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  1. sarahsunshine

    Newbie on hatching

    Well, last year I got the chicken fever. This year I'm going serious! So we are moving to Vancouver Island in April/May, and I am looking into getting chickens. Last year we got some 4 week old broilers (that ended up being more like Leghorns), 5 1yo Leghorn layers, and 2 ISA brown layers...
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    Chicken chasing at it's grandest!

    For my 3yo's birthday yesterday, we moved our coop and 2 chickens to the neighbour's. It was a great time that I wanted to share: The chase is on!!!! My 4yo finally caught her with help from our good ol' girl Indy! The 3yo is a natural - he just picked them up perfectly every time, and...
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    Help planning winter coop design. What do chickens need in winter?

    We need to make a winter chicken coop, and we live in Central Alberta. We have COLD weather, frequently getting a couple weeks straight of high -25C(-15f), and -40C/f (doesn’t matter!). This last summer we got 7 layers and 5 more female ‘broilers’ that look to actually be white leghorns and...
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    Should I be concerned?

    About 3 weeks ago I bought 7 layers (from the same flock) – 5 are white leghorns that are about 2 years old, and 2 are about 9 month old ISA Browns. The two browns are beautiful at all hours, have fluffy bums, and wonderfully curious and friendly. All of the leghorns seem somewhat ratty...
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    New to chickens. Chicken with wet butt, bloody egg, bare feathers, and pale combs

    Hi All, I am new to chickens. We bought several bout 2.5 weeks ago and boy are they fun! We have 12 eight week old ‘broilers’ (but I think they are a white Heinz 57), and 7 layers – 5 White leghorns about 2 years old, and 2 10month old ISA Browns. For the past 1.5 weeks I was giving them all...
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    Soaked feed, and fermented feed - the switch!

    Amazing! So I realized that I hadn’t been feeding our chickens a full balanced diet, and found a whole bunch of information on soaked and fermented feed. So I immediately switched them over to a grower feed, with calcium available. Yesterday morning I got a bucket and soaked some feed. Last...
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    What type of Broilers are there?

    PHOTOS BELLOW - Post #5 I received some ‘broilers’ from some people who got them from their child’s elementary school class that hatched some chicks. I have no idea what kind they are, but they are white, 7 are roosters, and 5 hens. They are good looking birds, and at 7 weeks only slightly...
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    One chicken won't go in the coop... any design change suggestions?

    Background: My husband built a run/coop for our 7 laying hens. He insisted on chicken wire, though I wanted hardware cloth. It is built as a 5’x10’ A-frame (50sqft = about 7’/chicken). The coop is the upper half of half the run, with dimensions of 3’8”x5’x24” tall (18.75sqft) with two nest...
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    Trying to put together ‘organic’ feed from leftovers

    I’m brand new to chickens and chicken forums, so if there are resource sites you can point me that will help answer my questions, I would be greatful! Last Friday we got 12 6-week old broilers, and 7 laying hens (5white leghorns, and 2 ISA Browns) from a family who has to move...
  10. sarahsunshine

    Canadian Chicken Newb! Any other KAnucks?

    Hi All – I’m brand new to chickens and chicken forums, though not a stranger to forums in general. We’ve purchased a piece of land, and want to go over to be more self-sustainable and less factory farm and GMO dependent. Our first foray was the vegetable garden, and now we are starting...
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