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  1. littlelizzy123

    MITES!

    Maybe try to make them a new dusting area? I've heard of people using a small kiddie pool, a big oil pan, or even a shallow hole dug and filled with sand and wood ash. DE appears to be a hot button issue, but I do remember when we had a fire pit my chickens went nuts over it. Came out looking...
  2. littlelizzy123

    MITES!

    The packaging should give you specific dosage and mixing instructions. I do remember that ratios were different from spraying the coop vs the birds.
  3. littlelizzy123

    MITES!

    Glad to know I did a few things right! We'll keep it up and I'll report back!
  4. littlelizzy123

    MITES!

    I wormed for worms and sprayed for mites and lice. I don't know what worms they might have, but I did notice runny poops, and one of the girls had an extremely poopy butt. She's fluffy, so that's to be expected, but they've never been wormed before and my extension office did suggest a yearly...
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    What are your favorite chicken treats and why?

    I have raised beds for my garden, and one every year is 'the chicken patch'. I grow things like chard, collards, tatsoi, and spinach. I pick a little, tie it up in a little bundle, and let them go nuts. I want to try a 4x4 square with hardware cloth on top and plant greens in there. Then they...
  6. littlelizzy123

    MITES!

    MITES! I'm only yelling because I'm upset. I never noticed them. They're small. Really, really small. Freakishly small. The chickens seem healthy, happy, noisy. Eating, pooping, scratching, trying to find ways into the garden. Egg production is down, and one's sort of raggedy looking, but molt...
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    Sort Of Kind Of Broody Hen?

    ...in the boxes too, but are big enough to start roosting. I blocked off the nest boxes at night with a heavy piece of plywood. Of course, Monica is p*ssed and is an absolute terror to the little ones when they go down at night. She clucks and squawks and carries on, jumping up and down off the...
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    When to move to coop????

    I have 6 big girls outside (about a year old) and 4 littles, probably 8 weeks or so. The littles are in the garage in the "Chicken Maximus", a large enclosure made of cardboard with pine chips on the bottom, covered by netting. They have all their feathers, but are still scrawny. I'm afraid the...
  9. littlelizzy123

    Cute chick names??

    Ginger (or Ginge) the Buff Orpington. She is one of my favorites, quiet, well mannered, terribly curious, and the bravest of them all. Squats the Black Australorp. She is brash, loud, and usually rules the roost with her co-queen, Merp. Named Squats because she always "squats" when you come up...
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    Comment by 'littlelizzy123' in article '09northernchicks Chicken Coop'

    Beautiful coop! It is so thoughtfully planned out! :D
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    Comment by 'littlelizzy123' in article 'Plants Chickens Don't Eat'

    Most of my problems haven't come from actual eating of the plants (unless they are veggies), but the digging they do in the soil to make their "chicken bowls". They love to wallow around underneath things, tearing up the roots so completely the plant dies.
  12. littlelizzy123

    How to make them SHUT UP!

    Ok, so I am totally with you on this one, OP. I have 6 lovely ladies in a suburban setting, neighbors on both sides. People say chickens are kinda dumb, which I agree with, but they aren't completely stupid. Yes, they are stupid enough to eat styrofoam like it is the most nutritious food source...
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    Chickens in the garden over winter? Will it kill my soil?

    The carrots were a loss. :( However, I think it was a little too hot for them anyway in the place I had them. I will move them to a little more shady spot next time.
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    Chickens in Vegtable garden??

    I don't let them in during the growing season, but I let them in the garden in the fall and winter when everything is winding down and they go nuts. Absolutely bonkers. They strip everything down to the ground like the plague of locusts. And poop everywhere. EVERYWHERE! It's nothing short of...
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    Chickens in the garden over winter? Will it kill my soil?

    This will be my first spring with the chickens, and I only have 6. I am planning on building a fence around the garden boxes (horrid granite-filled sandy Colorado nasty soil over here). I had the chickens out free ranging during the day at the tail end of the season. They left the squashes...
  16. littlelizzy123

    Poop on an Extra Fluffy Butt

    Thank you so much for your quick reply! I think I'll try the trim before the bath, especially considering how cold it is. I have noticed a few pretty poopy eggs, and I'm thinking that might be why. This is my first backyard flock, so I think I'm being a bit overprotective. :P
  17. littlelizzy123

    Poop on an Extra Fluffy Butt

    This isn't an emergency yet, judging by how she is still bossy and eating like a horse, but one of the Taichou Twins (7 mo old Light Brahmas, alike as two peas in a pod) has a pretty poopy butt. She is eating and drinking with relish, runs over when I throw out scratch, acting totally normal...
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    Review by '' on item 'Brahma'

    I have two light Brahmas, The Taichou Twins (Taichou means "Captain" in Japanese) and they are the bosses of the flock. They are firm but fair. They are large, larger than the Orpington, EE, and Australorps, but don't throw their weight around. They are impossible to tell the difference between...
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    Review by '' on item 'Orpington'

    I have one Buff Orpington, Ginger, and she is a good bird. Pretty buff color; her fluff butt is adorable. She is in the middle of the pecking order, very calm and docile. Not overly fond of humans, but not scared either. I got her at 4 weeks, so she didn't have any early human interaction, and...
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    Review by '' on item 'Easter Eggers'

    I had two EEs, but one turned out to be a rooster that I had to rehome. The one that was left, Witsie-dutsie, is a pretty pheasant color, with a nice ruff and grey legs. She is a bit louder than her counterparts, but is the bottom hen in the pack. She is the shyest of them all, and is more...
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