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    Hen limping, legs covered in something white; what's going on?

    I should have taken a picture today, but it didn't dawn on me until right now. My Japanese Banty has been limping for a couple of weeks. My husband told me about it when he first noticed, but my pregnant brain forgot within seconds...anyway, I noticed the limp today. She seems perfectly...
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    I have no idea what to feed my chickens!

    Insert embarrassed face here... We were given our Japanese hen as a gift, and she came with a bag of mash (?), so I haven't had to worry about buying her food. The bag is almost empty, so I'm heading over to the feed store today to buy something. I know what she can have for treats, but I...
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    If you live in Norco, on the corner of Corona and Third...

    Can you please pm me? Weird request, I know! I'm wondering if this person is on BYC...if you are, you live in my DH's grandparents' old house, and I was checkin' out your chicken coop a couple of hours ago (in the dark, from my car). I want to know what's up with your chickens sleeping on top...
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    Here are some pictures of my design, and some info. Feedback, please!

    DH and I are really trying to make something out of nothing here, lol. He's doing all of the building; I'm just the one bringing him all of the information from the internet, and demanding that he build me a coop! We have NO building/design/carpentry experience, so this is quite an adventure...
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    Some nest box questions

    -How big do my nest boxes need to be? -Do they need to be a considerable distance from the ground? -Can they be open in the front and the back?
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    My chicken sounds like a goose

    That's the only way I can describe the noises I'm hearing. Is this a sign that "she" is going to be a rooster?
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    Does my coop need a floor?

    Sorry for asking ten thousand questions today! I still feel soooo lost with all of this. My coop is on the ground; do I need to have an official floor, or can it just be the earth?
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    Another question- roost, in relation to nest boxes?

    We're planning on using an old wooden electronic cabinet as a small coop. It's 3.5'x2'x1.5x. Where do we put the roost, and where do we put the boxes? This is for 3 bantams and a Japanese.
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    How much room for each chicken?

    I know that I've read this like twenty times here, but I can't seem to remember what I read. How much room do I need in the coop for each chicken? It's warm here most of the year, only gets below freezing a couple of nights in Dec/Jan, and we don't get tons of rain. We do get hot winds in the...
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    If my chickens are going to be pastured, do they need a run?

    Okay, this is probably a really dumb question, but I'm really new to this, so please bare with me. We have a large (for the suburbs) area that we are going to pasture our chickens in. We live on 1/3 acre, and about 1/4 of that is going to be just for the chickens, so I guess that's...
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    How to prevent drafts?

    DH and I are building a coop this week, so I'm doing tons of reading here. I've seen a lot about preventing drafts, but I think I'm a little stumped on what that means for me...it doesn't typically get incredibly cold here (although, it did get down to the 30s at night last month, which is...
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    buying chicks wen i can't have roosters...bad idea?

    i'm buying some four w/o bantams from a friend of a friend this week. we can't have roosters here (actually, we can't legally have chickens at all, but we're joining the illegal chicken revolution; we just don't want to push it with roosters!), so i'll have to sell them if any turn out to be...
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    Hello from California!

    Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum, and very new to raising chickens. We currently have a seven-week-old Japanese hen (okay, we don't really know if she's a hen, but we just keep saying hen, and praying that's what she is!), named Slink (my three-year-old came up with that), and next week we'll...
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