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    watermelons getting pooped on by chickens?

    they haven't pooped right on them...yet. I just don't expect them to have any real sense about where they leave their turds.
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    watermelons getting pooped on by chickens?

    I only have 5 chickens. I was not in charge of how large their run was built, but I feel that it is too small and shaded. So I let them out daily. But they like to visit my garden pretty often. They don't do a lot of pooping or damage anything, but I'm concerned about my watermelons and...
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    Chicken litter compost?

    So, I have 6 bags of soiled pine chips from the coop. I can put them in my compost bin? It's a trash can with screened holes...
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    New to chickens!

    Oof, well thanks all for your help. The weather has been so oppressively hot that I worried the chickens would smother in their coop while learning that it was home. Even with the window open and vents all over, I thought it had to be hotter in there than the 90+ degrees outside. I let them...
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    New to chickens!

    That seems like a good idea. The coop has a lovely sliding window with a screen that we salvaged from our old storm door. But I can investigate a light. Also, the ramp is on our to-do list for fixing....I know it's not a really great one so we will be improving it shortly. I was forced to...
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    New to chickens!

    Yes, they don't seem interested in going in at dusk. Well...some of them do, but it's different ones each night. So I'm thinking they don't get it. I'm tired of catching them, it makes them so upset. I will leave them in for a few days like you suggested. I thought the first night in the...
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    New to chickens!

    Hi! I'm Bonnie and I welcomed 5 chickens into their (not quite finished) coop last week. I'm really not sure of how to handle them; they aren't quite grown, but they are almost there, and they were free-range till they arrived Thursday night. They hate me, since all I have done so far is...
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