also. I have 11 standards, in a coop that had a renovation in the summer for a total of 48 sq feet. I have 4 3year olds and 7 that were a day old May 3. Of the newbys, 3 are Buckeyes. One of the Buckeyes is pulling/plucking feathers of the other two Buckeyes...
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