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    Sick Chicken

    Hi all, I have a couple chickens out of 8 I just purchased. 2 of them seem to have a cough, one of the 2 has mucous coming out of its nose and eyes. I have segregated them from the rest and have been giving them some antibiotic for a few day. The cough has pretty much cleared up but the one is...
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    Beginnings of new coop

    No, It attached to my shop a couple hundred yards from the house. I am using one wall that is the wall to my lean-to where I keep the yard equipment, and one wall is my actual cinder block wall of the shop.
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    Beginnings of new coop

    Well work has gotten in the way of being able to work on the coop. Been out of town for the last couple weeks, but got back at it this last weekend. So far used nothing but pallets and scrap lumber, the only thing I have purchased is a few linoleum scraps. Will be buying some siding...
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    Knoxville, TN

    Welcome!! I'm new too and in Paint Rock TN. Close to you.
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    Beginnings of new coop

    Thanks for that!! Will do!
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    Beginnings of new coop

    Here are the long narrow skids I scored this morning. Looks like they will work great for my nesting box base!! Now back to work!
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    Beginnings of new coop

    Hi all Started on a new permanent coop and run. Mostly using heat treated pallets I've scavenged here and there. Yesterday scored big with someone throwing out these 4x4 pallet-like display skids. I attached these as the base of the walls on an 8x9 base of pallets, scrap OSB, and topped it of...
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    Meet our girls!

    She weighs about 4 lbs but thinks she is a 100 lbs. She is the ruler of the house, with 4 other dogs that weigh between 20 and 75 lbs.
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    Meet our girls!

    Mini Daushhund
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    Meet our girls!

    I guess I did take a picture before dark, will post more tomorrow. Here is a bad picture of the wore out chicken herder Daisy!! Lol!
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    Meet our girls!

    I did freeze some water bottles last night, maybe in the A.M. I will throw them in their waterer's.
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    Meet our girls!

    I'll try to get some tomorrow, it's getting dark now. It was 95 hear today. Only got 2 eggs:( Usually get 5 or 6. Do you think that is cause for worry??
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    Meet our girls!

    So tonight I built kind of a temporary fenced in run, so I can let them run without us having to be following them around and keep them out of trouble. I used 2 50 ft rolls of vinyl coated 36" welded wire, used a few trees in my yard and a few plant stakes and a couple t posts to hold it up...
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    Meet our girls!

    Here is Betty and Louise wrestling for a hole in the yard to bathe in. I guess hens that bathe together stay together!!
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    Meet our girls!

    Ginger Betty Louise Minnie Pearl Henrietta (the queen bee) Mary Ann (the baby) Thelma Will edit post tomorrow with the last bird Thelma, she is camera shy lol!! Had a little success story tonight with them, 4 mean girls would not let the other 3 on the roost and they have been sleeping...
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