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    Why won’t they use their ramp ?

    Go to Carolina Coops website and make or buy the stairs. My girls have no problem with steps. I think the ramps are slippery
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    My heat lamp is making the brooder too hot

    Buy a heat plate. So much easier to use I think. That's what I used and as the chicks get bigger you can raise it up. They get too hot then they move out from under it. If you don't have the finances to buy one then you have to monitor the chicks to find the correct height for the bulb. There...
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    Chicken finds it annoying when i try to pick her up!!

    Once they start laying eggs they become much easier to capture because they do that squat with the wings out like if a rooster's going to mate with them.
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    Can someone confirm this is normal?

    Olive eggers lay green eggs. Easter eggers lay from blue to a green. All hens eggs are white until they lay them. Then the color is added. What you feed your girls gives them the flavor and the pastured raised ones (where they can eat bugs etc) have darker yolks. Color has nothing to do with taste.
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    Can someone confirm this is normal?

    I've had shell-less eggs and broken eggs. I'm looking in the hutches and hen house several times a day. Remove those eggs ASAP. You don't want the girls to think they should eat them raw. I have 18 chickens. I did have one girl's egg break while in the middle of laying it. I gently pulled it out...
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    Predator problem

    If you use hardware cloth on all the walls and the roof venting, you should be good. But your predator apron also needs to be hardware cloth. I've hear snakes will kill chickens too. I've stapled 2' wide hardware cloth all around the coop and their run. I have racoon, bobcats, bears and coyotes...
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    How much bedding do you need?

    Go to Carolina Coop and watch their videos. I use their deep litter method and just removed the top layer and put in new hemp at 20 months.
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    Building a predator proof run

    You don't have to dig deep on the exterior to install a 2' wide hardware cloth barrier. A couple of inches will do and just attach it to the outside of the Run and then cover it up. When animals try to dig, they dig up close and then back up a little to dig and then they run into the hard work...
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    Ways to give a chicken oral medications

    I have a syringe with pro-biotics (it's a thick gel) my chick is broody and when I check her in the hutch she always pecks the 1st time I reach in the hutch. So I had the gel out at the ttip of the blunt syringe and stuck it at her beak. She pecked and got a mouthful! And that's how you get...
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    How often does everybody change their litter in their coops?

    Get industrial hemp. Carolina Coops carries it and putting this in your henhouse will keep for a minimum of a year and I've heard a lot longer. They have lots of videos youtube
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    Comment by 'Tcline4' in article 'Disabled chicken'

    Success for their 1st night in their hen house! I made a small platform with 3 - 1 x 1 side railings on a 1 x 6 square and attached it to one of the roosting bars. The other girls seemed confused and I think tried to sit with little Petunia! Within 30 minutes of being in their new place to...
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    Disabled chicken

    So I Now know that my Mottled Houdan is a girl. She has a slipped tendon and I'm keeping her legs hobbled. The vet hopes this will fix her, but not always. My girls are now 6 weeks old and will be in their coop full time within 2 weeks. My little Petunia may never be able to roost so I was...
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    Wonky leg

    Thanks for this info. I've been dealing with this for 2 weeks. I may take her back to the vet. It's been 50 years since I've had chickens and I Don't know anyone close to me who could show me all this. I took on a responsibility and I Want to try and get her fixed. I would have thought a Aviary...
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    Wonky leg

    She gets to her food and water and moves across the crib brooder to snuggle with her other 5 buds. She's behind with flying (does flap her wings more now) she can not roost
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    Wonky leg

    I'm not sure how my Mottled Houdan injured her leg in the brooder. I even took her to an Aviary vet who told me to isolate and let her rest for 2 weeks. Was told that nothing felt broken. I did that for 5 days and then the bandage trick. That seem to help after 3 days but the bandage would come...
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