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    Review by 'roguedesigns' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    I loved using sand in my coop, but at least once I year, I had to dig out THE most foul (fowl?) smelling poo cement you have ever encountered. The top would stay pretty dry, but any liquid would settle down into the compacted sand below, and come spring, I had a disgusting, stinky, tough job...
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    ++++Anyone have a chicken with a really poopy butt???

    Is trimming my only option? I don't have time to be soaking and pulling poop off of bums every couple of months, and then blowdrying, and generally apologizing to my hens for the indignity of having to have me scrub their nethers. I wash 'em and it comes right back. One girl doesn't mind at...
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    Tricide Neo for Bumblefoot- Still recommended?

    Oh man, I just won the chicken lottery. I picked her up to check out her foot and look for the scab - I was SHOCKED to see that it looked like it was just a huge plug of mud and poo. One foot's plug was gone completely, leaving a stretched out bubble of skin, and the other's I was able to pull...
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    Tricide Neo for Bumblefoot- Still recommended?

    Aw crud - I was playing the "watch and wait" game with a hen that ended up with lumps in between two toes on both of her feet. I noticed them after a scaly leg mite treatment and figured it had to do with that. She is just fine except for the lumps - no limping, eating and drinking and...
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    Scaly Leg Mites - Need Best / Easiest / Quickest Solution - Scaley

    All five of my girls had it for quite some time before I realized what it was, but no one seemed to get it too badly or to be in pain thank goodness. We just cleaned out the coop and sprinkled plenty of sevin powder into all the nooks and crannies in the coop, and painted the Vaseline on to...
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    Pinless peeper removal

    I was thinking that might be the response. Thanks!
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    Pinless peeper removal

    Today, after a year and a bit, I took the pinless peepers off some of my lower ranking, but feisty hens. One of them immediately began attacking the others, just as she had before the peepers went on. We had been living peacefully for so long that I thought they were ready. . . Silly me...
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    Trouble in the hood

    Oh, I just noticed that RedDrgn mentioned trying pinless peepers. I'll give it a whirl and hope for the best!
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    Trouble in the hood

    I'm having a similar issue with bullies and sudden bullying. My silkie needed considerable convincing that she is at the bottom of the pecking order (she objected to this for quite some time, so was beat on quite a bit by our dominant hen and her henchhen). We had to pull her out to heal up as...
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    Comment by 'roguedesigns' in article '"The Egg Plant" Coop'

    My chicks are named after the Golden Girls as well. :)
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    Whats the weirdest thing your chickens have eaten or tried to eat??

    Phew, I thought I was alone in that. . . . I guess it's only fair - the dog eats their poo. Recycling at its grossest?
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    Whats the weirdest thing your chickens have eaten or tried to eat??

    Phew, I thought I was alone in that. . . . I guess it's only fair - the dog eats their poo. Recycling at its grossest?
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    Chicken fights

    I want to put them back together, but any time they're out together, the silkie takes a brutal beating - she's taken to almost playing dead as soon as the EE even looks at her, and stays on the far side of the yard away from all the rest. When they go into their run together, and the EE attacks...
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    Chicken fights

    I'm back again - it's been nearly three weeks now, and my EE still attacks my Silkie every chance she gets when we let them out to free range. The Silkie is fine with the other two girls (a RIR and a SLW), so now she's back in the coop with them, while the EE is in solitary confinement in our...
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    Chicken fights

    Thanks for responding Centrarchid. I noticed the wounds late in the afternoon and they were very fresh (the blood was still flowing), and the coop is entirely screened in with hardware cloth, so I have a hard time imagining it's rodents. I thought it seemed like odd damage as well since it was...
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