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    Nest box for a broody

    Here's the situation. I have an a-frame portable chicken coop with a small nest place in the top so it's off the ground pretty high. My hen is broody and I really want her to hatch some babies. I've been reading about where or what type of nest box to move her to so she can be ground level...
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    How to help chickens survive the HEAT?!?!

    This is the second summer in a row that I have lost hens to heat! The temp is over 100 with heat index around 110!! Other than putting ice in their water, providing shade and a fan - is there something else I can do?? Where/how do you provide them a place to lay in heat like this? I do the...
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    Predator mystery/ coyote question

    So I have a little bit of a mystery.. or maybe just a question about coyotes. lol A little first about my coop: I have a portable a-frame coop that only houses 2 chickens. One night last week I went out to turn on the heat lamp after dark and noticed a hole in the chicken wire of the run...
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    Java breed basics?

    I'm trying to find info about Java chickens. There doesn't seem to be a lot on the internet just by googling. And I have run across a couple threads on here about them, but they are really hard to search through! I'm wanting to know the basics about the breed - how good of layers they are...
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    buying pullets from two different places?

    I recently bought two chickens for my backyard coop and that's really all I have room for. But now I am pretty sure one of them is a cockerel instead of a pullet so I am going to have to get rid of it. My question is, is it ok for me to keep the other one and go get a second pullet from a...
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    Pullet or Cockerel - opinion please!

    So I'm fairly new to keeping chickens and in the past I've only had full grown already laying hens. This is my first attempt at buying pullets. But I'm starting to think my gal may be a guy. It's a Rhode Island Red approx. 10 weeks old. I've been doing lots of researching online and here's...
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