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    Help us figure this out?

    We have a wellsummer that will be three soon. Every summer she has gone broody. Then last summer she only stopped being broody when she started a hard molt. She lost weight from all this and was just over 6lbs last sept. This week my daughter weighed her again and she is down to 4. She has also...
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    8X10 coop layout

    So this is my current idea for my permanent coop. It will be an 8X10 gambrel with a storage shelf in over the roosts/back part of the isle for straw. The blue are bins my daughter wants to use as nest boxes. They are under the poop board. The green is a brooder/isolation area under the poop...
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    PSA: dog crate caused death

    We have a hen undergoing a hard molt. We put her in a dog crate to keep the others from picking on her too much and to make sure she was getting plenty of vitamins and protein. My daughter thought she was lonely so she setup another dog crate next to the first and put another hen in there. Both...
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    Yellow Jackets

    We have yellow jackets (IDed by my 11yo, I am mildly allergic and haven't been near yet) in the run. We did have a tarp on it for winter so the yellow jackets were happy and we didn't see them, but my 11yo took the tarp off today and noticed the nest. I don't want to spray poison, or burn them...
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    Misplaced hen

    My 10yo wanted to be nice and took one of our hens to the field next door (about 3/4 mile from the coop) to forage. If I had known I would have forbidden it. She blinked and now our wellsummer is missing. We looked together for about 45 min until it got too dark. Since it's so far I don't think...
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    How do I turn off the 'spell checker'?

    The built in spell checker drives me nuts. It can't figure out my strange spellings of things, and it is sooo much slower then my browsers built in spell checker. I would prefer to use my browsers spell checker but it won't work with the forums spell checker on. So how do I turn it off?
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    escape artist

    We got three more chicks today. A buff orpington, a buff brahma, and a welsummer. Eleven weeks ago we got three chicks and they did fine in this brooder. Today, our day old wellsummer escaped shortly after putting her in the brooder. She insists on escaping unless she is sleeping. Then she...
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    Chiken sleep

    Last night we had a storm kick up really quick. Tornado warnings, things blowing around. I went out to rescue things like our dog house and picnic table and my oldest brought in the dog and decided to get the 3 six week old chicks we have too. Because of the awful weather and their age I let her...
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    Chiken sleep

    delete, computer problems
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    keeping water out

    How do you have openings for nest boxes to collect eggs, but still keep the rain out? Most of the coop plans I see have the nest boxes open on the top, how does rain not get in the crack?
  11. tash

    does anyone have a coop from CConly.com?

    I have been wanting chickens for a few years now, last year we finally bought a house. I would like to someday get a permanent coop/garden shed (something along the lines of 12X12) but that will be someday and I would like chickens sooner then that :lol: Background: so I was looking at...
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    feral chickens

    I was taking my daughter to school the other day and noticed 3 chickens going into the woods. Since then I have seen them several other times when going to and from her school. Today I managed to get some photos of them. They seem to live in the woods near a bunch of houses in a suburban type...
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    huge floppy comb

    we are watching natgeo right now and there is this pirate thing on. One of the pirates just walked up to this guy while holding a chicken. The chicken was white with this huge red comb that flopped over and completely hid it's face. I wish I could have gotten a photo but my camera battery is...
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