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    Caught wet-beaked!

    Yes, they're getting oyster shell calcium. I keep it in a bowl by their feed, and also mix a handful into their feed in their big hanging feeder. I also crush up used eggshells, which they gobble. Our coop has built in nest boxes, 3 on each side, each side has an outside hatch door to lift...
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    Caught wet-beaked!

    Mid morning I went to gather the eggs from my 12 hens. I lifted one hatch and oh, my! The guilty hen quickly backed out of one nest box, wet with egg white and yolk from the tip of her beak to her ears! One egg in the nest box was smashed and mostly eaten, including the shell. Another had a...
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    Can Dog People Raise Chicks/Chickens Successfully?

    We have 3 really different dogs in our family. Ours is a very laid-back 8 year old Rottweiler who completely ignores the chickens. One got into her area... she looked up, then went back to sleep. My daughter in law has an Australian blue-heeler. He herds the chickens into a corner of their...
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    Tragedy and Warning with Heat Bulbs and Chicks!

    My nephew checked on his baby chicks the other night in their pole barn before going to bed. Somehow, the heating lamp got bumped and fell into their box, igniting the bedding, and then catching fire to the nearby bag of bedding shavings, wood, tools, machinery, and feed. The entire barn was...
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    Best way to keep water from freezing?

    I made the cookie tin water heater, and it was superb last winter! The only time it failed was when the light bulb inside it burned out. I "modded" it out a bit; my guys had a can of cold galvanizing spray paint that I used up on the outside of the tin to keep it from rusting, and I put a...
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    What vitamins do you give your chickens? & can you use it with ACV?

    I add backstrap molasses and ACV to their waterers.
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    How to keep a rooster from crowing early in the morning (till 7am)

    I was watching a program about falconry the other evening, and one thing the falconer uses to calm/control a bird is a lightproof hood which ties gently around the neck. Basically a small drawstring bag made of a dark cloth, loose enough for the bird to breathe and snug enough around the neck...
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    Wing clipping

    My ISA Brown hens are heavy production birds, and I have watched them fly 6 feet to the roof of their coop. So I clipped their wings (one side), and they still can do a standing broad jump/hop over the 4 foot fence, no problems. If there's something they really want on the green side of the...
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    If I dont use a light in the winter

    How many eggs can you expect 18 hens to lay? Well, it depends...... LOL! How old are they? What breed? When did they last moult? If this is their first winter, they may well keep laying straight through the winter, especially if they're a production breed of chicken, meaning their breed...
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    How many people use a lighting system for your hens to keep laying????

    I have a low wattage (but very bright) LED light strip tacked up high in the peak of my coop. It's on a timer which turns it on about 7pm and goes off at 8:30pm, then on again about 6am until 8am. Just enough to bump up the hours of daylight to keep my girls laying well. I also have a small...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    I have a broody ISA Brown hen who won't leave her nest box even when there's nothing underneath her but straw. She puffs out her feathers, and growls at me! I have to open up the nest box lid and scoop her out a couple times a day so she'll get food and water. Somehow the other hens lay their...
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    apple cider vinegar

    OK, what's wrong with using ACV in a galvanized waterer? I know it's an acid, but it's a very MILD acid and that shouldn't cause much of a problem leaching out whatever nasties from the steel. If anything, it should inhibit bacterial and algal growth. My 5 gallon galvanized waterer is really...
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    Does anyone use a solid bottom feeder? (link within)

    I use something similar in the coop to give the girls something to eat in the mornings before I can get outside to let them out of the coop. It's a wood bird feeder with a flip lid and a flat back that screws to the inside of the back coop door. I got it at TSC on sale and I think it's...
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    Chicken Has Eaten A Black Widow

    Quote: We have ticks which carry Lyme Disease, and the girls gobble them! And I can still hear my great aunt (who lived to be 100) sing that song to us on car rides when my sisters and I were little. "She swallowed the spider to catch the fly... I don't know why she swallowed the fly...
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    Can you make a hen go broody?

    I put several ceramic fake eggs in the coop's nest boxes to entice my 3 newly acquired hens to lay in the boxes (rather than outside in the coop). Instead, one of my original ISA Brown somehow gathered ALL the fake eggs into one nest box and refuses to leave the box, even when I've removed the...
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    Earlobe / Egg Color question

    I thought the earlobe color indicated whether or not the hen was laying or in a dry spell. 10 of my ISA Browns have red earlobes, the one with whiteish earlobes isn't laying. She used to have red earlobes. All 11 hens lay brown eggs of varying shades.
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    Fish as main protein source

    Fish will affect the taste of meat and eggs. The higher percentage of fish protein, the fishier the chicken will taste. A friend lived in Papua Guinea near Indonesia for quite a few years. When he first arrived there, he was very tired hungry and a little local restaurant advertised fried...
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    Bald butt and swollen below vent.

    ...to pull fluid from the sac, but there wasn't anything. So perhaps not Ascites? Internal laying is the next logical thing to suspect... she *is* a production breed hen. I thought my farmer father-in-law would be a helpful resource, but apparently not. His extensive experience raising...
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    Bald butt and swollen below vent.

    I have a hen with the same condition. I posted two days ago and didn't get a response. I also gave her a warm butt-bath before I brought her to the vet and in retrospect I think it helped her release some of the contents of the mass. Here is the post again: "One of my ISA Brown hens...
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