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    Artificial Lights v/s None During Winter for Egg Production Poll

    Ohhh, so interesting - de we know about this (tendency to slow down a lot or not too much with shrinking daylight duration) for more breeds? I'm taking notes!
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    Artificial Lights v/s None During Winter for Egg Production Poll

    I was looking into this earlier today in advance of getting chickens, so no personal experience here, just relaying an article I found useful (by a vet, which is lending it some more weight too) - https://the-chicken-chick.com/supplemental-light-in-coop-why-how/
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    Artificial light

    I know this is a bit of an older thread but really interesting information here: among those using artificial lighting, do you all do something like what Aart describes, to allow for molting? -> Aart makes it sound as if maybe the delay in molting was due to birds not being used to artificial...
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    Too much protein?

    I'm coming at this with no preconceived notion that one or the other is better, so please bear with me, just asking, not trying to argue here: the study does focus on egg production, and I was wondering if it would make sense to question that? As in, is laying more and bigger a good thing for...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Very good point. Do you think it would make any difference is using a deep litter kinda situation (meaning no dirt but maybe a bunch of organic litter - Chip Drop comes to mind when it comes to large, free quantities of the stuff)? And that arches back to something I looked up and planned on...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Would it be possible to not dig, but instead add? So you'd put the run on the floor, bottom hardware cloth being on ground surface, then you'd add floor/litter inside the run on x inches (might mean that your run would likely need some siding all around its base, so that the elevated...
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    I also didn't factor in what jxp was saying about integration :/ In any case, I have no egg to hatch but I am following along all your efforts and feeling invested - here is to hope it all goes well with the eggs that made it so far! <3
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    I mean, I wasn't laughing at Lady Lisa's eggs not making it, but the "solo chick hatch" is a bit of a funny thing - I'm rooting for this underdog for sure!! Didn't start with the best conditions but making it through! 💪
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    Arizona Chickens

    That makes sense!
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    Arizona Chickens

    Okies, I'll keep an eye out for what you may have in a few months then :) And I am not necessarily looking for lap chickens per se, but a chicken I don't have to corner to get a hold of would be great! My previous hens were not afraid of me but were not into being held and having to handle them...
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    Arizona Chickens

    My tanks are full again <3 (I need bigger tanks probably) and my one and only (for now) storm water basin has been kept full - I dug it myself so it's a bit of a slow progress, but happy to see it being useful already! We're having steady rain here since yesterday night. Feels very autumnal...
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    Arizona Chickens

    We got a good rain yesterday night, not enough to turn the streets to washes and I think it was most on the west side of town, but the soil at my place is still a bit moist this morning, so not too bad!
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    Arizona Chickens

    Wow, thank you so much for this and all the links too: so informative!! I appreciate it A LOT!! <3 Good point about the watering cups allowing them to wet their wattles, I'll do that. And same for having emergency cages on hands to get them inside - thank you, that's an easy thing to plan for...
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    Making use of a little side niche in my coop/run

    Good suggestion! I definitely planned to use a "poop board" but had not thought of making it a full tray with sand - thanks for the nudge! I'm sure that will make it all easier. Thank you everyone for suggestions about the niche too! I am not too concerned about storage (the whole adjacent shed...
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    Arizona Chickens

    That's awesome, thanks so much Emma (and for letting us all in on the FB secret code too! That's hilarious!!) Whenever I am done prepping the coop and I am ready to get chicks, I thought I'd use the heated blanket method (something like this) but is it even necessary in AZ, outside of the dead...
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