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    Diatomaceous Earth for Worming

    I've heard diatomaceous earth is a good treatment for parasitic worms. You spread it on the ground and mix in a little bit with the food. I know it kills unwanted earthworms in nursery containers, so it seems it could do the job. What's your experience (good or bad)?
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    Supermarket chickens had less than 1 sq ft of living space

    I don't trust chicken sold at the super market. Somebody passed me this video, and I'm pretty shocked to find out the supermarket broilers were confined to an area less than 1 square foot...
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    Shipping Crate Part 3 -- It's an egg-layer!

    I tidied up the coop box, and I added two roosts on Tuesday to service 5 hens and 1 rooster. Then I got an egg yesterday and two eggs today. The roosts are crates turned on their side. This box has been the subject of two previous threads. Oddly, nobody mentioned it could make a stand-alone...
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    Please Help me save Lucille and Edna

    This thread is a follow-up from a previous thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/908299/chickens-with-bad-appetite-lost-3-last-night#post_13816385 All my juvenile hens are improving since I expanded my run, and I have two birds remaining in the chicken infirmary, Lucille (White), and...
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    Chickens with bad appetite -- lost 3 last night

    I'd appreciate any helpful suggestions you might have. I'm fairly new with chicken-rearing and I started with 24 chicks last spring. Now I have 20. 3 are really lethargic and they have a stool that's almost clear. see picture. There are 6 chickens in the right pen with about 60 square feet...
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    Reflective Mylar liner for chicken coop

    Has anyone tried emergency "space blanket" in the winter to line the inside of their coop? Seems like it would be quite effective. http://www.disastersupplycompany.com/shelter--blankets.html The physics of radiation heat transfer works as a function of the temperature difference raised...
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    Chickens Caught "Over-Cooping" -- Jury Trial Poll

    For some of you this might seem like an odd question, but how many chickens should be "allowed" to coop together under the same roof? I have a coop with a meager 8 square feet of living space and a group of delinquent hens that were caught in the act of "over-cooping" as I explain in this post...
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    Chickens in a coop & eggs on a face (he he)

    So it's Monday July 14th at 12:30 and the heat of the day is upon us. Well I decided to humor my chickens with a grand opening of their "overcrowded, undersized, no way a chicken would stay in there" coops with an 8 square foot floor plan -- or at least that's what I've been told on this...
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    Chicken Economics 101 -- Reality Check Please!

    According to the University of Maryland Department of Poultry Science: http://extension.umd.edu/sites/default/files/_docs/Raising%20Your%20Home%20Chicken%20Flock_FINAL_0.pdf Supercoop's musings: ref Note 10: small flock producers aren't here for economic reasons -- chicken-rearing is...
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    Our 5 toed bantam hen

    Blue Bell, our bantam hen, has 5 toes on the left foot. How uncommon is this, and could it be genetic?
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    Crate to Coop Conversion -- Part 2

    I want to thank everyone that contributed to my last design iteration for the shipping crate conversions. I have access to thousands of crates and a green solution is needed. I'm an engineer, and I redesigned these crates/coops based mainly on inputs I received on this forum. Please be...
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    Need Help on Coop Design from Shipping Crates

    This is my first post. I'm designing coops from automotive shipping crates, and I'd appreciate some objective reviews on the functionality of my design prototype (as shown in pictures). These coops are intended for egg-layers. By the Way Please forgive me for showing a price on a coop...
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