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    Blood on shell of eggs

    Interesting. My Barred Rock is just over a year old, has been laying regularly since February, and recently got a bald patch under her vent on her bum, and the last two days has laid eggs with blood smears on them. She seems energetic and her appetite seems normal. We started letting them out...
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    why are there blood spots in my eggs?

    I don't have a rooster... and I collect the eggs everyday, so there's no way that was an embryo. Thankfully it was the only egg like that, all her eggs since have been perfect. I was worried that we might have to cull her if she continued producing eggs like that, and she's my favorite of our...
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    why are there blood spots in my eggs?

    Haha yep! Totally silly. Still, once my gag reflex has been triggered about something, there's no eating it without throwing it up the instant it hits my mouth. And that meat egg triggered it. I have purposefully avoided learning too much about how hot dogs are made so that I can continue eating...
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    Feeding fish to chickens

    So good to know! My dad bought a whole salmon and had it butchered, but kept the bones and bits for the chickens. I figured it was ok since many birds live almost exclusively on raw fish, but just wanted to double check since domesticated chickens aren't exactly osprey. Sounds like they're going...
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    Chickens who HATE snow?

    It is our first winter with Chickens, in Seattle, WA. Luckily we don't get much snow, but when we got a couple inches overnight, our 3 girls seemed afraid of it, and kept to the covered part of the run, except to get to their waterer, which they got to by awkwardly sticking to the side of the...
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    why are there blood spots in my eggs?

    I'm guessing this is a meat spot? I did not eat it. It totally skeeved me out. I ate the good one next to it though.
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    Our nearly finished coop!

    Thank Thank you :-)
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    Our nearly finished coop!

    I It's gorgeous! Nice work :-) I want to varnish ours with marine varnish so it's super water proof, but the different colors and grains of wood will still shine through.
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    Our nearly finished coop!

    Thanks so much! You can't get better than free wood. It's a bit more work because getting the wood off the pallets without splitting them can be difficult. We've found that cutting through the nails with a reciprocating saw works best.
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    Our nearly finished coop!

    We used the frame for an Ikea bunk bed as our frame for the structure. We used pallet wood almost exclusively, including a giant piece of sturdy plywood from a mammoth pallet. The only things we bought were screws, u-bolts (for securing the sides to the bunk bed frame), hardware cloth, some...
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    I thought DE helped with flies??

    The DE will definitely help with the roaches! But you have to give it some time. It dehydrates them if it gets on their carapace, but it can take awhile to kill. I had a bed bug problem a couple years ago, and DE'd my entire house. A couple weeks later I saw a sickly looking bedbug in my...
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    Neighbors Dogs

    That is troublesome. If you can catch the dog somehow, and it isn't vicious towards you and has a collar, you could do what my mom used to do with cats that would come into our yard to stalk our bird feeders. She would trap the cat using a can of tuna in a small animal trap, then write a note...
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    Hi there BYC folks!

    Thank you!
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    Recycled Chickens: Let's share what we do to save money and build with recycled materials

    We have't tried that yet, because our chicks are brand new so we haven't wintered with them yet. We do have a couple outdoor bunnies, though, and when it's really cold we fill glass beer growlers with hot hot water, wrap them in old blankets or towels, and put them in the rabbit hutch. It's...
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    Recycled Chickens: Let's share what we do to save money and build with recycled materials

    We made our brooder entirely out of wood scraps we had on hand, including some channeled for sliding doors. The only thing we bought were two plexiglass panels to use as sliding doors. We are building our coop using an old metal ikea bunk bed frame, which we will wall in using pallet wood we...
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