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    Chicken not eating... lost a lot of weight, please help!

    Hazel is my favourite, I know you aren't meant to have them but she is. She is the buff in my profile picture. She is five years old and we hand raised her from a chick, she hatched a clutch and after a false start was the most devoted mama and stayed with her chicks for a very long time...
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    This or this or both or something else? Red mites, maybe more.

    I have six chickens so I don't want to buy a huge amount of stuff I'm not going to use. They seem happy, are laying well, eating, sleeping etc but I found a red mite when I was checking the coop the other day so I figure there are far more elsewhere. They haven't been treated for anything else...
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    Our poor sweet EE Lydia

    Two years ago we bought four little fluffy chicks. We rehomed one because she was not getting along with the others and apparently has a lovely life strolling around a rose garden bossing two other chickens around. We added two more grown chickens later to make five. Out of our five Lydia...
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    Emergency - oh crap I ran out of food - homemade feed

    I don't have the space to store extra bags and recently we have had a problem with pests eating chicken food at night. Actually it could be our black lab/BC cross who is eternally hungry. Yesterday we ran out of food and I couldn't get to the store. So I'm looking around my kitchen for...
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    Anyone used stainless steel zip ties?

    I found them at our local ACE but it looks like a bunch of places have them. I just tried one and it worked great.
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    Can I mail non fertile eggs?

    My son wants to send his friend in WA four of our non hatching eggs. We are in CA. Can we do this? How? Any rules and regs?
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    Happy Belated Valentines to Me!

    Don't know where to put this! I read the forum titles and still can't figure out the proper place. It isn't really OT because it is chickeny, it is family because DH bought them as a gift, but it doesn't seem to fit with the other family type of threads. So, I was away visiting a college with...
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    Lydia is mean

    She hogs the nest and if someone else gets in an lays she stands waiting for them to be done and then ousts them as they are standing looking a little shocked. She yells at any other hen trying to get to the nest to lay. She pecks all the other hens, not just 'get out of my way you serf' sort...
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    Growing frames - chickens just pull whole pieces out

    Does that mean I need to keep resowing it constantly? If so that is going to be a giant pain. At first they nibbled off the top little bit, now they have learned to grab and pull and a four inch piece comes out. I can't dig it deeper because there is wire below. Oh it is wheat that is in there...
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    Creamy pink egg -- which girl could it be?

    at least I think that is the colour, it isn't white and is paler than our brown shop eggs. I think it would be described as pink or pale beige. Our EE laid our first and second eggs (very blue) and the third appeared late this afternoon. Possible culprits... 1) Ms Delia Chickadee, SLW...
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    What have you bought that is really useful?

    I thought this might be a helpful thread, especially if you have links or sources. What do you find useful? I really like these buckets I bought at Walmart that have a locking lid. My ladies have tried to perch on it and haven't managed yet so I can keep it in the yard for storing treats. I...
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    Nipple / Cup waterer made from tubing and PVC

    I have made one of these with nipples and I'm making one with cups. Ms Jellybean asked for help making one so I took pictures... a lot of pictures! This is by no means the only way to make these, I'm sure others have found cheaper or easier or different ways of making them. This is how I...
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    Chooks on holiday!

    Our chickens are going on holiday! Our friends have offered to look after them while we are away and to save them having to run all over kingdom come looking after them we decided to take them to our friends. Problem is though that our friend's gate is less than 3ft wide and not terribly tall...
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    injured swollen foot

    I accidentally hurt lydia (I think she is about 8 weeks) , I dropped something heavy on her foot it is really swollen and she won't put any weight on it. I tried putting her back in our bathtub brooder with one of our chicks but she kept bumping into her and making her move and she got all...
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    Easy day run

    I bought one of these in size 48" from out local feed store (cost more than here!) http://www.petmountain.com/product/dog-exercise-pens/11442-105241/precision-pet-silver-choice-play-yard-exercise-pen-sxp-model.html Then I bought two roof panels (which are the same as two side panels clipped...
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    Chickadee or chickadude? Plus photos of the others

    Reason #3751 of why chickens are funny AKA it is hard to take close ups of chickens! This is the one I think may be male...?? (can try and take closer pictures but s/he is more squirrely than the others) S/he took much longer to get feathers, especially tail feathers than the others. Got...
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    Think my ??5-7wk old?? chicks may have gape

    We have been having unseasonably hot (for us -- we are in coastal San Diego) weather here and our chicks are in our bathtub where there isn't much breeze. I thought they were hot so we put a small fan pointing down into one end of the tub and gave them ice and watermelon. However, I checked...
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    Treats for older chicks -- what do yours like?

    Ours are coming up for a month and five weeks (I think) and are getting some treats. They often take a couple of tries (more than one day) before they decide on whether they like it. Favourites so far seem to be jellified chia seeds (a riot in the coop) and red cabbage sprouts -- ditto. A...
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    Should you paint your roost?

    I have 2x3s on their sides and I've sanded them smooth. Should I paint them?
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    Want to know my biggest tip for coop building? + purple progress pics

    The one thing I wish I had known before I started? Don't paint it. Seriously, don't. Stain or varnish it if you want. If you have designed a coop that has a lot of contrasting pretty (and functional) trim painting it will quadruple your time. If you combine it with an open coop or run...
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