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  1. NYcue

    should i remove the roost in the run when the weather is freezing?

    I have an enclosed secured run with a roost. I also have a roost in the coop house. The temperature where i live has begun to drop to below 32 degrees at night but my 4 barred rocks still prefer to sleep in the roost outside. Should i remove the roost in the run to force them to sleep in the...
  2. NYcue

    Is this normal... to begin laying again in the Winter?

    I have 4 Barred Rocks. Back in October my girls stopped laying eggs. I don't keep a light in their coop as I prefer to allow the girls to have the Winter off. Yesterday I was doing some additional work on the run to seal it up as the temperature was predicted to drop to 0 degrees but much...
  3. NYcue

    Discolored eggs

    I have 4 Barred Rocks. I suspect that one of them (which is smaller than the other 3) is producing many times but not all the time... small white eggs and sometimes the egg is of a weird shape. All the other eggs are brown in color and decent size. Should I be concerned?
  4. NYcue

    My DIY automatic chicken POP door opener/closer

    I wanted to share with you my DIY automatic coop door opener/closer and hopefully get some feedback. But first I think I should begin with some background information to explain why I built my own opener. I purchased four Barred Rocks in March/2012. The original plan was to use a...
  5. NYcue

    can you use a de-icer in a hanging metal waterer?

    Being my first Winter with the chicks... Water has been on my mind. I have a double-wall 3 gallon metal waterer. I really don't want to use those tin-pan heaters and also I don't want to put the waterer in the coop. What I would really like is to hang the waterer instead of placing it on a...
  6. NYcue

    How do I know when it's time to move new chicks from garage to coop?

    I purchased 4 barred rocks 5 weeks ago. Currently this little family is located in large container in my garage in upstate NY. The temperature in my garage averages between 65 and 70 degrees and I do have a heat lamp above the container. The chicks are just about all feathered out but the...
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