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    Food and water inside raised coop?

    We are almost done with our coop/run renovation and I'm trying to figure out food and water. In the past we had water in the run and food in the coop. We now have raised the floor and you can still walk inside however not as easily as before. The entire thing is completely roofed. We will be...
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    Major coop overhaul and a ventilation question

    Five years ago we bought our house with this little garden shed. We converted it to a coop with a temporary run. We finally got the trees taken out and the new fence up and we are doing a major overhaul of our coop/run and storage. Tore down the old run and took the roof off. Using the...
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    Our first hatchling

    We have our first successful hatch! We aren't sure when the baby arrived as we were in Spokane all weekend and had someone feeding and watering. Momma was in the nesting box and they didn't mess with her. Yesterday momma had baby out in the run with the rest of our small flock.
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    How much larger for compost in run?

    We have an 8x8 garden shed that we are turning into a coop. We have pulled off all the drywall and insulation. There are two slide windows, a regular sized entry door and a wood floor. We plan on putting a run to one side of the coop and building a "lean to" type storage space off the back to...
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    My door pecking chicken!!

    I have one hen who follows me everywhere when I am outside. Sometimes I think that she thinks she is a dog instead of a chicken So the other day the kids had gone outside to play, left the door open, I turn around and who do I see So I try to chase her out and she runs around the table...
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    Duck trying to mate with chickens...help

    My hubby bought one lone duckling when we got our chicks. The chicks all turned out to be hens but my sneaking suspicion is that the duck is a male. A large white peking beauty who keeps trying to mate with my girls. He grabs the back of their neck and tries to step on them. I don't know...
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    Getting chickens to lay in the boxes?

    We have 10 chickens and 3 nesting boxes. We use pine shavings with the DLM and I put pine shavings in the nesting boxes. My girls clean all the shavings out of the boxes and then lay outside of the boxes on the coop floor. I have a few who will lay in the boxes but not sure which ones. How...
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    They are a hoot to watch

    I put the chicks in the coop yesterday so that they could run around. They are hilarious to watch They were running and flapping and jumping. I think they enjoyed the extra room. They started scratching around in the dirt and boy are they curious - having to check out every single piece of...
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    Pine and fir shavings

    I bought a bale of shavings at the feed store yesterday. I was told that they were pine shavings. They are actually fir and pine shavings. Are they ok to use with the chicks?
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    Bedding question

    I bought a bale of shavings and they told me that they are pine shavings. Do the pine shavings in the bale look and smell different than the ones that you buy in the smaller packages? I don't want to put this in with my chicks if it's cedar and the bag just says wood shavings - Help
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    Duckling question

    We got one duckling at the same time we got our chicks. We were told that they can live their whole life without swimming in water however a little while ago my daughter notice that one side of the ducklings sinuses was plugged and she was breathing funny. I put her in the bathtub with a few...
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    • Forum: Ducks
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    Red question

    I read somewhere that hens will peck at anything red. My hubby painted the inside door of the nesting boxes red - the rest of the inside of the nesting boxes are black. Should he repaint them? Will they peck at the door?
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    Any idea on what kind this is?

    The feed store said that this is an Americana. Do you think it is?
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    New chicks and a question (Pics added)

    We got chicks yesterday from our feed store - according to them we have 3 Americanas and 3 RIR although one of the Americanas I'm thinking might be a white leghorn looking at pics. Anyway right now we have them in a wire pet crate with hardware cloth around it and we will be moving them into a...
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    Coop help, need ideas

    We are new to the world of chickens but have wanted to get some for quite some time. We want some egg hens. Our neighbors moved and gave us their turkey coop which in this picture is almost completly put together but this picture shows the inside. It has a front with a door and a plywood roof...
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