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    Need help/encouragement

    Yes, chicken wire was used for the outer perimeter of our yard/run extension so that we could manipulate it around the trees (see pic). All year, we’ve let them free range our whole yard from sun up to sun down with no problems so once we saw one hawk, we immediately set up this tunnel/outer...
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    Need help/encouragement

    Alright, I will just keep monitoring and hope they ease back into their typical happiness over time. Thank you for your input :)
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    Need help/encouragement

    I can get most of them to come out if I call them and tempt them with some dried worms for a treat, then after a few minutes they retreat back into the coop. I’ll attach some pictures of our setup. Right now with the temp/upcoming snow we have 3/4 walls covered and vented from the elements. Then...
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    Need help/encouragement

    Hi! I am one year exactly into keeping our kindest backyard chickens. We had 9 girls and unfortunately a hawk got into our run extension yesterday and ate our sweet Hei Hei. The hawk got caught in the extended run and I had to quickly usher the girls back into the main run while the hawk was...
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    Christmas tree in run?

    Oh that is perfect! Thank you for showing that to me!! :)
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    Christmas tree in run?

    Is it a bad or a good idea to put our real christmas tree into the run after we are done with it? I thought the chickens might have fun playing around on it but I want to make sure I’m not doing something harmful. The tree has no flame retardants on it but I know it’s not organic. Let me know...
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    Run advice

    Your method sounds great and would definitely make my life a lot easier. For the deep litter method, when it comes down to taking it all out and refreshing it, what do you do with all of the mulch/leaves/pine pellets? The only reason I was planning to remove the rocks was so that I could dispose...
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    Run advice

    I’ll attach some pictures of the floor I’m working with and the run! We are located on the beach of New Jersey. Hot (not too hot) summers and cold, icy, windy winters. We also have their run sheltered from the elements for the season with a few slits around the top. Do you think that is enough...
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    Run advice

    I am new to chicken keeping and am trying to improve their run. I initially started with small rocks because that’s what our yard is (we live on a small island and that is the terrain of most yards) but I’m obviously realizing that this is getting hard to keep up with cleaning. My current plan...
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    Gaping wound in chickens foot

    Our almost one year old Austra White (named Lumos) was observed sitting down a lot today so after checking her out, I found a large clump of dirt/poop dried onto a wound on the bottom of her foot. I soaked her feet in a warm epsom salt bath, slowly rubbed the dirt clump off, and observed a large...
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    How long (after introducing pullets) until I can expect eggs again from the current flock?

    Will do! Thank you for the advice :)
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    How long (after introducing pullets) until I can expect eggs again from the current flock?

    Hi! They free range our backyard which has lots to choose from, but is still pretty small. The older birds are 8 months old and they typically laid almost every day. We live on an island off the coast of New Jersey where it is an average of 75° this time of year.
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    How long (after introducing pullets) until I can expect eggs again from the current flock?

    Hello! We just introduced two 8-week old pullets to our current flock. Our current hens (all but one) stopped laying, which I’ve read is normal to have happen when new girls are introduced. Can anyone tell me about how long that the decrease in egg production will last? Just curious (and also...
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    Help with new layer eggs (finding strange eggs all of a sudden)

    Thank you so much for your response and all of that information! It makes me feel a bit better knowing all of that. I appreciate and thank you for your knowledge :)
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    Help with new layer eggs (finding strange eggs all of a sudden)

    I also forgot to mention that she also laid a slightly asymmetrical light colored egg as well! Not sure if that helps give more info!
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