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    How long should the lamp on at night?

    @aart, not sure I quite understand what part of my post you found unhelpful or unrelated to the thread???
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    How long should the lamp on at night?

    I’ve never felt it necassary to leave them with food and water at night. initially i did to get them to go in but now they go in on there own, i made an automatic door out of a automobile pwr antenna. its on a photo cell so at dusk theyre in and it closes and at dawn the door opens and they head...
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    How long should the lamp on at night?

    Howard you're not doing anything wrong. If all your birds are going in at the same time every night without a light as a trigger then mission accomplished my friend. My very first flock,15 yrs ago did the same thing, went in at dusk and came out at dawn no lights. None of the flocks i've had...
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    Picture of the large coop and some of my girls
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    How long should the lamp on at night?

    I live in MA, i have 50 birds and a large coop. I only leave the light on for about an hour and a half, it’s on a timer and comes on at dusk as a trigger to let the chickens know it’s time to go to bed, then once they are settled in it shuts off, I have never had a heat supply in the winter...
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    It's 34 degrees and my chickens won't go in the coop.

    I had the same problem with my 50 birds months ago, they would sleep right outside of the coop on cold nights. You see when they don’t go in the coop at night, it means they haven’t established that that is their home, they haven’t made an attachment to the coop, they haven’t established...
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    Abandoned baby chick

    I suppose my first question would be, do you intend on keeping it?
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    Gravel vs sand in run- Coop completed on New Year's Day!

    PLEASE dont use sand soley. I have close to 50 birds in a very large coupe and even bigger run. I have had initiall issues with mud in the coop from the rain so i used Mason Sand, close to 20 bags to cover the run. it was worse than the regular soil itself, as soon as it rained and in...
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    1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I’ve been raising chickens for 15 years now. I started out of curiosity and got hooked (2) How many chickens do you have right now? right now I have 50 chickens with a combination of various different breeds (3) What breeds do you...
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