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  1. unclejohn

    Pete the Pirate visits my chickens!

    Thought you fellow chicken lovers might enjoy this :)
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    40 hens laying only 2-4 eggs per day this winter??? please help!

    So my hens were laying only about 16-23 eggs per day. Even though there are 40 of them. But then a series of events happened and now I'm down to 2-4 per day. This is driving me nuts! All in the same week I got a new puppy, who I bring with me into the coop because I want to train him to be...
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    best place to buy affordable incubator?

    Where is a good place to buy an incubator online? preferably canada ,but usa works too. I found these on ebay..are they any good? http://www.ebay.ca/itm/EDWARD-Clear-Bottom-Chicken-Egg-Incubator-Beware-of-Imitators-/272055113412?hash=item3f57bf96c4:g:WFYAAOSwqu9U2mtU
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    hens still not laying!! what am i doing wrong?

    Okay so last fall just before winter, my new hens were all starting to lay, then my neighbors dogs came and killed two chickens. after that egg production dropped like crazy. I posted several posts on here and couldn't get them to lay. Eventually i figured out that 24 hour light wasnt good for...
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    what can i apply to stop feather picking?

    a few of my birds have been pecking out their own and each others feathers over winter, and most have stopped now that it's spring but i'd like to deter the few that still are. what household items can i apply to deter them? I don't want to have to go and buy some fancy expensive stuff from...
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    feather pickers! how do i stop them?

    So last year i got ten hens and they all came to me in the spring. the farmer told me that they had bare backs because they were cooped up all winter and that's just what they do. That spring I also hatched out 15 chicks from those same hens. In the fall, and early winter, those girls suddenly...
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    chicks starting to hatch, coming out all crusty!?

    So on day 22 now and last night one chick hatched, there are several pips and a lot of wobbling egg. (40 eggs in total in there) anyways the first chick born is all crusty, i guess the egg goop is stuck to him. last year i had the same problem, and every chick that hatched was like this. i...
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    Anyone from Manitoba?

    Any chicken people out there from manitoba?
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    Young hens stopped laying

    I posted this already but didn't really get many answers. Just as winter began and the daylight hours were starting to diminish my older hens stopped laying as much. Once I noticed that i had a light in there 24/7 and the hens that were still laying kept on laying but the ones that had stopped...
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    Chickens not laying anymore?

    So about the time of the first snow here in canada, id say sometime in late november.. my neighbors dogs attacked my flock and killed two of the chickens. Some of my older birds had stopped laying already but i was getting 13-17 eggs a day from 24 hens. (that includes the 10 older girls and the...
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    keeping neighbors dogs off the property, what kind of dog can i get?

    I am wanting to get a dog anyways, so I'm wondering what type of breed to get to keep other dogs away but yet protect my flock and not be too aggressive with the chickens
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    how reliable are water heater thermostats?

    this link here http://www.rona.ca/en/water-heater-thermostat is my local rona shop. when i look at the picture though it looks like the temperature on it can only be set from 110F to 170F. i was thinking about maybe just getting a dimmer switch...
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    humidity ?

    some people say to ignore humidity completely until day 18. right now though my incubator has a 12% humidity. should i be concerned about this? also last time i hatched eggs my chicks all ended up being crusty instead of being fluffy. im thinking this is a humidity problem...what should my...
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    A couple of easy incubation questions

    1- is it okay if i open the incubator 3 times a day to manually turn the eggs? 2-my temperture in my home made incubator is a little higher than 101.5. is it okay to bring the temperature down by drilling a hole in my incubator ? its a styrofoam bator,
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    neighbors dogs attacked flock!! help!

    So my neighbors dogs attacked my flock and killed two of my chickens about a month ago. Since then those dang dogs keep coming back onto my yard and now my poor girls have to be locked up most of the day! this really sucks because i have 22 chickens and especially in the summer it really saves...
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    Need help with this math!

    So i have a mixture that is 32% protein, which i plan to mix with wheat and oats, which are both 12% protein. so i mix equal parts 32% - 12% - 12%...where will my protein percentage be? I arrived at 17% protein but I am not good at math. by equal parts i mean like, 10 pounds 32% - 10 pounds...
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    broody hen..should i let her hatch eggs before winter?

    i am thinking no because my coop is not heated and the chicks will probably die wont they?
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    bald bum chicken with red skin

    So i have a two or three bald chickens and one in particular has a very red butt. now i have 24 chickens, 10 of which were mostly all bald this summer when i got them and more than half of those have now grown feathers in the fall. the rest were day old chicks i got this spring. they are all...
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    fecies in blood?

    My chickens all seem very healthy and happy but i have noticed blood in some fecies. it's like small little balls of blood. like the size of a tiny ball of styrofoam. they have actually been eating a lot of styrofoam because i have been working with it for the past month or two and its all over...
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    how to mix 32% layer supplement?

    So i bought this stuff today because i have lots of wheat, barley and rolled corn at home. I have two questions about this stuff 1-how do i mix it? like how many cups of corn and barley and wheat do i add to a cup of this? 2- do i have to add calcium to this? i have attached a picture...
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