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  1. limabean

    Peterborough, Ontario by-laws?

    Well hello there! Desiree and I picked up our chicks together back in May. I now have 5 - 4 red stars and 1 Plymouth barred rock. An additional BR died about a month and a half ago of unknown causes. I've had no legal issues. To the best of my understanding, the laws here are vague enough that...
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    Chicken flap/door in a sliding window - brainstorm with me?

    Oooh, some of your ideas sound delightfully fancy, but too po$h for my ladies. I think I'm going to get some heavy clear vinyl and make a flap curtain like what you see on walk-in freezers, butterfly sanctuaries, etc. The garage is stand alone, but only 20 feet or so from my kitchen door...
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    Layer mash with pellets that hens avoid...?

    Hmm, reading more it seems that my ladies may be missing out on important nutrients by not eating the pellets, so I may have to go ahead with crumbles.
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    Heat hanging waterer with heat lamp?

    ^ UGH. For a while there I had mastered not spilling, but somehow I've lost that skill, so I can look forward to spilling water on myself out in the freezing cold. Wheeee!
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    Layer mash with pellets that hens avoid...?

    Browsing through some old threads, I'm not even sure I'm using the right terminology! Anyway, the feed I use has whole things in it - corn, oat, seeds (?), etc, AND pellets.
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    Layer mash with pellets that hens avoid...?

    I chose mash over pellets or crumbles because I just thought the idea of them eating "whole food" seemed better...but the darn mash has these pellets mixed in. Hmm, maybe I will consider crumbles the next time I buy feed.
  7. limabean

    Chicken flap/door in a sliding window - brainstorm with me?

    ...is mounted inside my garage, with the run mounted on the outside of the garage. The chickens use the open sliding window to go in & out. The run is *very* secure against predators (really, I promise!), so up till now I've just left that window open at all times. As winter approaches, I think...
  8. limabean

    Heat hanging waterer with heat lamp?

    Quote: Good point! Dar, yeah, I only have 5 hens (was six last week ). The waterer is 2 gallons I think. All this talk is making me dread bring that waterer in and out to change the water in the winter!!!
  9. limabean

    Heat hanging waterer with heat lamp?

    I am also in Canada (central Ontario). I meant the waterer itself is too small to wrap a heating pad around. My waterer is metal.
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    Heat hanging waterer with heat lamp?

    Dar, are you saying you've tried a heat lamp and it does not work? I can't imaging wrapping a heating pad around my waterer - it's too small. The reason I don't want to set the waterer on a platform is simply that it would involve reconfiguring my coop layout and all the inevitable trial and...
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    Heat hanging waterer with heat lamp?

    I have a hanging metal waterer. Rather than setting up a platform so I can set it on top of a heater for winter, can I point a heat lamp at it (obviously up out of reach)? Would that heat it enough? And what would the energy consumption be like? I am thinking the heat lamp would double as a heat...
  12. limabean

    Layer mash with pellets that hens avoid...?

    My layer mash has some sort of pellets in the mix (along with visible variety of grains) ... I have noticed my hens don't eat the pellets. Their feeder ends up full of these pellets, with them crowding around demanding food, as if they have none. What's going on?
  13. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    THe other hens' poops seem to be normal. They are also all very perky and energetic.
  14. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    Thanks everyone.
  15. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    She's dead! I found her at 3:15 - 7 hours after I first saw that she was sick!! I'm still hoping for answers... Could this be something that the other chickens could have caught from her???
  16. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    I don't see any neck stretching or obvious gasping.
  17. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    Let's hope someone has advice for us, Christina!
  18. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    I looked up internal laying. It's nothing like that. Now based on other things I read I am going to look for mites. Will update.
  19. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    No, not walking at all. I will search internal layer now.
  20. limabean

    Sick Hen: UPDATE: SHE'S DEAD! 7 hrs sick

    I am wondering if it would be useful to try to get some broad-spectrum antibiotics? Dewormers? ?
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