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    Lweeklys Chicken Coop

    My husband and I purchased about 6 acres near Charlotte, North Carolina early in 2007. The property was originally the center of a much larger farm and slowly, over time, pieces of the land were sold off to the people who are now our neighbors. By the time we purchased this center property...
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    Tough chickens

    We had a pretty warm summer this year but the chickens seem to handle it ok. They'd dig in the dirt to stay cool and I made sure they had access to shade and cold water. Sometimes we'd bring out ice for the water to keep them cooler and they seemed to like that. They were also big fans of...
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    Tough chickens

    My small flock of chickens were free ranging all summer and generally stayed close to the the goat pen. At night, they liked to roost in a couple of trees inside the pen. This fall we finished up our chicken coop and put them inside for a couple of weeks so that hopefully they'd think of that...
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    Chickens and Goats ???

    I have a pygmy goat that lives in a pen with my 17 chickens. They all get along great and the chickens love to eat the goat feed that the goat drops. Goats are pretty messy eaters so she drops hay all over but the chickens love to scratch through that too. As people have mentioned, keeping...
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    What age did your roo start to crow???

    I have a flock of 17 chickens with just one rooster. He started trying to crow around 9 weeks old. I think he's a dark cornish but I'm not positive. It was always a pretty pathetic crow although he's gotten a little bit better. He's a pretty talkative guy and crows all the time but we're out...
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    Nesting boxes with or without a top

    I still don't have a coop done so my chickens free range and live in the pen with our pygmy goat. Since at least a few of them have started laying, I made a laying box out of a medium sized rubbermaid plastic box with lid. I got it on sale for $3.00 at Target and when I got it home I cut a...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    We got our first egg yesterday!
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    What breeds?

    I ordered the assorted rainbow layers package from McMurray Hatchery and had a pile of fuzzy chicks delivered on May 4th. I'm completely new to chickens so I've been trying to determine what I have now that they're about 18 weeks old but I haven't figured them out yet. I'd appreciate if anyone...
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    Hen pecked!

    I had a few minor problems with some of the hens pecking at each other and I sprayed the girls being pecked with some blue wound kote stuff to make sure they wouldn't get infected and would heal. Chickens apparently don't like the taste of it so that completely stopped the pecking problem...
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    HELP!!! fire ants killed one of my chicks

    We're covered in fire ants here too and I hate putting out poison because of the dogs and other animals. If there's a place in the yard where I need to clean out the ants but don't want to use poison, I use lots of boiling water. Boil pots of boiling water and dump it on the nest. Keep...
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    4 week old chickens dying with no warning

    Quote: I've been using pine shavings for about 3.5 weeks now and this is the first that I've had any problems. What should I be using instead? I have 25 sq ft of cage space to cover and it's bare concrete under the shavings.
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    4 week old chickens dying with no warning

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. I don't know what type of birds they are. I ordered the assorted rainbow layer pack from McMurray Hatchery. They were born on 5/1/09 so they're 4 weeks old today. I don't know their weight but they're the size of nerf footballs and so far they've been...
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    4 week old chickens dying with no warning

    I have an assortment of chicks that are all 4 weeks old. For the past 4 days I've been losing one chick per day. They don't seem to be sick and aren't showing any signs of having problems until they suddenly die. They were all vaccinated for coccidosis and mareks. Is there anything I can do...
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