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    Hen Lays eggs with no shells!

    This just happened to us yesterday. We were letting them free range in the yard, and one of my hens who stopped laying for a few months pooped out a runny egg yolk, and the other hens ran up and ate it. She was just walking around the grass and it came out like a poop. Not sure what to...
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    Rooster defected

    Hi- quick story... we lost 2 chickens this weekend to 3 red foxes. This left one female who just started laying eggs, and her brother, our rooster. (We have 9 babies in the garage at 9 weeks old almost ready to integrate...) Anyway... yesterday our Roo went to the neighbors and flirted with...
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    Advice needed -dwindling flock

    Just an update. They're all living in harmony. Ginger, the girl I had first, has taken on the skittish personalities of the new friends. I let them out to free range today, and Ginger gave them all a tour of the yard. They went back happily into the coop at sunset. Feeling good that they've...
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    Advice needed -dwindling flock

    OK- it's 3 pm and here's the update. After a few hours, they seemed to have settled in. No serious damage, and everyone is behaving. My original girl, Ginger, is co-existing with the roo and the 2 new girls. Thanks for all of your advice. I knew that if we had more chickens, the process...
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    Advice needed -dwindling flock

    Well here's the early morning update. We brought two hens and a rooster to our house and slipped them in the coop last night. Oh my- the rooster started crowing at 2 am. Oh boy.... So this morning when we let the birds out, our bird Ginger is picking on the girls. The rooster is dancing for...
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    Mites!!

    Are there less mites and lice in the winter?
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    Advice needed -dwindling flock

    Hi All, I am in need of a little advice. We got 5 chickens this fall, and one by one, we've lost them to predators (bobcat and hawk). We are down to one Rhode Island Red hen who is a little over a year old. I live in NH, and I worry that she's lonely, doesn't have body heat from other girls...
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    -20F temps tonight. Should I be worried?

    OK - quick update. The humidity is leveling out at 56%. Temps 24 in coop, 3 degrees warmer than the outside. Flaps worked!
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    -20F temps tonight. Should I be worried?

    Wow- such great info. Do all or most of you keep the water outside the coop? We added 2 hinge down ventilation flaps today. We'll see how that affects the humidity.
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    -20F temps tonight. Should I be worried?

    Well my friends, they survived the night! When I woke up this morning, it was -8 outside and -2 in the coop. I brought out fresh water because we turned the heated water off to avoid creating more moisture than necessary. The humidity level got up to 80%, so we're going to add more...
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    -20F temps tonight. Should I be worried?

    I've read through a few existing threads, but I felt compelled to ask my questions... I'm in Southern NH, and we've had some cold temps over the last few nights. tonight it's going down to -20. We have a plywood coop. We have 2 vents near the top of the roof. 3 birds on a round pole roost...
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    Hi from NH!

    Hi All, We're very excited to have found this website. We got 5 chickens about 3 months ago, and we just love our little girls. Unfortunatley we lost 2 to a local bobcat over the past few weeks. We've upped our security, and we now have 3 left - 2 plymouth rocks and a rhode island red. We've...
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