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    How Long Until New Flockmates are Accepted?

    I'm currently in the process of integrating six 9 week old pullets into my small flock of four 2 year olds. We've been doing slow intros of the pullets in a separated area where they can see each other when outside and we've partitioned off a section of the inside of the coop that only the...
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    How to Keep Chickens Cool in Upcoming Heat Wave?

    99 up here in WA and supposed to be 108 tomorrow so we canceled camping plans. We went to HD and bought 2 of these battery mister fans and just set up and placed 1 in our shaded run. Wow what a difference! Our girls are no longer panting and buzzing around happily.
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    Biters

    Thanks! I'm going to give that a try. My pecks thus far have probably not conveyed I mean business. Thanks for the advice and sharing your technique! Since holding her to the ground hasn't worked I'm going to add some pecks and feather tugs. Thanks for sharing! She's not bad enough yet for me...
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    Biters

    I'm at a loss on what to do with my 10 month old Amberlink named Della who bites HARD. She doesn't peck, she straight out bites. She was my favorite chick and the friendliest of the 6 but now she is sort of a terror. She just walks up and bites my ankles,my boots, through my pants, my arms, my...
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    Scratch & Peck layer pellets?

    Sadly, my girls would not eat the pellets I ordered. I tried mixing with the regular S & P grain and then tried it on it's own and they don't touch it. I'm wondering if this could be the case though with transitioning to any pellet feed if a flock has always had grain? Or maybe my girls are...
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    Why Do You Use Deep Bedding/Why Do You NOT Use Deep Bedding?

    We put washed construction sand in our run. It has a roof but rain and snow can still get in from the sides if there is wind and the edges can get pretty wet and stinky. Since we are in the Pacific Northwest we get a lot of rain. We rake out the poop weekly with a sand flea rake and then...
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    Why Do You Use Deep Bedding/Why Do You NOT Use Deep Bedding?

    My husband and I love it. We used it in their brooder and now the coop. No chicken poop smell, it stays dry, and we spend less time cleaning. Our run is sand.
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    Why Do You Use Deep Bedding/Why Do You NOT Use Deep Bedding?

    We use industrial hemp and the deep bedding method in our coop. It's convenient, keeps things dry, and zero smell.
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    Lost my First -What Did I do Wrong?

    Dixie was the smallest and last to lay but she didn't isolate. We also had 1 of the flock lay some soft shell/balloon looking eggs under the roost 5 days in a row a few months ago but that resolved and we never figured out which one was laying them. No rats or signs of rats that we have seen...
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    Lost my First -What Did I do Wrong?

    One of my favorite 10 month old buff orpingtons named Dixie was found dead on Sunday on the ground in their enclosed locked run near their run roosting bar. We locked all 6 in on Friday morning, and left town for the weekend, and she wasn't displaying any signs of illness. I determined by...
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    Scratch & Peck layer pellets?

    I just ordered the S&P Layer Pellets to try with my flock and it will be here Sunday. They are on the S&P regular layer grain feed, which they like, but it doesn't seem to work well in our gravity feeders with a large amount of dust that acaccumulates at the bottom. I'm also concerned a few of...
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    Chickens Up All Night

    Thanks! I have a routine set to turn the coop and run lights on right at dusk for a bit and then they turn off later. If there is a way to prevent all the lights from turning on after a power outage I'd love to know how but I'm afraid it may not be possible since the light switches the bulbs are...
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    Chickens Up All Night

    HAHA! 100% agree!
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    Chickens Up All Night

    Thanks! I put them into their run early today at 4pm and told them it was early bedtime tonight.😆
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    Chickens Up All Night

    I'm sure I'm just over worrying but thought I'd check with the experts here just to make sure! Last night our power went out shortly after we went to bed and when we woke up this morning all of our light fixtures with smart bulbs controlled by Alexa were ON in the house -including the inside...
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