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    Not a Cream Legbar but what is she?

    So I recently got this little 5 month old hen. The guy that sold her to me said she came from a farm store as a chick that she was a cream legbar (and I think that store uses the Meyer hatchery). She started laying this week but the eggs are a light brown not a blue. So now I'm wondering what...
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    Chicken hasn’t laid this year

    I have a 2 year old speckled sussex that has not started laying again this year. I don't keep a light in the coop so she and her flock mates had a rest over winter. The others started laying again back in January/March. She had frost bite on her comb in February and is still growing back the...
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    Frostbite Plus Yellowy Poos

    I have a chicken with frostbite on her comb and a yellow tinge to the urate part of her poo. Her appetite was down but has since returned to normal. On Saturday morning, the temperatures dropped to -5 F in our area with humidity 80-90%. I rarely close the coop door, but with the cold temps, I...
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    Poultry lice treatment advice

    I found poultry lice on one of my chickens. They only appear to be near her vent feathers but there are clumps of eggs. Reading the advice here, it seems I should treat the whole flock (I only have 3) and coop with Permethrin to be safe. I have three questions (so far): 1. How does this stuff...
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    Coop Remodel & Run Build Complete

    After several years on this site and over a year of on and off construction, our little coop is finally complete! I put the last screw in on Sunday :celebrate Eventually I plan to write up an article and include some little trials, errors and anecdotes along the way, but for now, here's the...
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    Feed station & food questions for small flock

    I am getting three full grown hens from my friend's flock this weekend and have some questions about the feed/water/grit/oyster shell station setup. I have seen some wonderful setups on this site with porthole buckets, PVC tubes, troughs etc. But, given the small number of chickens I was...
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    Blackjack 57 consistency... did I just ruin this floor?

    So my coop modification and run build project has been a long, slow process. In my eagerness to make progress, I rushed to blackjack the floors before the sun set. I was sticky and covered in goop by the time I realized I should have looked up the proper method first... I mixed the gallon as...
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    Ventilation Configuration for a Small Coop

    Hi there! I am in the process of rehabbing a secondhand coop I purchased and need some advice on the ventilation. The coop is 4’x4’ and is very well build but there isn’t quite enough ventilation. It’s a lean-to style that has vents at the roof totaling a little less than 1.5 sqft. There is a...
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    Chicken run build teaser...

    I purchased a secondhand coop a few weeks ago and spent this past weekend (the.whole.weekend) framing out a run... I think I used about as many deck screws as profanities.... but I'm proud of the progress so far since I did this pretty much alone with no prior experience with framing or the...
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    Hello... take 2!

    So I actually joined this site back in 2017. My husband and I were living in a little apartment at the time with a perfect backyard for a few chickens... so I found this site, read everything I could, researched coops, breeds, got Town, neighbor and landlord permission.. and then we bought a...
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    New here, can't wait for chickens!

    Hello! My husband and i just recently decided to raise a small flock in our backyard in upstate NY. We're anxiously awaiting the snow to melt so we can set up (and reinforce) our chicken coop. Then comes the fun part of getting chickens! We're in a small area, close to the neighbors so we wont...
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