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    How to keep rooster from injuring hens during mating?

    yep are you de spurring your roosters that can help and just keep chicks separate in area they can see them but not get to them ....eventually they just accept new ones
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    New guy here. Need help on coop

    first coop we built with house and run and put wheels on it so we could move around yard as they wipe out the grass under it quickly fairly simple was great idea and even moved it around with my atv but after a few years and about up to 55 chickens just use it for new hatchlings and moms put...
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    Review by 'CJONESFAY' in article 'Cleaning and storing fresh eggs'

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    Comment by 'CJONESFAY' in article 'Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise Chicks'

    Always was thrilled when they went broody and hatched....my only problem was seems that there are way too many roos each time. Good article!
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    Hatching vs purchasing chicks

    I have gone both ways ... but everytime we hatch at home we end up with too many roos and then have to cut back give away or they kill each other
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    Duck kill other ducks??

    I have 6 females for every male .... they survive even better with 10/1 Too many males will kill your females and each other.
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    Bloody egg!!!!!! WHY?

    As long as the bright red could be obstruction like hemrriods when dark red serious internal bleeding and will usually die within hours
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    Help! My wife is mad at me for feeding the chickens pizza!

    Put the pizza in compost pile. They can have a little but better off putting in compost and then let them get the bugs from it lol
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    Hens stopped laying

    Add light to coop area keep light away from them but light up they then think day is longer
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    Poopy feather stuck on baby chick, tried cutting

    take cotton balls soak with dawn liquid and warm water rub it till it is free...try not to soak bird
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    Total chaos

    If anything they hang closer to coops and runs they not wandering far away but I will keep searching ty
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    Total chaos

    nope the chickens are staying closer since I put out the new peeps but the guineas free range lay but I know where their nests are and check them daily....chickens have always laid in their boxes or coops they never have free range laid they are out by 7 am but always put themselves up by 6pm...
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    Total chaos

    yes they have the option of daily free range but unhappy and here is nc coast so about 13-14 hours of daylight still
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    Florida shed-to-coop build

    The solar motion light has to be within certain distance since we have the coop a good ways from house we have two in different directions and heights to cover the area...grant it if the bear wants them no amount of anything will stop it except a lead pill. We had a piglet we had to put in...
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    Total chaos

    we have plenty of daylight here still but guess they really pissed off I let them free range during day but now most hide in house except for the older ones that are marching around new birds pen. I coax them out with mealy worms but they head back in coop afterwards. Just was surprised at their...
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    Pullet or cockerel @ 11 weeks?

    pullet
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    Corn problems

    I can not image going to all that trouble of crushing it ...feed the squirrels or ducks or find some one to trade it with and give them scratch it has the cracked corn in it.
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    Florida shed-to-coop build

    How many birds are you housing and do not forget they need good air flow your nest box is nice but expect them to lay in floor on straw also they like dirt bathes so an area that they can get to the sand. The biggest challenge you may face is something digging under shed from what I can see. You...
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    Total chaos

    Well, knowing that my hens are getting older and lost a few over the year to a predator. I added 30 new ones and have them about 8 weeks old put them out near the older ones but not in same run. The older ones can see them but can not get in their pen. A couple of the hens pace back and forth...
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    My hens won't eat anything other than regular feed

    my birds always get with it when I introduce them to mealy worms....kind of like chicken cocaine lol even new babies that are slow to respond
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