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    Water Freezing - no electricity to coop- any ideas?

    wow thank you everyone for so many good ideas... I can't run electricity to the coop because my husband won't let me. He says it's a fire hazard... I disagree but he wins (mostly because i'll put it out and he'll take it in) I think we're good I was worried because someone told me that they...
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    Water Freezing - no electricity to coop- any ideas?

    My 3 girls are troopers... they are still laying once a day even though the temp here in Northern New Jersey is in the teens for the last 2 weeks and we aren't going to see any relief for a couple more weeks. My challenge is that their water keeps freezing within 2 hours. I work full time, we...
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    beak injury - please help

    she seems to be eating and drinking... its still a bit of a struggle but I'm not hand feeding her anymore. I figure that if she gets hungry enough she'll figure it out.. She seems to be getting stronger each day, So I'm assuming she's eating enough.. her comb is getting better color but still...
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    beak injury - please help

    I have another question or two if anyone can help with some ideas. Miss Ginger is up and around, despite the damage to her beak she is trying to figure out how to eat and drink on her own.. my challenge is that the other 3 hens won't let her near the food or water and they basically attack her...
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    beak injury - please help

    Well I think I found out who hurt my Ginger the other day. Who by the way is doing a little better each day, still not eating solids but she seems to be interested I'm going to work on more aggressive hand feeding.. Last night around 11:30 my dog started howling and pacing back and forth...
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    beak injury - please help

    my little Ginger is doing much better today, her 1 eye is open and she seems to be able to see the other eye still not so good but not as bad and she is standing and walking a little. She is only taking the gatorade from the bottle its making her tongue blue but she seems to like it. She...
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    beak injury - please help

    Just wanted to thank you for your help.. I had a newborn nurser that we used when we found a 3 week old kitten so I filled it with gatorade and got her to drink almost half the bottle, less what spilled back out of her mouth. it also helped to soften up all the crud too. got her mouth almost all...
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    beak injury - please help

    we were able to get a little water in her.She is having trouble swallowing. I cleared the debris but she keeps rubbing her face in the bedding... I put clean bedding in a nesting box and put her in there. She seems to be fine for a couple of minutes then she starts weezing and her breathing...
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    beak injury - please help

    I don't know what happened to my 5 month old hen overnight or very early this morning but when I went to check on them later this morning she looks like something tried to grab her by the head. Her eye is all a mess and her beak is broken up pretty bad. she seems to not be able to see out of...
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    beak injury

    her beak is so broken up I almost cried.. they are locked up at night when I went to let them out in the morning I was in a hurry so I just opened the door and let them out into the pen.. sometimes they don't all come out when I open the door so I didn't think anything of it. I went back to...
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    beak injury

    I don't know what happened to my 5 month old hen overnight but when I went to check on them this morning she looks like something tried to grab her by the head. Her eye is all a mess and her beak is broken up pretty bad. she seems to not be able to see out of the eye and is very lethargic. Is...
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