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    Magical egg?

    This morning I head out to the coop and to my delight there are four eggs waiting for me. I am all the more impressed considering the sub zero temps. Sadly, one of the eggs had frozen and cracked. I brought all four eggs in the house. The three good ones went in the fridge and the fourth...
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    Houston - We have Frostbite!

    17 degrees below zero this morning. Had the heat lamp going which kept the coop at a balmy 1 degree. Looks like the red star has a bit of frostbite on her comb. Not a bad case, just the very tips, maybe 3-4mm. She has a freakishly big comb, so no surprise that it was her. Well, she'll be...
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    Protein % of feed.

    Stopped by the feed store and inquired about 20% feed. He asked "Why?" I responded that some of my hens have stopped laying this winter and I wanted to maybe jump start them back into action w/some extra protein. He asked about lighting & coop temp, to which I replied a warm coop and 5 extra...
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    Exactly what are each sex-link's parents?

    This topic has sort of taken over a couple other topics unintendedly, yet I still hear a lot of disparity on the answer. The question is: What are the Rooster & Hen for each of the sex links? This is what I always thought: Any other sex links? or different variations on the ones I listed...
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    Chickens & Coffee???

    We have a compost pile that the chickens think is the greatest smorgasbord ever invented. Typically, I throw my spent coffee grounds from the percolator into the compost along with all the other scraps. Coffee grounds are a pretty optimal compost. Well, the grounds are interspersed with other...
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    Grandmother's trick for curing a chicken killing dog.

    Once when my mother was a little girl in the 50's, the family dog got into a neighbor's coop and killed a dozen chickens. My grandmother's solution to this problem was 1. get new chickens for the lost ones, and 2. get a dressed bird from the market and tie it to the dog's neck. Summer-time=hot...
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    Will my May hatched RIRs wait until Spring to lay?

    They haven't produced a single egg yet. They are now six months old. Their tail feathers haven't turned up yet, and their combs are still "pullet" small. The RIR's are middle of the pecking order. Granted daylight is shorter, but I was hoping they wouldn't wait until march. They aren't shy...
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    Pop Cans? Just make the coop as a greenhouse .

    I don't want to rain on anyone's parade with the whole pop can heater thing, but this seems like a whole lot of work, in order to collect some passive solar energy and electrically pump it into your coop. I DO believe in the collection, it is the method I question. I simply made my coop as a...
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    Foxes from HELL

    I started keeping chickens about a year ago and have lost 16 hens to foxes. My 1st set-up: 3'X4' coop w/attached 4'X12' run. All chicken wire 4" below ground. I thought I had a fairly secure set-up. Foxes ripped the chicken wire right out of the ground. Got in and got three pullets. So I...
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