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  1. ShannonO

    Help with diagnosis: molt, parasite, or other? Pics inside

    Thank you all for the replies. I feel better now. At least I can direct my stress and worry toward "why do chickens molt early." :p
  2. ShannonO

    Help with diagnosis: molt, parasite, or other? Pics inside

    I have a flock of 10. They are 7.5 months of varying breeds. Recently, a few looked a little ruffled. Today I discovered one is missing neck feathers and two are missing feathers around their faces. A couple others look scruffy around their necks and body, but only a little bit. After a quick...
  3. ShannonO

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Last night I cleared their feeder so no bugs would be attracted over night. Today I fed the FF, and they ran to it so I left. When I came back about 10 min later they were chatty and their crops not full, but no one was eating. My FF smells it's normal sweet-sour, and the only different I can...
  4. ShannonO

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Thanks for your reply. I had been feeding them approximately like that (2x 20min a day), until two days ago when I overfed, I guess. Do you offer dry as well or only FF? I have dry out there right now because I was worried they hadn't eaten enough. But that's going to make the problem worse...
  5. ShannonO

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    My FF trough has attracted gnats. My chicks at 6 weeks and have been in the coop eating FF 2xday for two weeks. Yesterday they didn't eat their food (and yesterday was a very hot day). Today I relized the trough is full of gnats (fruit flies)? I dumped that food out, cleaned the trough...
  6. ShannonO

    Light Brahma-6 weeks

    Updated? I'm trying to determine this 6.5 week old's gender.
  7. ShannonO

    Fermented feed feeder

    I will do this. But, I also want to search for an option where I can leave the coop be without monitoring for a day to three days. More likely than not, I'll set up a dry feeder.
  8. ShannonO

    Fermented feed feeder

    Subscribing and bumping. Been feeding exclusively FF with six week old chickens and looking to prepare for vacation without switching to dry. Looks like there no solution that person love yet, but I have hopes.
  9. ShannonO

    Chickens won't go in coop at night!!!

    Tonight marks the ninth night of my birds in their run/coops combo. After pouring over this thread, and eight nights of putting the chicks in their henhouse each night, THEY WENT IN ON THEIR OWN! Sweet victory! Hooray!
  10. ShannonO

    Light Brahma not feathering like others. Is something wrong?

    Thanks for the reply! I wasn't worried til I started googling for pics of roos and found fully feathered 5-week olds. :) They're getting southern states starter crumbles, fermented, plus whatever crawls into their run. We have tossed some chickweed in in the last three days.
  11. ShannonO

    Light Brahma not feathering like others. Is something wrong?

    I was checking out threads of LBs to see whether his is a boy or a girl, and realized s/he is not feathering in like the pics I found if similar-aged LBs. s/he has always been behind my other 10, but I assumed it was a breed difference. Any problem with my 5week old': feathers here? Buff...
  12. ShannonO

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    No gnat, critter, or other issues? I'd like to ferment outside but am worried about freeloaders!
  13. ShannonO

    GREAT NEWS in Montgomery County, MD!

    I am trying to find out whether it is against code to house a rooster in my coop/run. Mine is set back 100' from dwellings and 25' from setbacks. I am unclear whether the "no roosters" clause refers only to pet keeping in closer quarters, I believe I am zoned R90?
  14. ShannonO

    MARYLAND THREAD!

    I have a light Brahma rooster from SS that was supposed to be a white leghorn pullet (naive me didn't notice the wispy down on his day-old legs!). Since we will be down at least one and have no white eggs, 8 should definitely go get four more, right!?! ;) I wrote up and posted my feeder...
  15. ShannonO

    Hanging PVC feeder for fermented feed with baffle

    I recently moved my first-ever chicken flock to their outdoor coop/run. They are 4 weeks old. I wanted to continue to feed fermented crumbles but needed a feeder that would work as my chicks grow out of the red chick feeder trough, and because they fill it with litter and overturn it every day...
  16. ShannonO

    MARYLAND THREAD!

    Easy once I found the right tools? Started with table saw but realized the blade isn't the right depth. Cut to length with shop saw. Ended up cutting the length cuts with a jig saw. Setup was crucial, with sawhorses and quick clamps.
  17. ShannonO

    MARYLAND THREAD!

    I discovered a piece of 4" PVC so I ended up making this:
  18. ShannonO

    The stowaway brooder. (PIC Heavy)

    Nicely done!
  19. ShannonO

    MARYLAND THREAD!

    Cleaning up the brooder box and putting it on Craigslist. It was awesome but I will brood outdoors in the big coop in the future. (4'x2'x2' plywood box with vinyl floor plus framed wire top! Free for pickup!) Trekking to the coop to check on the girls in their second day outdoors. The LOVE it...
  20. ShannonO

    Hidden Forest Coop

    When you used the divider to merge the new chicks, did you brood them outside?
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