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    nothing but feathers and one lone survivor

    My wife has been preoccupied recently with a job application, and left the coop door open after dark. Now that the days are shorter, its dark before I get home. When I got home I noticed the run door was open, so I closed it up, as well as the door to the coop. The next morning I went...
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    Oh, NO! Raw egg eating chicken!

    I've discovered a few things today. My first discovery was that I found my blue egg layer! She's an easter egger called GoldenHawk. She will not lay in the nest boxes, but builds a next in a corner of the coop. However she is the runt of the litter, she is nervous, and gets picked...
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    Finally.... An Egg!

    Thanks, I can try that. I build the nest boxes so that they have a perch before they go in, but the floor is open so its easy to scratch hay out. I designed it this way so it would be easy to clean, but didn't think about chickens cleaning out the nest boxes themselves. I think I will...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

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    Finally.... An Egg!

    I'm not sure which hen is responsible, but they all sure look proud. So far I have gotten 3, 1 in the nest box, and two in the roosting area. They made for an excellent breakfast. The eggs had a thick wall, and large yellow yolks. I'm hoping for more this morning. The hens are...
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    Fertile Eggs

    thanks
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    Any body live in Westchester County NY (chicken ordinance)

    My wife just told me the town of Carmel, NY just north of westchester in Putnam County, just gave her notice that we cannot have chickens. One of my chicks turned out to be a rooster, which is making a lot of racket now. So I'm sure one of my neighbors has called the city and complained...
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    water heater

    you can get a heated dog bowl and put your waterer insdie the bowl? They sell a plug attachment that turns on when its freezing and off when its 45. Both can be found at the tractor supply store.
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    Fertile Eggs

    how do you tell the difference in a fertile egg and a non fertile egg? I am new to chickens, and have 6. Mine should start to lay soon, and one of my "hens" turned out to be a "roo".
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    question for *professional electricians* about homemade heaters?

    I just installed these, to heat my small coop when the temps go below freezing. I put in a clip on heat lamp and built my own shield out of some extra hardware cloth. Make sure you have a heat shield of some kind, as I kind of roasted my birds feathers the first night. Thermo CUbe...
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    BOSS vs Scratch

    What is BOSS?
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    can you get rabies from handling birds eaten by racoons?

    I ended up going to a doctor outside my county, actually it was a walk in urgent care clinic near work. They offered me a bandade and a call to the putnam county health department.. rabies division. After an interview with the nice person from the rabies division. They determined that it...
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    can you get rabies from handling birds eaten by racoons?

    I used a 1/4 in mesh, but didn't have it secured as well as I had been. I had a leaky faucet behind a wall that had me preoccupied. So I quickly put chicks back in the brooder this evening. I'm not giving up, this is war! I will have both my brooder and coop as secure as Ft Knox, before the...
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    can you get rabies from handling birds eaten by racoons?

    My 3 year old son fell out of bed tonight around 3am. (He wiggles alot in his sleep) I got him settled back into his bed, and went to lay back down when I heard my hens peeping horribly outside on my porch. I went out to find the box I was raising my chicks in was broken into. It's a...
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    Just came across this coop ad on craigslist..........

    This guy is odd. I just bought some chicks from him. He told me he had certain breeds in stock... then after driving 2 hours to get there, I found out he had compelety different ones. The chicks he had were all in terrible shape. The barred rocks had 2 dead birds in the cage, and...
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