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I have a question - My austrlorp has been broody for about a week now. She has been in the broody buster the entire time. She has never take this long to break before. But she is still very broody. We don't have roosters so not looking to have any chicks. Do I keep her in the broody...

I have tried everything I have read to break my two broody birds. So we have made a broody buster. My question, is do you leave them there overnight too or put them on the roosts and then pull them out in the morning?

My Cuckoo Maran took forever to start laying and then stopped during the winter and I now laying fairly consistently. Not as dark as I had hoped but still dark.

I think we discussed this before about the roosts. And our coop (we didn't make it, a previous owner did) isn't not set up to do that. At least 4 birds can sit on a roost so they are plenty long enough. I don't like poopy eggs either and for the most part they don't sleep in them but...

Not like I let them sleep in there but I am not going to go out there every hour at night to make sure they aren't but they boxes are right next to the roosts so if chickens are there and not moving when the other one wants in, I can't make them stop it. Especially if it is before I even get...

It is possible that one of the birds (as much as we push them out) is sleeping overnight or blocking the nesting box at night. I always find it when I open up the coop in the morning never during the day. If they lay during the day then it is always in the box only if I find it in the...

Is this true? Since I have found that pine shavings work the best in our coop as they chickens won't keeps the straw under the roosts instead they move it around so much that I just have bare wood floors beneath them. Just curious if I need to figure something else out. I just have been...

okay I have a chicken, not completely sure which one but have my suspicions, that will sometimes lay on the roost now that it is winter. She always went into the box before the days got shorter. We have no lighting for other reasons which is fine. But just curious if it was normal during...

I have used PDZ before but ran out. I need to get a few things anyways, so I will pick it up and use it again.

I finally got it down into the 50% so I got it figured out. I had a chicken expert come out awhile ago and she said I was fine size wise with the ventilation we had. So with the additional ventilation and some tweaking inside with the droppings, I think it is solved. It hasn't been very...

Unfortunately we don't have a big coop and short of tearing this coop apart to do that to the roof, it can't be done until spring. I have three with combs and the others are pea combs. My maran has tip damage. The australorp has it worse now. I semi cleaned the coop to get the poop out but...

We have done all we can figure out to do to keep the humidity down in the coop. It has been resting around 70 to 80% for a couple of weeks now but that is because it is that outside too. We have ventilation holes in the coop but not sure it will matter if the humidity is high outside too...

Thanks. I figured it was just suggested. So I tried it but she was not happy about it at all. So I will just do what I can and watch her.

One of them decided to molt in the cold weather. She is clearly cold, she is shivering. Her feathers are coming in and she has feathers but she is cold. You can feel it when you hold her. We tried to put a sweater on her, I didn't want to but I also don't want to lose her to being so...

I found them. Thanks.