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    chickens hogging one nesting box and other issues

    You might find, if any of your birds are like mine, that they will see your ceramic eggs in each box and raise you all the ceramic eggs in one box. Granted I only have two boxes, but my Welsummer and BO will not suffer letting eggs be in separate boxes. All four of my ladies prefer to...
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    egg laying song

    Idk. Mine will do it when they see eggs, right before and after they lay eggs, or when they see another bird in the nesting boxes. My BO also made a similar sound the time my polish decided to go adventuring in the neighbors front yard one morning (and worried me half to death). Maybe they're...
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    please help this first timer understand... why are my hens not laying yet?

    It can also take up to a month for them to have a regular laying cycle. My first layer only took about a week, but my ee, the last to start laying, took longer to get a routine going.
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    Broody?

    My bo Arnold is acting the same way right now. Good to know it could take a while for her to actually go broody.
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    Roosting issue + possibly broody hen

    I gotta go to Albany to renew my dogs' licenses in the next few days anyway, so I'll have to look at what's available at home depot (we don't have a lowes). It's too bad I can't just convert our old shed; it's neither wooden or water tight.
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    Roosting issue + possibly broody hen

    I don't even know if this one will be sufficient to make it through the winter because I don't know if it's water-proof enough. We don't get snow and it doesn't get cold, but it rains 3-4 times/week around here from late October through April and I don't imagine moisture in the coop is going...
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    Irrational fear!

    They help to reduce the amount of bacteria on your hands. Alcohol does in fact kill salmonella; it poisons most bacteria that I know of, just like it poisons people in large enough quantities. It won't totally prevent an infection, but the cdc recommends the use of hand sanitizer when soap and...
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    Irrational fear!

    While I agree that over use of hand sanitizer is not beneficial (just as over use of antibiotics causes both resistant bacteria strains and can destroy your digestive system's beneficial bacteria populations), using it when appropriate, e.g. when I come in the house from handling chickens and...
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    Roosting issue + possibly broody hen

    There's my coop, complete with convenient Cookie dog (she's a border collie mix, so she's a little larger than a purebred) for scale. We were just so uninformed when we bought this. *cries* The nesting box is actually sagging so we had to prop it up. This piece of trash has only been put...
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    Roosting issue + possibly broody hen

    If I had the room I'd probably do that. Initially it looks less nice, but then ya gotta remember she's not interested in roaming when she's broody anyway. :) I don't think the water thing is probably that bad though. The bird in the video was very calm the whole time and it can't be much...
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    Roosting issue + possibly broody hen

    That's the problem with the coop. There's not room to put roosts higher (I have been struggling to think of how to do it for two months now and no dice), plus it's so small that I'm worried they'll take up bad behaviours if I keep them cooped up. Pearl (my ee) already is run off from...
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    Irrational fear!

    So salmonella is a bacterial infection. Afaik all chickens have salmonella bacteria. That's why you gotta wash your hands after handling your birds or handling anything that comes in contact with their feces. The only way to get salmonella poisoning (from your own chickens, assuming you keep...
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    Roosting issue + possibly broody hen

    There are roosts in the coop but they're level with the nesting boxes and mostly just on the floor when the droppings tray has wood shavings in. Very poorly designed and I wish I'd known better. Like, it's supposed to be big enough for four hens and that may be truth mathematically but it...
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    Roosting issue + possibly broody hen

    Just when you start to think you have a grasp on the whole bird mom schtick, they (the birds) decide they're going to start being weirdos. Well, at least, mine have. So I have 4 chooks all if whom are currently laying and are about 6 months old, iirc. Until recently, everyone except Lady...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    The fiance and I took a dozen eggs from our flock to give to his dad, Tom, the last time we went to see his parents and lemme tell you I have never seen Tom that excited. It was pretty satisfying. In other news, my buff orpington lays eggs with cloudy whites, right? The first one freaked me...
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