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    Egg bound? Hen won't walk - poops in place... HELP

    7L Farm: thanks! what am i feeling for - will the vent area be soft if there isn't an egg and hard if there is - i guess? Chuckle... amazing the interesting things we get to do when we own chickens... Thanks.
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    Egg bound? Hen won't walk - poops in place... HELP

    Hi - we're new to the chicken thing... have browsed through the posts here and can't find one that matches, so here goes... We have 20 birds (ISA browns, 8mos old) - 18 eggs a day - so the flock seems healthy. However one hen hasn't walked around much in the past 2 days. Stays sitting under...
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    for those that use deep litter method...please advise me

    This is an excellent chain of posts - I've learned a lot. My daughter and I started with 8 day olds back in June... just getting ready to lay now. From the beginning we planned on the deep litter method, so I built our coop accordingly. For our 20 birds - we have an 8x8 wood framed, insulated...
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    Ducks can't see at night.

    We have four ducks (some mallard-ish breed I think).... blind as bat's at night. If i turn on the red light on my headlamp, I can open the gate and walk right into the pen and stand right beside them, pick them up, move them around - whatever. They know I'm there - but they can't seem to...
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