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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Get Rid of Dirty Coop Bedding?

    I live in Costa Rica - my coop ia at the bottom of a hill and is 3 feet off the ground and the floor is a wire metal grate so everything falls through. I rinse the grate under the roost everyday and water runs under from the hill and the chicks scratch and distribute whatever’s left underneath...
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    Solo chick is lonely

    Well I have to separate the momma and the babies - I have a mixed flock of old layers and they are really really mean. I’ve been slowing breeding my own flock with some hens that haven’t had the instinct bred out of them. So if I just leave a broody to roost in the nest box all the other...
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    Solo chick is lonely

    I will do this. I have to build something kind of sturdy for her to spend some time outside- rt now she’s kind of small - I’m in Costa Rica and the chirping brings the iguanas to the yard - I’ll see if I can fit a roost in her cage somehow - I did put a piece of 2x4 into the cage for her to grip...
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    Solo chick is lonely

    Hi - I’ve had a hatch with just one lone chick - Mom abandoned her at 6 weeks on the dot and the poor thing is alone for 6 more weeks until I can allow her out into the rest of the flock - I go down and let her into the coop periodically but there are stretches where she’s alone in her cage -...
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    My Rooster Died This Morning.

    I hope your roo makes it!. :fl
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    My Rooster Died This Morning.

    Thank you. I spent alot of time down there with the rest of the flock today (there are 10 hens) Some are pullets (the babies) and I went over each and every one of them thoroughly. I live in Costa Rica....its deep rainy season rt now so I super cleaned the coop and washed everything with white...
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    My Rooster Died This Morning.

    Ya, Iknow and Im...Im just so wrecked by it and really feel sad.
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    My Rooster Died This Morning.

    This attached pic wasnt my rooster, but mine looked just like this one. He just started crowing about 3 months ago. I had him about maybe 6 months - at first I thought he was a pretty hen, and then it was pretty obvious he was a rooster. 3 months ago he had started mating with the hens, being a...
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    Chicken losing large pieces of scaly skin off her back

    Hi - thanks for your response - she does preen, every morning! Dust bathing yes. Although its rainy season here in costa rica where i live so there def less dust bathing.
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    Hello from Costa Rica

    Shes not gone bald so Immat a loss at would could cause it. The sun makes alot of sense - the feathers are lighter I wonder if the rays penetrate - like I said earlier my dog needs a tshirt for sun protection and i even wear sunscreen indoors here in costa rica - the sun is no joke here - I...
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    Hello from Costa Rica

    Ah okay there is alot of molting happening right now - but I havent seen her back go bald - I guess the newer feathers offer less protection maybe? Thanks so much for the responses
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    Hello from Costa Rica

    Should I peel the rest of the crispy stuff off? We are 7 deg from the equator here but the yard is very well shaded but the greater yard has some open sunny areas.....I do have to put a tshirt on my grey pitbull because the hairs are transaprent - so maybe she needs a chicken tee? Lololol
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    Hello from Costa Rica

    Wow so thats from sunburn? Shes so densely feathered. Theres the long feathers on top and underneath are a bunch of smaller fluffy feathers....she does lay out in the sun tho - theres less sun now because its rainy season .... And sunblock, really? On a chicken? How on earth do I do that...
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    Chicken losing large pieces of scaly skin off her back

    Hi Gang I just intro’d myself in the new member thread. I discovered these scaly crispy pieces of skin coming off my hen this am- its from her back. I noticed because another chicken was pecking at it and she just stood there - - this particular hen is very curious and friendly and shes FAT...
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    Hello from Costa Rica

    No - I didnt thinknit was an emergency since by every other metric the hen is totally fine and not in distress. Is this an appropriate thing to post there?
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