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    Feather Plucking

    I need some advice on one of my plucked hens! We have 3 red sex link hens. They are all 18 months old. We got them at the same time, easter a year ago. They live in an elevated coop (deep litter) with an outdoor run (pea gravel and sand). No heat this year. (we did have a heat lamp last...
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    Best coop location for winter??

    My coop is movable. The original plan was to move it every week or so to give the girls fresh grass and not kill any yard. But that turned out to be a big pain (though I now have some REALLY healthy sections of yard from the early experiments) and we put it on concrete with a sand floor of...
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    More eggs than chickens??

    We just went out to the coop and found FOUR eggs. We have three chickens. Both the hubby and I checked for eggs last night before bed and found none. I even raked the coop to be sure one didn't get buried as they aren't laying in the nest box. There was nothing in there, I looked everywhere...
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    Jail Bird

    More like prison break really. I have ONE ornery hen who keeps escaping the yard. Every day she finds a new way out, I find a solution to it...then she finds another one. The other two are perfectly content to stay in the yard. They seem to realize that they're spoiled and pampered, safe...
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    What do YOU call this??

    We got our girls at TSC....red sex links. But I've seen chickens that look like this called a zillion different things. So I'm wondering.....what are they really? What do YOU call them?? When they were chicks:
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    First 'Official' Egg....and a question.

    Well, we had our first 'official' egg yesterday. (We got one on Saturday....but it was very thin shelled and broken when we found it) Next to a large egg from the grocery for comparison: We're very proud of our Stella! (there are more pics on my blog is anyone is interested) Now for...
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    It was only a matter of time....

    ...before someone made a complain. Namely my crotchey old neighbor, as she is rather a busybody and always looking for something to complain about. I was hoping she wouldn't notice because the girls are so quite and she NEVER comes to her backyard. But she did the other day, caught sight of...
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    Our city chickens got OUT!!

    The girls escaped the yard today! I went out to feed them some grapes and they were just gone. My hubby finally found them under the porch of an abandoned house across the alley. He carried two of them home while I tried to baby the skittish one out. He said some lady saw him while she was...
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    Nest materials?

    What do chickens want in the nest box? I've got pine shavings in the coop (thinking of trying coir next) but I'm not sure what to put in the nest box. More shavings..or hay or straw or something more nestlike?
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    Our coop is done!

    Well, as 'done' as a chicken coop ever gets! I still want to paint a cute little sign for over the door, and some other small things....and by the time I finish those I'm sure I'll find something else to do on it. Anyway...we're aren't at all handy, so we started with a dog house/pen and added...
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    Full grown?

    At what age are most chickens fully grown...pretty much as big as they are going to get? (Regular chickens, not bantams, if it matters)
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    Huddling?

    We have 10 week old chicks. They are fully feathered and have been in their outdoor coop for two or three weeks. They have never really gone into the coop on their own at night...I always make a show of putting more food in the feeder and they come running. They usually sleep with one or...
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    Question on ordinance...

    Too little too late really, since we already have our hens.....and I know of others in my town that do as well. But anyway, this is what it states: 505.15 KEEPING OF LIVESTOCK. (a) Definitions. For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the assigned meaning...
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    Afraid of the dark??

    I know this sounds crazy...but I think my chicks are afraid of the dark. They are 10 weeks old. Moved out into their coop two weeks ago. We still have the heat lamp in there as it was chilly last week...but it's been very warm this week. I wasn't planning on using it, but as it got dark...
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    Dry Corn?

    We have a huge bag of deer corn in the basement that I use for crafts sometimes (natural heating pads). I've kinda gotten out of the crafting stage and I was wondering if it would make a good snack for my chickens if I ran it through the food processor. Maybe mixed it with some birdseed and...
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    Newbie Questions

    Hi all. I've been reading the forums for a few months, but have a few questions. First off, my local TSC is OUT of chick starter feed....and they aren't sure when they are getting more. Does anyone have a decent online supplier that hasn't killed them on shipping? I did give them a bit of...
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    Newbie Intro

    Hi all! I've been reading the board for a few months, but finally have some questions and decided to get an account and post! We have been thinking about chickens for almost a year and this spring took the link and got four Red Star (red sex link) chicks. They are almost a month old and seem...
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