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    Children's Fort turned coop

    Our children's fort was sitting in the yard doing nothing as our kids were in college, so we turned it into a coop. We bought Chicken coops for Dummies and figured out what we wanted, taking pieces from many of the different designs. We put hardware cloth around the bottom run adding roosting...
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    sour crop

    I was unable to get this resolved until I found this online. DO IT! IT WORKS!!! Impacted crops are not caused by your birds needing more grit. Grit is indeed necessary for birds that eat other than commercial feed; they need grit when they eat scratch grains, greens, and when they free range...
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    It's cold in Texas!

    Cream legbars, who do not like cold, but don't mind the heat. And leghorn/orpington mix, who don't mind cold and HATE heat. Hang tight. Looks like we may thaw out this week.
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    It's cold in Texas!

    It has been unseasonably cold here and my girls have been fine. We have no heater in the coop, but we have been putting hot water in milk bottles in the coop. They snuggle up to them. It is the same principle when we put ice in milk jugs in their coop in the summer. We have been giving them...
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    toenails

    Thanks. Will go to the vet tomorrow.
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    toenails

    My chicken has long toenails and one was broken and hanging on everything. So I looked in my books and decided to cut it. I cut too much and it bled for 20 minutes. My chickens will be fine if I don't LOVE them to death. Really frustrated.
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    Bumblefoot

    I just performed my first surgery on my sweet Lady. She doesn't seem any more worse for wear, but I am a wreck. I was able to get some of the junk out, but could not get the "kernel" and I finally gave up. She was bleeding so much more than any of the videos that I looked at today. I put some...
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    What is this?

    She drinks her water out of a chicken nipple feeder. And her other sister, does not have this.
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    What is this?

    I am trying to figure out what this is down Lady's front. Anybody?
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    Paralized Rooster Please anyone?

    Go to Hen cam.com and look. She has some ideas under FAQS and has had some success. I am new at this chicken thing too. Good luck.
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    Drool?

    My chickens are having a rough time in Texas right now. It is over 101. I am providing water, fans, ice, watermelon and electrolytes. But now one of my chickens has a discolored stain on the front of her, like she has been drooling down the front. She picks at it and so does my other...
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    attaching the chicken ramp onto the coop?

    I totally understand. One thing leads to another and then you have a porch!
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    Sick chicks with mites that won't go!

    I had terrible mites. Had to scrub the entire pen with this organic soap. Let it dry in the sun. Then put seven dust on it. I tried DE and it just wouldn't do it. Brushed all the extra 7 dust out of the pen, leaving some in the crevices. Then the chickens were treated. Then I did this all...
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    socializing 7 week old chickens

    Will try this. THANKS>
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    socializing 7 week old chickens

    I just got some 7 week old cream legbar chicks and they can run really fast. How do I socialize them? I was so spoiled with my other two chickens. They have always let me hold them and they stay with me in the front yard. These other two run like the wind and won't stay with anything.
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