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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
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    Hens Missing During Blizzard

    Welcome! I hope you can find them tomorrow, or that they return in daylight. Can you keep them in for a few days? Why are some of your adults wanting to stay outside at night? Some problem with your coop, feeders or waterers, or previous predator events? Usually it's the youngsters who lag...
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    Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

    We do understand... Mary
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    Rats? A Cat? Something Else? What killed my chickens?

    So true, staples just ain't enough! The two sides of our roofed coop/ run, on concrete, with hardware cloth stapled to the framing, 2"x4" woven wire over the lower 4', and then 1"x4" wood strips screwed to the framing over the staples. Our window hardware cloth is also stapled on the inside...
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    Rats? A Cat? Something Else? What killed my chickens?

    We had a rat invasion once, and they killed (beheaded) three nice pullets, ate eggs, and chewed through particle board to get there. I think a weasel would kill many birds at once, so maybe less likely. Apparently any predator could have gotten into your coop that night! Reinforce everything...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    We've been there once, and really do need to go back! Mary
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    Screeching hens every morning! How to stop this behavior?

    Welcome! Chickens do hate change, so true! You can get them a pile of wood chips, leaves, or hay or straw bales, and let them work through that, now that your grass is gone. They will be occupied spreading this stuff around and improving your soil, or making nice mulch, good entertainment...
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    Shop vac for all the feathers?!

    Feathers are either pretty, and may be picked up, or good fertilizer out there on the ground In the coop, they blend into the shavings, also fine. Mary
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    Would love to see your supply storage set ups! Looking for ideas!

    We also have a feed bag cut to fit over each lid, because the cans are out in the coop, which is large enough to hold them, and the chickens do land on those lids often. Mary
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    Would love to see your supply storage set ups! Looking for ideas!

    Sooner or later rodents will chew into those plastic bins! Two recommendations here, both learned the hard way by me: Use metal garbage cans, on bricks or some surface that isn't damp, and keep the feed in it's bag from the feed store, so you have the lot numbers on it. Of course you buy feed...
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    Whether to get more chickens as companions to a hen dying of Marek’s

    So sorry for your birds! I also think that adding new birds now is a bad idea, and having both sick hens euthanized at the same time is best. Consider ducks! they don't get Marek's disease and are also really interesting birds to have. Little ducks, big ducks, or any sizes in between... Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Found our errant pullet today, on a nest in the barn. When she went to eat at the coop, I moved all TWENTY eggs to a dog crate in the same location, and she actually went back to set on them. She's locked in there right now, and I'll move her, crate and all, to the coop 'chick area' tonight...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Three nights ago one of our May pullets failed to come in, and the next morning she showed up when i went out to do morning chores. Then for two night she's been a 'no show', but came out this afternoon for treats when I heard her at the barn. Again, she didn't stick around to get locked in...
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    Vaccinate Chicks- What is best regimen?

    I have chicks I buy from hatcheries vaccinated against Marek's disease, and then isolate them for almost three weeks. Chicks hatched here or from farm stores go right out to the separate chick area at the coop instead. So far no Marek's disease in my flock, and the unvaccinated birds would be...
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    Cat food for laying hens?

    I keep older hens as long as they are apparently healthy, and egg production can be zero or nearly zero for many of them. Chickens need about 14 hours of light daily to produce eggs, and without a light in the coop early mornings my older birds especially just quit until spring. I have six...
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    Sound proof coop?

    Insulating the roof helps with summer heat, which is a good thing. Must be covered with plywood or the birds will eat it! And then critters will move in, if any gaps are available at all. Wasps, mice, rats, whoever, ask me how i know this! And rats will eat eggs and kill chickens, and chew...
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    Housing for bird flu

    Your pen looks good, but it won't keep small birds (who bring in lice and mites) or smaller predators out. Rats and weasels (stoats?) will kill birds and can easily invade this wire. Also a big dog could break through that welded wire. Very handsome ducks! Mary
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    Avian influenza found in South Carolina

    And three commercial flocks in Ottawa county, and a backyard flock each in Monroe and St. Clair county, reported this week. The migrating birds are mostly gone here, but certainly they are flying overhead. :he Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    More AI, three flocks in Ottawa county, one each in Monroe and St. Clair counties. Again! And if the northern lights were visible here last night, i didn't go outside to see them. Maybe tonight? Mary
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    Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

    Love your chick pictures! They do look ridiculous at that stage... Mary
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