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    Our Coop

    Thank you. My flock is a mellow bunch, I have 7 8week old chicks in the coop with them. Flock has accepted them, older hens are teaching them the pecking order when it comes to food. I put them out in there plastic brooder so the hens could smell them for a week or so, then I let them out.
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    Our Coop

    Our coop enclosure is a little different. My brother in law built a 12 by 12 enclosure for our chickens. It is inside a 3 side metal shed. I say the top ceiling rafters are 12 or more high feet high. Only the south side of the enclosure is exposed. South allows light not much drafts. If...
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    Baby silkie cross Plymouth Rock sick

    Is she eating and drinking? I would give her some electrolytes, like save a chick or diluted Gatorade Mashed up scrambles eggs may help. Waiting game at best.
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    Very Broody Cochin

    She is getting up, and when I go out I will gently pick her up and set her on the ground were she will go eat, drink, and once took a quick dust bath. She has been sitting on eggs for over a month. I have a friend who is a veteran chicken person come and bring me some fertile eggs, they should...
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    Feed Storage for flock

    I use a 5 gallon metal trash can that I put inside a 13 gallon trash can on wheels. This has worked out well. Last you I found out that mice can chew through a plastic trash can, a friend of mind told me about the metal can. I have not had a problem since.
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    Small holes in dirt?

    I have similar holes this time of year near my coop. It is usually mice or vols (of the mole family) I put DE down the hole and out popped a mice and it was a treat for one of my chickens with everyone else running after her. I have also put DE down the holes with success.
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    Very Broody Cochin

    I have a very broody cochin named brown gravy(currently mama gravy :) ). We have called her Houdini as she keeps adding eggs to her pile and we don't know who she is doing it. I am thinking about moving her to a crate filled with straw, food water near by. I would have the door open for her...
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    First time experiencing chicken math

    I have 7 chicks that are 7 weeks old/
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    Topic of the Week - When eggs go wrong

    What kind of multi vitamin do you use? Do you crush it up in the food, or put it with the oyster shell?
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    Topic of the Week - Moving chicks out of the brooder and into the coop

    Got 7 chicks in September. I used an ecoglow as their heat source. Chicks loved the ecoglow and would come out to eat, play and go back under when needed. I also put in and ostrich feather duster. Took them a bit to figure out what it was but when they did, if was funny. 7 little chicks...
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    First time experiencing chicken math

    Been doin the chicken math for my current group of chickens 1 rooster = -2 He is a feather footed silkie(he is small in size, but is such a gentlemen to his girls and even the baby chicks) 7 7 week old pullets = 0 not laying of course not eating much 6 hens 3 are molting = as they are not...
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    Moved 9 1/2 week chicks to coop and run.

    They are 12 weeks old now. I will tell you they are smart little chickens.. I blocked off the nesting box in the coop, and was rather pleased with myself that I am teaching them that nesting box is not the nightly gathering place to form chickie pyramid. I decided to check on them after 3...
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    Moved 9 1/2 week chicks to coop and run.

    I am happy to report that all of my chicks are putting themselves to bed on a regular basis now. My golden laced wynadotte is not a hen but a rooster least the name Crisco does not have to be changed. Found that out this morning when it tried out it's cock-a-doddle-do. It will be finding a...
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    Moved 9 1/2 week chicks to coop and run.

    I checked this evening, 3 of the 4 chicks put themselves to bed this evening yeah!!! Blocked off the nesting box, and they are sleeping together on the floor on the coop. They are such a bonded little group. Last night only 2 put themselves to bed and the other 2 were paired off on the...
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    Moved 9 1/2 week chicks to coop and run.

    OK, this evening I "tried" rounding up the chickens to walk up the ladder to the coop. Ha, that was an exercise that should have been captured on video, chickens probably thought I was absolutely bonkers. I got one to go up the ladder, the others I had to "pick up" and put them in. Instead on...
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