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  1. WoodenCoyote

    Broken joint in toe? *pics*

    My 18-months hen Renfield is having trouble with one foot. She walks ok, but if she tries to run she starts limping and stumbling. One of the joints in her toe looks bruised and swollen compared to the match on the opposite foot - is it a break? She's in moult at the moment, I don't know if that...
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    Chicken won't jump from any height

    So I seem to have figured out the problem. The sand was getting too compacted down, as WNCcluck suggested. Clorida must have been leaping and flapping to avoid landing in the sand, aiming for the lip around the pophole. This is why she was crashing into the wall as well. I increased the...
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    Chicken won't jump from any height

    I watched them through the window this morning, and it looks like where the other three just hop down, Clorida leaps with a lot of flapping and bangs into the side of the coop.
  4. WoodenCoyote

    Chicken won't jump from any height

    I might have to change the orientation of the perch. It runs along the length of the coop, so I might put two short perches across the width instead, at different heights. I wish I didn't have to use sand, but it's the only thing they can't turf out. Tried hay, wood chip, sawdust, shredded...
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    Chicken won't jump from any height

    I had to fill the coop bottom with sand because they wouldn't stop carrying hay and straw out and dumping it in the yard. Do you think it's not cushioning the impact of her jump?
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    Chicken won't jump from any height

    Having an odd problem with Clorida. The last month or so, she has been really funny about jumping down from the perch. Her sisters go leaping off and run straight into the yard for breakfast, leaving her pacing back and forth sometimes for up to half an hour until she either finally jumps down...
  7. WoodenCoyote

    Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

    My first egg - and the daft banana laid it in the middle of the concrete walkway, instead of the nestbox!
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    Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

    I thought they might have pushed the fake egg out of the nest, but then we couldn't find it in the coop. The run is built below the coop, so it would be easy to simply knock it down the pophole - except the egg isn't in the run either. So... did they push it out of the nest and down the ramp and...
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    Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

    The mystery deepens. My wife put a fake egg in the nestbox last night, and now it's gone. We can't find it anywhere in the coop or the run. Also, no-one pooped all night. At all. The fresh hay we put in is still completely clean. I had to double check with my wife that they were actually in...
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    Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

    Honestly, we did at first! It was so loud it woke us out of a dead sleep. We both leapt straight out of bed, flailing about in utter confusion. It's a good thing our neighbor sleeps in the front of his house, or he would have had quite a wake-up as well - and probably would have given us a right...
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    Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

    Clorida, my chick marleyXhybrid, has been camping the nest box for three days. This morning we woke up to the most raucous egg song imaginable. You'd have thought they were firing eggs out like a gatling gun. Not a one. Is this normal for young hens?
  12. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Don't go super saiyan?
  13. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Lash them to a tiny chariot and re-enact Ben Hur. Youtube goes mental for that kind of stuff, you'll make a fortune!
  14. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    This was posted to Passive Aggressive Notes. Is it really true? (Anyway, a Big Mac is full of a lot of other crud, so it's not an apt comparison)
  15. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    My niece, who's 4, was surveying my flock and asked "which one is the doodle-doo?" When I told her they were all hens, she nodded sagely and said "I'm a hen, I'm not a doodle-doo."
  16. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Same here. My wife and I both suffer from serious anxiety disorders (one of the things that brought us together), and the chickens are very healing. They provide a certain structure to the day now - even if you're feeling terrible, they still have to be let out, fed, tended first thing. It makes...
  17. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    I'm about to plant garlic. Will they dig it up? I thought it was poisonous to hens.
  18. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Hey, nothing wrong with asthetics. My coop is candy-coloured. The chooks need a nice house too! Here is pre-chook.
  19. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Chickens go mental for watermelon. If you start a patch make sure it is well fenced off.
  20. WoodenCoyote

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Haha my chooks are luxury raised - I bring them their meals and provide all their housing, and I haven't even gotten an egg in return yet. Lazy Me-generation teens! Get a job! Bootstraps!
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