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  1. Debbie292d

    Thats not bugs OR snow 🤧

    You don't. It dries out. I can walk barefoot in my coop and not get poop on me. As the pellets absorb the poop and dry it out, they start breaking down to sawdust. In about a year in our one coop, they get about 80% sawdust and then we haul it out in a wheelbarrow, dump some in the garden...
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    Hello my name is Frank I'm new to chickens.

    Hiya, Frank, and welcome to BYC! :frow I hope your chicken will be okay! We're glad you're here!
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    Hi! Im new here

    Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow Green Bean is a beauty! We're glad you're here!
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    Mike in Hooper, Utah

    Hiya, Mike, and welcome to BYC! :frow I loved your story!! We have a Learning Center full of helpful articles written by our members. Sometime you might like to read a few as then you won't have to learn anything the hard way. 😁 We have Forums too up on top, so if you ever have a question...
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    Is frostbite avoidable without electric heating? Should I add heat to my coop?

    Someone asked me once why it's so horribly humid up here, as people think it's more the balmy states. I had to look it up as I had no idea why. It's mostly from the crops, and corn is one of the most "humid" ones. It's also our proximity to the Great Lakes and we have a lot of big lakes...
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    introduction

    Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow I've had a couple like that. It tells me they need more probiotics. We'll give them a bath and use a kitchen scissors to cut the feathers back there so poop quits sticking. Then put powdered probiotics in their water every few days. They also make a granular...
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    Pullets wont roost

    Like I said, some take time, as in several weeks or even a month or two in some cases. It depends on how old. The ones that are 5-6 months old may spend one night on the floor, but by the next will usually climb the ramp and go right up.
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    Is frostbite avoidable without electric heating? Should I add heat to my coop?

    I think I put what we do somewhere in this thread already, but in case I didn't, we have horribly high humidity here, and here's how we beat it. First, adding ventilation doesn't help because now you're bringing in that 90% humidity into your coop. Mold will start growing, and the chickens...
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    The Old Folks Home

    It's been ages since we had Mexican. There used to be a bar/restaurant that did a buffet on Tuesdays. I'll have to call and see if they still have that as it's probably been 10 years since we've been there. Thanks for making me drool. :drool
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    What do I feed my freerange chickens in the winter?

    I stand corrected. I looked it up again. It's a minuscule amount of cyanide in the seeds. It doesn't matter as it's minuscule anyway. Yes, apples are strained, but some remnants of seeds could get into the sauce. Whether that's true or not, I don't need to feed them applesauce anyway...
  11. Debbie292d

    Thats not bugs OR snow 🤧

    The pellets aren't good for runs unless they are covered as as soon as it rains, they all become dustless, pure, sawdust. That's not so bad in itself, but it's wet then and you'd have to spread it out to dry it out. I wouldn't use those where exposed to rain/snow. People DO use pellets to...
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    What do I feed my freerange chickens in the winter?

    We have chickens, but have had macaw parrots for two decades and back when I got the first one, did a lot of research on what they could and could not have. I recall apple seeds have a minuscule amount of cyanide in them, so that we shouldn't feed parrots applesauce as that has ground apple...
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    Proud Chicken Mama Moment

    That is an amazing story! Glad everyone was okay! I don't know your setup, but they make garden netting or bird netting that's relatively cheap, that perhaps you could put up to keep that hawk(s) from returning. Most of the time they'll come back if they see an opportunity.
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    Underweight help

    This started out as you wanting to put weight on your bird, so changing the title to something else now puts all of our replies to you in the beginning out of context. Is he still on the antibiotics?
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    Pullets wont roost

    We've integrated 4-6 month old silkies probably a dozen times. I used to go put them on the roosts for a few nights and most times that worked. In cases where they were the younger side, they stayed huddled by the door so they could be the first ones out I figured. I just leave those be. As...
  16. Debbie292d

    Is frostbite avoidable without electric heating? Should I add heat to my coop?

    I would highly recommend you read this article about how to get around in BYC. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/welcome-to-byc.62787/
  17. Debbie292d

    Is frostbite avoidable without electric heating? Should I add heat to my coop?

    At the top of your page.
  18. Debbie292d

    Thats not bugs OR snow 🤧

    Oh many won't. You'd have to search for other threads here. Don't apologize as none is needed. :hugs I just know horse bedding pellets was a little known secret around the time we started a decade ago and once we converted, just want to make sure others know about them. Sand was never...
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    Is frostbite avoidable without electric heating? Should I add heat to my coop?

    Click the Forum tab and find the forum where your question best fits. For your question about feed additives, you could post that question in the Feeding & Watering Your Flock Forum. Here's a great article about how to get around BYC...
  20. Debbie292d

    What's the temperature where you are???

    -7°F
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