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    Troubled layer

    Hi all, I have a white rock that just turned 5 months old. She started laying about a week ago. She laid 2 days straight, skipped a day, laid again, then stopped. She hasn't laid in 3 or 4 days now. She still nests for an hour or more each day and pushes other chickens out of the nest boxes...
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    Flattening hardware cloth?

    Anyone have any tips for flattening hardware cloth, especially those last few feet on a roll. I'm tired of tearing up my hands and arms when this stuff rolls back up on itself.
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    They survived just fine...

    After much hand-wringing and reading recommendations both for and against my plan, I moved my 5 week old chicks out of the basement and into their unheated coop. They spent their first night outside in an unheated coop with the temperature dropping down to 48 degrees F, and you know what? They...
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    Chicken-related idioms, sayings and phrases.

    You can tell how important something is to a given group of people by how many words or phases they have related to that something. How many chicken-related phrases or sayings can you come up with? Here are a few to get this started: 1. Establishing a pecking order. 2. He's flown the coop...
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    Please help identify these chicks.

    Hello. I have 5 chicks that are now 4+ weeks old. I don't know much about different breeds or gender identification as such a young age. I ordered females, so I assume them all are. Are my breed and gender assumptions correct? Barred Rock or a Dominque? Her tail feathers are the least...
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    Food and water in coop or run or both?

    Do I need to have food and water available inside the coop? Or is is sufficient to have it out in the run? Do chickens need to eat and drink at night when they are suppose to be sleeping in the coop?
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    New things to try?

    The chicks are 3+ weeks old now. I'm trying to slowly introduce them to a variety of different things to eat but having little luck so far. Here's what I've tried: 1. Watermelon - Turned their noses up at it. 2. Flax seeds - Like it. Will eat a seed or two. 3. Wheat germ - Like it. 4...
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    What a motley crew. Warning: contains baby pictures

    I just received these fuzzy butts two weeks ago and they are growing up fast. Each is the size of my fist already. The cuteness factor is starting to wear off. Everyday they have a new sprout of feathers. Jane's tail feathers are getting very long. Mercedes has feathers coming in along...
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    Dominance Dance?

    My chicks are now 2 weeks old. For the past couple of days they have been engaging each other in a strange dance. They charge each other with wings flapping and bump chests and then eye each down. Or they flap, fly and land on some unsuspecting member usually when their back is turned...
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    Self-locking, automatic chicken coop door.

    Here's a link to a video for a self-locking, automatic chicken coop door that I designed and built for my new coop. It will be connected to an X10 controller that will open and close the door on a schedule. I will also be able to manually open and close the door anywhere in the world using my...
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    Baby chick toys?

    My chicks are about 5 days old now. They are extremely curious and love anything new that I put in their environment. First I put one of the straw mats from their shipping box on top of the paper towels. They all climbed on it and immediately went to sleep. They continue to sleep there and...
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    My urban coop [Chickens moved in! Updates on page 6]

    I've started working on my coop that will sit beside my garage. I have a small city lot, so not a lot of room to work with. The coop is 6 feet wide by 3 feet deep (18 sq ft) It has external nest boxes 14 inches deep by 3 feet long (another 3+ square feet). The coop interior is about 5 feet...
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    Help with breed identification? (photos)

    My five baby girls arrived yesterday. Being brand new to all of this I don't know what breed they are except that they are all suppose to be of the following: Rhode Island Red New Hampshire Red Red Star Speckled Sussex Dark Cornish Light Brahma Australorp Buff Orpington Dominique Barred...
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