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    Chickens keep dying 😭

    Double check feed. Lost two hens. New bag of feed was moldy. To this day everytime I refill feeders I smell the feed
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    Two chicks died, moved remaining to new coop but they won't go in at night

    Double check feed. Lost 2 hens one year. New bag of feed was moldy.
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    Sponsored Post Nestera Coop Giveaway! Total worth $1595

    I also like to protection for the hens. Losr 6 hens last spring to foxes.
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    Sponsored Post Nestera Coop Giveaway! Total worth $1595

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    Sponsored Post Nestera Coop Giveaway! Total worth $1595

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    Rats in my run!! HELP!

    I had rats coming up in the run area. I used a 5gallon container put food and poison in container, covered and weighed container down with bricks. Did this to the other holes I found around. Check the next day all food/poison gone. (rats had also moved into the nearby shed.) Then they also get...
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    Water in Coop in winter

    Use cleaned out milk jugs/or the heavier white vinegar gallon jugs. Cut out one side for chickens to get a drink, cut out back to fill from outside of run. Cut handle so it hangs on hard wire. During freezing weather. switch out in morning and again in afternoon with another container. (remember...
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    Roosters

    If they are always all together the roosters like the hens will get a pecking order. Come spring hormones rage and you will find them fighting alot for about a month. then they will settle. When I had 2, one got injured and after he was well I put him back with the flock and his shell mate...
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    Roosters

    I've had 1-7 roosters at anyone time. I'm currently feeling bad cause I've had to send a mean rooster to the pot. But I've taken in 2 friendly roosters for the girls.
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    Plastic Wrapping Runs

    I always enclose my coop runs in plastic. Usually I decide where its going to sit for the winter. ( My coops and runs are moveable) Then using heavy plastic wrap. (reuse old pieces till they fall apart. enclose the whole thing. During a 2-3 foot blizzard the coop area its warm and very little...
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    Review by 'mmmeyer' in article 'Dealing With Roosters Roo Behavior'

    I have a nice rooster and a mean rooster. I will try and work on getting my mean rooster to behave better. If this doesn't work he might end up as a puppy squeaky toy.
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    Lice?

    dust both the chickens and make sure coop is clean and also dusted. all the nooks and crannies contain all those little buggers. Also dust roosts.
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    Lice?

    Poultry dust
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    Red Butt

    Try poultry dust dust him and the roost where he is at nit
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    Pullet with hole in her head!

    I had one hen that the rooster and other hens would do that to her. I sprayed the wound with bannix pet. Its an antibacterial and anti fungal. I spray her whole head. She was one of the older hens but when the rooster would mount her two other hens would run over and start in on the back of her...
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    Is it molting?

    it garden dust poultry dusting powder. usually found around the same place as the diatomaceous earth. But with this you actually dust the chickens. easy at nite. pull one out of the coop dust with powder make sure under wings. then on to the next hen. for the coop. I clean it out then let the...
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    Is it molting?

    Sounds like mites/lice etc...I would dust with poultry dust the chickens and the coop. Every morning I do what I call a butt check. all the chickens have to have fluffy butts.
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    Black widows in my coop!!!

    mix white vineger and coconut oil. and spray around it will keep them away.
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    One week old Buff Brahmas, what can I feed them besides starter feed, or can I?

    baby chicks are not bored. at this age all they do is eat sleep and grow and poop and repeat. when I first get mine I just give them start and grow as a feed and every day I do a butt check to make sure their butts are not impacted with poop.
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    Changing food

    I think the key thing is the protein level for baby chicks to grow properly. game start and grow vs chicken start and grow. game is higher in protein ..not by alot but still higher. I've forgotten how long chicks need to be on start and grow. but like you I like pellets better than crumble less...
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