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    Pine shavings vs hemp bedding

    I use exclusively shredded hemp in the coop itself, with poop boards under the roost and PDZ on them for sifting. I tried hemp on the poop boards at first but it doesn’t sift that well and I was wasting a lot. PDZ sifts like sand and it’s EASY to keep the poop boards clean. The sifted poop goes...
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    Deep Litter Method?

    Yes. I use everything I can get my hands on - wood chips, crushed leaves, grass clippings, shredded hemp, shredded office paper, pine needles. Works great, breaks down over time and you just occasionally add more of whatever you’ve got. Fresh wood chips smell great too.
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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    Sorry I don’t know about Shelbyville ordinances. I know someone who has chickens there but I don’t know if she’s in the city limits or not. I live in Centerville.
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    When to turn new chicks in with hens?

    The young ones are actually Cuckoo Marans. I wasn’t aware that Marans were notorious for pecking.
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    When to turn new chicks in with hens?

    Thanks, everyone! I will set up some low structures and turn them in with the big girls this weekend!
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    When to turn new chicks in with hens?

    The chicks are good sized, 7 weeks old now. They have been WITH the hens but separated by wire for about 5 weeks. Are they big enough to mingle with the 5 hens? I will arrange some places where they can hide/get away from the hens, like firewood constructs, boards, pallets, etc., that the hens...
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    Best Coop Bedding? (No Poop Boards in Coop)

    In looking at your pictures, is that the roost at the far end high up over the pop door? If so, why couldn’t you put a poop board under it? I realize there is a window on one side, but The board could be supported with something like shelf brackets that could attach to the end wall. If the...
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    Hemp mix for bedding

    I have hemp in the coop and I agree with TP2 - dry and fluffy, no smell, no dust. I use a poop board so there’s not much poop in the bedding, but what’s there is dry and simple to scoop out every few days.
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    How to bond with my chicks?

    I’m not going to be much help here. My Dominique chicks are ridiculously tame. They run up to me when I come into the run and WANT me to pick them up. But I’ve had them since they were 1 day old and I set the brooder up so I would never come to them from above. However they will scatter if I’m...
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    Best Coop Bedding? (No Poop Boards in Coop)

    I use shredded hemp in the coop and a poop board with PDZ. I sift the board about every 3-4 days - tales 5 minutes - and the poops I fling onto my compost pile. The coop stays completely dry and smells fresh. My covered run is deep litter - leaves, pine needles, straw, hemp, grass clippings...
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    Keeping birds out of coop and run

    Just FYI my sister used pvc pipe to arch over her (large) run to support bird netting. She regrets this because over the years the pvc has sagged and kind of warped. Not too attractive, but sort of still does the job. Possibly if she had used a larger diameter it would have held up better. Just...
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    help! i don’t know if i should be feeding my chicks this!

    As I understand it, you can continue to feed them unmedicated chick starter/grower until they are ready for layer feed. All Flock or Flock Raiser is also suitable before they are laying. Not sure when you can start giving them scratch - I believe it’s just considered a treat.
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    Chicks imprinting on their enclosure?

    I transitioned my chicks to the coop by putting the whole brooder in the coop with the brooder door fastened open. They were so young it was as if the brooder was a little coop and the coop was their run. I gradually moved food and water out from the brooder into the coop. Finally I took the...
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    Things you've learned while building your coop...

    I’m in a heavily wooded area in the south too. If you’re talking about how the metal ridges cause a small gap opening about every foot that cannot be closed with wood - I stuffed the ones that led into the coop itself with wadded-up hardware cloth scraps (to keep mice from chewing through) and...
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    Challenge: Hatching The Impossible!!!!!

    LOL we really need to get a life.
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    Challenge: Hatching The Impossible!!!!!

    I just did it too. Read all bazillion comments. GAW. I thought initially that this was an old thread and that I would soon find out how it all worked out, then partway through I realized that it is still ongoing. And now I’m going to have to wait like everybody else! Go Jelly Bean! He/she is...
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    Moving day

    I don’t put food or water in the coop anymore, just in the run. My chicks are 2 months old now and they blast out of the coop each morning when I open the pop door around 7:00 AM LOL. But when I first put them in the coop when they were very young I had food and water in there, as I kept the pop...
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    Going Away

    Actually she said they would be gone one day two nights, not 3 days.
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    What is going on with my eggs?

    Excellent video!
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    when do you transition to layer feed?

    Thanks, RoosterML and GC-Raptor! That simplifies it a lot!
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