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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    It's a wooden floor, there is only concrete in the very corners to keep out predators but they don't walk on it, it is mostly under the wood. I have an order in for wood chips but it hasn't shown up yet. I will move the roosting bars.
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    I'm New Here

    Thanks.
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    I'm New Here

    Thank you!! I have been lurking for a couple of years.
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    I'm reading about ventilation and it seems that I could put in vents. The walls are metal so I am trying to figure out how I can do that. It has to be simple, my husband might leave me over the chickens, lol. Anyone have ideas? I'll keep reading, in the meantime.
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    Looking at ventilation.
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    I added 2 feeders and a place for the chickens to hide, at least temporarily. Will need to come up with a permanent solution. They all ran to the new feeder in the hiding spot so I don't know if that will help those lower on the pecking order but I will have to refill when they are in the coop...
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    She is very particular about where people can go and has you wear booties over your shoes. I have seen the flock through, not all up close and the cleanliness of the barns. She is very careful but my point was that I have seen where the birds come from unlike ordering them mail order.
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    There is a lot of space in the coop. It was originally built for 25 birds. I have had other chicken people check the size to see what we can fit. We only have 11 right now. They are only in the coop at night and let out early in the morning. It was used for chickens for years before we moved...
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    Waterers are cleaned and filled daily. I just don't use the larger one when it isn't hot but I can start using that one again. Food is fresh every day. I only put out what they can finish. There is very little if any left by the end of the day. I do need to put it in multiple places. Will try...
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    There is some ventilation. They get locked in at night, so not in the open run. There are 3 bars which are over 6 ft each long. I need to spread them out more because somehow they got all pushed together yesterday. There are 11 chickens. I took out the roosting boxes because I was worried that...
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    I guess it isn't that they gobble it all down but I will try this. I meant to say that they are eating and drinking normally and then suddenly they aren't. We feed in the morning and at night and have vegetables and other things to eat in the run each day. The water is always full or at least...
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    Both. Paid for them and did ourselves.
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    I have had a couple done and it was expensive but still no answers.
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    The tall waterer is empty, that is for when it is really hot, I fill it with ice and water. It has only been in the 80s this week.
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    Please Help!! No one can figure this out. My flock is in trouble.

    And the previous owner had chickens in the same location without any disease.
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