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    First Time Fermenting

    Thank you. I added pellets to it last night too and still little expansion at 48 hrs. Now I'm really questioning if it's the feeds I use. I'll give it another 24 hrs and see where it's at.
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    First Time Fermenting

    Last night I put some Scratch in the jar, figured I would add the pellets tonight. It hasn't really grown much in size in 24 hrs, is this normal before I add pellets? Blue mark is where it was when I first put it in last night.
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    One chicken getting picked on

    She has some feathers missing on top of her head and what looks to be little sores. Hard to tell if it is just one starting it, I always see more then one picking on her.
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    Our poor chicken had gout

    So sorry, the hard parts of having animals. I like to they they know we are looking out for their best interest if we have to choose to to say goodbye.
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    One chicken getting picked on

    The last 2 days when I have come home from work the chickens are in their outside run waiting for me to give them their scratch. I then go in the barn to gather eggs for the day and anything else needed. Both days they have pinned the same hen down and have been pecking on her head. Tonight they...
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    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Evening, my two flocks were combined about a month ago and for the very most part are getting along. Lost one to a hawk a little over a week ago, so the rest aren't currently happy with me, went from free ranging afternoon/evenings to having to stay in the run.
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    Outside run flooring question

    Mistype on my part "More damp, then went like that." that should have read "more damp then wet". I've been thinking the advice to re dig it is best. Just have to figure out what to use for that, don't have a tiller.
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    Outside run flooring question

    More damp, then went like that. I think some of it is the soil my husband added last year, that makes it slippery.
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    Outside run flooring question

    Would say it leans toward clay, but my husband did add some fresh top soil to it last year that gets extra slippery, I have shoveled much of that out. Seems to stay somewhat damp on the top, but no standing water except where the girls have dug dust bath spots. In the winter it doesn't get much...
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    Outside run flooring question

    My outside chicken runs are currently just dirt with some small stone, just what was there before I had chickens. There is currently no roof over it, did tell my husband I would like a roof over it before summer is over. In the mean time what would be a good ground cover to help control spring...
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    Dust Bath on Cement

    Sand like kids play sand? Ash from the wood burner?
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    Dust Bath on Cement

    The new chickens have been here a week today. So now I have two almost matching chicken coops with 2 separate flocks of chickens, until they can be together. Each coop has an inside run, then the coop with nest boxes and perches, both areas are inside my barn, then each one has an outside run...
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    My Girls

    Thanks, yes those are Sapphire Gems.
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    My Girls

    The new flock of 9 girls that arrived last night seem to be settling in, I did get one egg today so far. Once they have had time to get comfortable here with their new home, us and the other chickens, I'll combine the two coops into one. My current flock of 7 gets to free range whenever we are...
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    Perching & Nesting

    I checked today and they are 13" and 28", the girls in the other coop sleep on the high one. The new girls did indeed sleep on the floor all night. They did check out the nest boxes today and rearranged the straw in all 4 of them and one even laid an egg.
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