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    Where can I add more ventilation in my coop? Pics included.

    Hi everyone. I would like to ventilate my coop a bit more before winter hits. Northern Minnesota here. Attached are pictures of my coop, which houses 30 wonderful birds. I thought about putting in a roof vent or two, but with the way my coop is set up, the drafts from the vents would hit the...
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    Rooster acting weird/antisocial?

    Hi everyone. I have a polish rooster who has been acting funny for the past 36 hours. Usually he is quite social and likes to be around the other chickens, but last night and today he has been keeping himself separate from everyone. He wasn't on the roost with the others when I checked on him...
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    Ideas for top of chicken run?

    Hello all. I am in the finishing stages of my chicken run, and need ideas for supporting the netting on the roof. My original idea was to use lumber for my run and have it be permanent, but our run is so big (we have 30 birds) the costs for lumber would have wound up being well over $1000...
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    When can my chicks eat crickets?

    My chicks are a week old, I thought it would be fun to toss a few crickets into the brooder. At what point is it safe to have them eat something other than starter feed?
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    Help! First batch of chicks dying one by one.

    Hello all. We ordered a batch of 25 chicks from Sandhill Preservation and got them shipped to us Thursday morning. They sent us 28. Two died during shipping, and since then 3 more have died as well. I'm not sure where we are going wrong, or if we can do something else to save them. Here's the...
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