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  1. Our Recycled Shed Coop

    Our Recycled Shed Coop

    Our Recycled Shed Coop It Starts With an Idea and a Run-Down Shed: When we first started to discuss our chicken adventure this winter, I guess we just assumed that my handy hubby would build a coop. But as spring grew near, the cost and chore of our endeavor began to weigh on my mind. When I...
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    What am I doing wrong?!? Feather picking is making me crazy!

    Quick update: I had decided to try putting the chicken who was seperated in the shed back in with the rest of the flock for a bit. I did it for a bit yesterday and it went well. Tonight, I went back to check on them not 30 minutes later and she was trying desperately to hide from them and they...
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    Red bare bum in winter

    Blue Kote is the purple spray you are talking about and it is supposed to disguise the wound. In my experience, it is a very temporary solution and is a major mess to work with. It will not come off of anything it gets on so beware. It will be all over the hand you are spraying with and will...
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    What am I doing wrong?!? Feather picking is making me crazy!

    ...does this keep happening? I will be so sad if I have to give them up and I would never get another flock, but I am at my witts end, can you tell? **PS - After doing some further reading on here I remembered that we also tried the Pinless Peepers with our other chickens. They were a total...
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    Is there something wrong with this pullet?

    It's been about three weeks since my original post and the chickens have all come into laying, except this one. She started slowing down this week as the cold set in and today I found her dead on the floor of the coop. I think it was only a matter of time and I am actually glad that I don't have...
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    Anybody tat?

    I thought tattoos as well. I don't know how many tattoo artists keep chickens, but my husband and I are covered in tattoos and we love our flock
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    Is there something wrong with this pullet?

    I do think her eyes are a bit yellowy and her face is sort of blotchy. I am glad it's not just me that thinks she looks off. I am fairly sure the other Barred Rock is a hen since I have several others and they all look like that. Our whole flock is about the same size and we don't have any...
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    Is there something wrong with this pullet?

    I am raising a mix of Barred Rocks and Delawares which are currently 21 weeks old. It appears that one pullet may be delayed in some way. She is supposed to be a Barred Rock, but she is not only significantly smaller than the others, but she has no comb and even her feathers seem to be different...
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    How many chicks can be sold in Maine or Mass.?

    In NH, the law says that chicks must be sold in batches of 12. I was wondering if anyone knew if there were similar laws in either Massachusetts or Maine? Thanks!
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    Bees & Chicks?

    This morning we suffered our first ever chick casualty. I went out to check our 9 week olds in the garage and one was dead. I have no idea why. I am disappointed and was sad, but we have done pretty well up until now. A bit later I decided to put the rest of them outside for awhile inside the...
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    Starting with goats - A Dilema

    I emailed the breeder today and it turned out that she had been thinking that she should hold onto one of the little boys as either a buckling or a companion for her other little buckling. That meant she would need to let go of one of the other doelings that she was going to retain. So we were...
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    Starting with goats - A Dilema

    Thanks so much for the words of wisdom. I think I am going to get in touch will the breeder today and share my thoughts with her. Maybe she will even have some ideas to work the situation out.
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    Starting with goats - A Dilema

    I posted this on Backyard Herds as well, but need all the advice I can get and this is where I usually hang as we are already chicken people We are about to set out on our first adventure with goats and I am in need of a bit of advice. We have done all of our research and have decided on...
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    A close call with one of our chicks!

    Our chicks are about 3 weeks old and when I went out to check on them this morning I was shocked at what I found. They had tipped over the feeder which is the kind that has a metal base and you screw a glass mason jar onto the top. The jar had come loose from the base and a chick has crawled...
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    Help !Peepered hens not eating!

    It's been two days now and I tried changing the height of the feeder, but they still act like they can't get the food. They go right up to it and know it's there, but they aren't pecking at it and are going crazy. I them some food on the ground and they dove for it. My understanding was that the...
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    Here are my kids enjoying Chicken TV.

    What a wonderful picture!
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    My First Coop is Complete!

    I love your run! I really like how you kept the trees in there. What do you have on the ground in there?
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    First Coop Project!! Few Questionnss.!

    Our current coop is the exact same dimensions, just taller. We used the same reference as mentioned above (4 sq ft per bird) and thought we would be just about right with the 8 NH Reds we started out with. This proved to be pretty tight especially once we had the hanging feeder and water in...
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    Help !Peepered hens not eating!

    In a last ditch effort to curb a major pecking problem we put pinless peepers on 5 of our flock members today. One was spared as she is not normally one of the offenders and one shook them off by the end of the day so we will try again with her. Putting them on wasn't as bad as I thought, but I...
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    All chicks arrrived safely! Pics!

    I wonder is there any way to tell the BR and the Dominique's apart as chicks.
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