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    Fairly urgent, please help

    How big is the space you have for them? If you tend to free-range them and not have them confined to the coop the entire day, you can go smaller on the coop size. We decided to go smaller on our coop for our 18 chickens because our chickens only sleep in the coop. We live in California so we...
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    Our big coop

    just remeasured since I was going off another measurement and it was actually 10 by 6.5 which I figure is still somewhat short. The man I guess decided to extend it and didn't follow his original plans. Do you think it will be okay if we just use it for our current hens? Our babies have their...
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    Our big coop

    okay that is really good to know. That was our first model of coop. It measures about 8.5 feet long and 6 feet wide
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    Our big coop

    our birds are free-range, there is a grass field in front of the coop. It is vent really good actually, there are vents across the top. We have a temp recorder inside and it is about 70 inside when 100 plus outside. Our girls dont really go into it unless it is nighttime and I was thinking about...
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    Is my chicken sick or just broody?

    I agree with what is said. We had to force both our orpington and our silkie from being broody. It takes us constantly pushing them out of the box, which for our orpington, well she is never happy about that and likes to puff up and complain. After two weeks of us doing that and removing all the...
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    Is my chicken sick or just broody?

    Ours is doing the same thing out of the blue. We removed her and all the eggs and she eventually just gave us being broody and left the nesting boxes. It was the first time we saw her so broody and she doesnt even lay anymore so we thought she was just going through withdraws. I am swinging more...
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    Our big coop

    We are in the process of re-designing our coop. We have 20 adult chickens with 15 new babies. Our coop, at first was huge, but now is fitting the family just right. It is still large enough that they definitely have all the space they need to sleep and not be near each other if they didn't want...
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    What breed am I?

    Yeah a very bad wound to the back of her head which is one of the reasons why we got her. Definitely not fowl pox, as we had them in one before. I am waiting for the wound to heal up more as by the time we got her it was already scabbing over. Interesting though. Any ideas what one of the breeds...
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    Which of these chicken coops would work the best?

    I agree. I had one of those and I literally just ripped the roof right off last week. The door fell off and it is this fake wood sort of vibe which meant that the materials where cheap but we paid the buck. Now, we just use it as a sick hospital. The coop said it could hold 5 but in reality 3...
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    Straw or dirt for my fenced run?

    I would say either dirt or sand. We did sand in ours and will do sand in our next one. You could always do dirt than add in a sort of fodder system so they have those fresh greens. I would skip the straw because straw isnt the best for them to eat and it also collects poop and eats nasty when it...
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    What breed am I?

    Got this gal 2 weeks ago. She has some big feet though, unlike any of our previous chickens. I believe she isnt laying anymore, so I can tell you an egg color.
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    Marek's or something more?

    I got this chicken today. They didnt want it and I see why. The chickens has not: eaten for several days thus causing major weight loss been able to walk (toes curl and unable to support itself) had interest in food However the chicken has been drinking water constantly has been very...
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    Mypetchicken? Worth buying? Quality show stock?

    A few blue moons ago, we started our backyard chicken experience using mypetchicken. We had no idea how to raise chickens and mypetchicken has such a low shipping amount, the first batch we got was only 5, that we decided with them. Now, we have ordered several hundred from them and other...
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