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    Injured Rooster

    You could try a cardboard box or a laundry basket???
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    Need a new, improved run. Pics please!

    And leave an overhang to help keep the water farther away.
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    Need a new, improved run. Pics please!

    You can fill the old holes with silicone, making it waterproof again.
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    Best Age to Sell Roosters?

    Just a few days!
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    Addressing muddy run without roof

    Putting a plywood "ceiling" up might help to dissipate the heat.
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    Addressing muddy run without roof

    If you can cover another 18" or so all the way around the edges, that makes a nice overhang for shade and rain deflection.
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    Washing before eating

    Ok, hen anatomy closes the feces area off when an egg is on the way through. The bloom (wetness) that covers a newly expelled egg seals the shell from bacteria once it dries. You could rinse your fingers before you get your toast, lol. I hope this explanation helps you.
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    So I got myself into a problem 😆

    What about getting your eggs collected?
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    Please help - entire batch of chicks dying suddenly - TWICE

    I may have missed this if someone already noted it, I lost 2 different batches of chicks because they got overheated while I was setting up a larger cage to move them to. I waited too long to move them and they were crying, stretching and struggling, then they passed within minutes of each...
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    What are you adding to your flock this year?

    I'd like to suggest you get 2Salmon Favorelles as they tend to get picked on
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    Protecting run in winter

    I've found clear 6ml vinyl table cloth covers on line in many different sizes. I'm very happy with them as I couldn't find 6ml vinyl in the sizes I needed and at an affordable price!
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    How to build a latch or lock on my run door that opens from both sides?

    I use the same type latch and drilled a hole for a thin wire to be run the same way as above, except we used a large nut instead of a ball, and yes, I had gotten locked in my coop because when we added siding we forgot to see if the wire could still be pulled! Happily I carry a phone so I was...
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    Advice for overwhelmed soon to be chicken owner!

    No one has mentioned the need to raise the feed and water containers to keep the shavings and poop out of them!
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    Winter Feed Cost and Growing Fodder

    I take the fermented feed out to the run about 2 hrs before the chickens go in to roost and they finish it off pretty quick. I use two trays and feed 20 chickens. It's been as low as 9 degrees.
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    Winter Feed Cost and Growing Fodder

    I've since given up on raising fodder because of this issue. This is a pan at least 1 1/2 weeks past using. The fuzz started between the stems at seed level about the time I was going to use it. I wasn't sure whether it would hurt the chickens, so I didn't serve it. I did read something...
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