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  1. Babe77

    Integrating older crowd with the teenagers

    Thanks Terri.. This is my 1st time integrating also. Parenting children or chicks has its trials and tribulations, I would love for them to get along but just tonight we let the older ones out and they still hang around the outside fence line where the babies are. Occasionally the babies will...
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    Integrating older crowd with the teenagers

    We have 3 yr olds (8 hens,1 roo) and have then housed in a coop with nest boxes and have a run for them that is 30 x 40 ft. They free range nightly. We purchased 1 day olds who are now 10 wk old toddlers (15 pullets and the 1 unexpected roo) . They are housed in a converted bus stop no...
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    Handling Hardware Cloth. I can tell you how NOT to do it.

    I use a Dremel and let the tool do the work for me. You can buy a set of different blades for all sorts of projects
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    Toy's for Chicks?

    Try these out: http://www.squidoo.com/Chicken_Toys http://www.woodgreen.org.uk/pet_advice/423_chicken_enrichment
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    Lame hen..is she doomed?

    Quote: So sorry to hear that and understand how we have to do what is better for them and not for us.
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    Lame hen..is she doomed?

    So sorry for what you are going through, it is a hard decision to make, We are also facing this same thing with a lame hen and can find no reason for it. She was fine when we let them out to range Saturday and fine when we let them back in. The hubby found her just lying there Sunday and...
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    Daylight time changes....how/when do I adjust in coop

    Mine get at least 14 hrs of light. I adjust using a timer about 30 minutes increments over a couple wks time so it doesn't confuse them. And that is added in the am rather than the pm
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    Egg production, Internal laying and when is it time??

    Thanks Fred and glad to see a close neighbor in the group, really appreciate your experience. I thought the same thing about getting girls this past spring for this seasons laying but the hubby thought waiting would be the answer. Now I have to wait until spring again. And I do know that the...
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    Egg production, Internal laying and when is it time??

    My head is spinning at this point after reading all the postings about Egg Yolk Peritonitis and internal laying leading up to this posting ... I am so sorry for everyone's losses... I too have suspected that I have a problem within our flock of (14) 2-1/2 yr old hens. This is a new adventure...
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    Trimming Roosters Spurs

    Before I watch that video--are they TRIMMING the nails or are they surgically removing the spurs? I'm not gonna watch if the latter (all this surgery w/out anesthesia is really pretty sick). But if it's trimming I need to see that. I did watch the video and the way he does it, the rooster did...
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    Need help with this please (moved to Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying)

    Thanks for the bumps and the information I wasn't too sure if it could be posted into 2 forums at the same time. I will have to check that out. Currently we have BO, BR, EE and Isa Brns and while their eggs are all different it is still hard to tell which ones of each breed are laying...
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    Need help with this please (moved to Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying)

    My head is spinning at this point after reading all the postings about Egg Yolk Peritonitis and internal laying leading up to this posting ... I am so sorry for everyone's losses... I too have suspected that I have a problem within our flock of (14) 2-1/2 yr old hens. This is a new adventure...
  13. Babe77

    How many years of laying?

    this may help... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=423023
  14. Babe77

    3 yr old Hen stumbling around

    thank you
  15. Babe77

    3 yr old Hen stumbling around

    Thank you... What would I be looking for in her eyes that would tell me it could be a head injury?
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    3 yr old Hen stumbling around

    We have a 3 yr old B. Rock who started stumbling 3 days ago with the occasional falling over. We checked her over and can not see anything else wrong with her. She is in with 14 other chickens and no sign with the others. The weather here is mild in the 70 so I don't believe it is weather...
  17. Babe77

    BO's feathers gone around their butt!

    bump....
  18. Babe77

    What is happening! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!

    Quote: I think it looks like yawning, but happens 3-4 times in succession
  19. Babe77

    Bumblefoot surgery, what is this new area ??

    dawg... that is exactly what we did last night but nothing but blood came out. So squeeze up around the top area that appears to be a previous one, squeezing it down towards the open hole? Should the hubby continue to scrape the inside of existing hole up towards then top area to try to...
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    Bumblefoot surgery, what is this new area ??

    what I also should have said is that that area was there on Sunday prior to us doing the 1st surgery (look at the 1st picture with the blue vetwrap just before wrapping it up) The soaking we have done was with the Epsom salts in warm water for about 10 min. On Sunday we dug out some gunk but...
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