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    how to build a coop for $350 or less?

    Originally, I thought we'd be able to build our coop for around that much...almost a $800 later we now have a beautiful coop. If you have someone that is extremely handy and has materials already available you should have no problem constructing the coop for less then $350. If you really want...
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest 3/31/14 - picture by luvameracauna

    "Worm!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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    Ended Coop Page Contest #4 - Win a $20 BYC Store Gift Certificate!

    Thanks for the votes everyone! So excited :)
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    Injured wing - any suggestions on how I should treat this hen?

    Thanks for your input. She grew up with the other chickens so she is part of the flock. I am guessing that it looks brown and slimy from the ointment. Since she is happy sleeping in the coop tonight I was thinking I would go pull her out first thing in the morning and clean it again. So far the...
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    Chicken pecked like crazy!! Bleeding

    I am sorry to hear that :( I hope she makes it. It sounds like you did the right thing. If you have a vet I would call...the vet might be able to give you some pain meds for her just to help her along so she doesn't suffer.
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    Injured wing - any suggestions on how I should treat this hen?

    Unfortunately, I went out side today to bring my girls some left overs this afternoon and I found my silkie hen bleeding wither her feathers ripped out of her wings. I will post pictures below. This morning she was fine, I let my hens out of their coop into their pen. The pen is completely...
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    Daily Routine

    How do you like the river sand as bedding?
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    Daily Routine

    Morning: Wake up, let the girls out into the pen or backyard depending on the weather. On wet, rainy cold days the girls prefer to stay in. It also helps me keep my silkie a little dryer so she does not become soaking wet in the winter. Check water and food levels. I have a heated water out...
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    Ended Coop Page Contest #4 - Win a $20 BYC Store Gift Certificate!

    This is my coop: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-coop-est-2013
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    Ended Coop Page Contest #4 - Win a $20 BYC Store Gift Certificate!

    I posted my coop this past November? Will it automatically Be entered into the contest?
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    10 month old broody silkie hen. Do I have to do anything??

    Yeah she is sitting on everyone else's eggs. Although I have more then one nesting box all my ladies tend to lay on the same side. I have been going out a couple times a day and forcing her out. She hangs for a little while and then wonders back in.
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    White Easter Egger?

    This is my white eater egger Georgia. Any thoughts on what she could be mixed with? Ameraucana and ?? A couple months back I came home and found Georgia making a very weird noise and looking distressed...It sounded like a hiccup and like she swallowed a dog squeaky toy. Since I had no...
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    10 month old broody silkie hen. Do I have to do anything??

    Thanks for your input! She is sitting on the rest of my girls eggs. I have 8 hens who lay right now..so each day she is sitting on 4-7 eggs. Since she is not a great egg layer in general its hard for me to tell when she is laying. Some times her eggs resemble my two young barred rocks eggs. Hers...
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    Lavender Ameraucana Breeders .... UNITE

    My Bantum Lavendaer Ameraucana Lola
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    10 month old broody silkie hen. Do I have to do anything??

    Thanks! Yeah we don't have a rooster so she will not be raising any little chicks! As cute as that might be. She has been coming out every morning when I open the coop up but when I go back in later in the day I find her back on the nest. Maybe I will try locking her out out of the coop for a...
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