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  1. elsiebb

    how to get them back to the egg box?

    My six layers took a break for the month of December. Since no one was laying, I took the nest boxes out to stop my three young birds from sleeping in them. That worked and everyone is now roosting. Before I could get the nest boxes back in the coop one of my girls started laying again. Found an...
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    integrating new chickens

    I have six pullets that have been together since April. Four were day olds when we got them 4/2. The other two were 8 weeks old when we got them 4/10. They've been living together since late May and get along just fine. I got three more in September that were a month old. I quarantined the young...
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    gender?

    Just got this 6 week old Appenzeller Spitzhauben. I was told its a she but it's pretty aggressive and I'm not so sure. What do you think?
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    broody already?

    I have a hen that is 28 weeks old. She started laying in late July. This weekend she started staying in the nest box. She was there at 6pm last night, still at 9pm. Still there this morning when I opened the henhouse door to let them all out to the run. I pushed her out and she went down and ate...
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    can I use 2x3s?

    I am building a new, bigger coop for my growing flock. I am shamelessly copying todtrac's gorgeous design. Is there any reason why I should not use 2x3's instead of 2x4's for the walls and roof framing? I've used 4x4 posts and 2x4's for the floor framing. My run is made of 2x3's - just...
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    pullet can't stand up

    Just went out to the coop and one of my 21 week barred rocks was laying askew in a corner. She didn't come running when I tossed scratch for the flock (we have 7) and didn't move when I came over (they all usually scatter). She can't stand up and it seems to be her right leg. She got out of the...
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    doing a little free-ranging

    We let the girls out in the yard tonight. Couldn't stay away from the strawberry plants.
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    Today's project

    Went from this, to this
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    Chicks won't go to bed

    I have two 14 week and five 7 week old chicks. They are all happily outside in their coop together but none of them are going up the ramp into the hen house at night. Each night I have to go collect them from under the house and put them up inside. Tonight when I moved one of the older ones up...
  10. elsiebb

    New here

    Greetings from the Willamette Valley! We got our first chicks on April 3rd and I have been reading BYC posts daily ever since. We have a Buff Orpington, a Golden Laced Wyandot, an Ameraucana, a Red Sussex, and an Australorp. They are doing great! We went to the feed store in March and I let each...
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