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    Coop in a Kennel

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    HELP! Supplemental Heat Question

    I have chicks that are fully feathered out, they will be 5 weeks old this Monday. The brooder is on an unheated uninsulated enclosed porch with a heat lamp. I have the heat lamp keep one corner of the brooder at about 72 degrees. I have read that I can take off the supplemental heat at 5 weeks...
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    Name the Breed?

    I got a meal maker with my order from Meyer Hatchery. She is not the same as any of the others I got. Any ideas? I was guessing Rhode Island Red. The two above are at one week old This is now at 3 weeks old.
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    Brooder Pics and Video

    This is what I started with. A box from the dog kennel that I purchased that I will be using for the chicken enclosure. It happened to fit the rabbit play yard (the blue wire enclosure) perfectly. I found that this was a work in progress. I started with some pvc as you can see for low perches...
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    Meyers Hatchery Meal Maker ?

    I got a few new chicks and I am having a hard time identifying the Meal Maker. I ordered 1 Buff Orphinington, 1 Delaware, 2 Easter Eggers, 2 Welsummers and I got a Meal Maker. The Orpington and Delaware are easy enough. I can clearly see two EE with muffs, and 2 that I am assuming are Welsumers...
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    Must See.. Small Portable Tractor Coop, Introduce New Hen / Chicken Coop, Isolation Coop.. its a Che

    I needed an isolation coop yesterday for a wet chicken to finish drying off and so I could observe her and I really didn't just want to put her in a dog kennel. She was acting fine so I didn't want to put her in chicken jail I just wanted her isolated so I could watch her for a while. I put this...
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    ??? Laying soon?

    I have been waiting and waiting and waiting and today I heard my chickens making a loud racket. They were cackling like I have never heard. When I went out to check on them I saw three of the 4 out side and they were clucking like never before. I got scared for a second and went to find number...
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    My Coop Has Evolved.

    My first coop The current coop.. This coop now has fencing around the shelter frame.
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    Loving the sand in the run and coop

    I was debating for a while what to put in the run now that the grass has been eaten. I went with sand after much reading in these forums. I LOVE IT! It has rained for the last week straight bad pouring rain. The sand is damp but its not muddy and doesnt stick and the girls come out in it unlike...
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    Update on pullet introduction

    I am happy to tell you that all 4 pullets are roosting inside the coop together. I introduced my new two pullets to the existing two by putting an old coop next to the new one for 4 days. The first two days no access to each other. The third day I opened up the runs to connect them and there...
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    Hen Introduction Video

    Here is the video of the last three days of new coop set up with hen introduction.
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    New Coop and New Girls

    I have two 16 week pullets in a coop right now. Tomorrow I am having a new coop and two more 16 week pullets from the same place I got my original girls from 4 weeks ago. I will have two coops for a week, then I have a buyer for my old coop. I am wondering a few things. If I put the coops...
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    Poop

    JennsPeeps said: There are a couple different types of chicken poo: 1. normal/typical - it's firm, brown with white urea (bird "pee") on it, and looks like it was excreted through a round nozzle 2. cecal - stinky, stinky, stinky! This is runny and you will know it when you see it. OMG it...
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    Help/Advise Chicken lethargic wont stand up.

    My smallest hen (Ameruacana) between (12-15 weeks old, they said she was 9 wks when I got her but she has always been so much smaller than the other two I thought they were just wrong, there must of been 50 pullets in there when I got them) she is the one that seems to get picked on by the big...
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    Soy and Corn? Whole Grain Layer Feed

    I have to much waste with crumbles and my girls are close to laying age. I was thinking of going with the Scratch and Peck Whole Grain Layer Feed. They have a soy free and a corn and soy free. Tell me why would I avoid corn in the feed? It is more expensive then the pellets but I dont like the...
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    Chicken Talk

    Do chickens talk? I swear when I go out in the morning and I hear them cackling to themselves its a totally different sound then when they know Im coming or when they know Im watching them. It turns into more of an honk then a cluck and if I do not bring a treat they get kind of loud about it...
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    Please tell me to stop

    Please tell me to stop shopping for chicken coops. Please tell me this is enough room for my 3 hens. I love having chickens. I mean obsession! If they broke up with me I would stalk them, kind of love. I am constantly looking for new and improved coops and ideas and feeding and dust bath etc...
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    Dealing with the run

    Im not sure how to deal with ground in the run area. We have the coop on the grass area and there is a bare area that is usually moist. (Its washington it rains a lot) So The ground is getting a bit yucky. I have used the hose and power nozzle in the past to kind of wash the poop and debris away...
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    PVC Run Completed

    I am so proud of myself. The top opens up and if you look close against the wood of the coop you can see the blue wire door that I made from a panel of an old dog play pen. So I can close it up and move it around the yard while I am gardening or enjoying the weather. I am going to move the patio...
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    My chickens could be the cookoo for coco puff next star

    My 13 week old girls have finally realized I am the one who comes bearing treats. When I go out to open the coop and check them in the morning they now get a handful of scratch in the run. They all but backflip in excitement. The two bigger ones push the little one away. She runs in the coop and...
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