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  1. Rushdoggie

    can babies new to coop have coop and run or just coop?

    I moved my 3 babies out to my chicken yard, they have their own small coop and run combo. The enclosed coop has a window but its kind of in the shade and its a little dim inside. The whole little shebang is pretty safe, with good latches and it has a nice apron to prevent digging, but I would...
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    post sour crop/doughy crop, still thin, odd poo

    OK, so I'm pretty sure she had a sour crop/doughy crop. She may have had an actual impaction at the start. I kept her inside 2 weeks, then inside at night but let her out with the others during the day (it was cold and she is SO thin, plus I wanted to feel her crop in the morning. I treated...
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    2 year old Brahma thin, low energy, very bright green liquid poo

    ok I need help...my sweet Rusty (about 2 year old Brahma hen) is not well. Shes been molting so I haven't handled her much. She stopped laying about 6 weeks ago when the molt started. The last 2 days I have noticed shes not out with the other 2 girls, shes off by herself. 2 days ago I called...
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    supplemental light question

    So I was thinking about adding supplemental lighting to increase egg production as I live quite northerly and our winter days are very short. My girls live in a coop that has a smaller enclosed roosting area and a bigger open run area that is attached. They have an auto pop door that lets them...
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    molting questions

    My Brahma who is under a year did a molt. It was odd, I have two 2 year old birds (and EE and a Australorpe), and 2 young birds (Brahma and Marans). In Oct the Austrolorpe started her expected molt. The other 3 were still laying. A few weeks later my Marans went super broody and attacked the...
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    Brahma molting question

    I have a Brahma who is 11 months old, seems to be going through a molt. The feathers on her feet look awful, they look like they are broken off and her scales look rough. I have never had a feather foot bird before. Do their feet normally look bad when molting? I looked closely and don't...
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    how long is normal for a new layer to lay soft or thin shelled eggs?

    I have a 7-8 month old Cuckoo Marans hen who has laid I think 5 or 6 eggs in the last month. The first one I found and it was completely shell less. I think there were at least 2 more that I found pieces of in the coop. Then I found a very very thin shelled egg on the ground that had been eaten...
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    integration help

    So, trying to make a long story concise. I had 3 chickens I raised and they were an ideal little backyard flock. They jostled a little for position but all 3 got along and roosted close and seemed to be attached to each other. Then one had to go and die on me. The remaining 2 seemed off, and...
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    not crappy pre fab kit

    So I would like to replace my coop. The one I have my husband and I bought then added onto, and I hate it. Its ugly, its hard to get to the places I need to clean and collect eggs and even harder to get to the run to fill the feeders etc. It was a nightmare to get done with DH and I arguing the...
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    baby with head injury

    I am sick, yesterday I had a baby escape her enclosure in the coop and the adult hens attacked her and literally pecked her head to the bone and shes missing skin on her neck. I really thought she was going to die, but amazingly she seems to be doing ok, eating and drinking. I had her in a...
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    injured chick needs isolated but shes very lonley

    I ended up with a singleton cochin chick and she was injured. She escaped her enclosure in the coop and got pecked very badly. She is remarkably doing ok despite this huge wound on her head, but obviously shes isolated...I don't even want to have her outside now because of flies etc in her...
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    suddenly stopped laying

    So I have 3 hens, a Buff O, an Austrolorpe and an Easter Egger. All 3 started laying last month, the Buff and Austrolorpe 1st then Ricky my Easter Egger. Ricky had been laying about 5 eggs a week, and now suddenly hasn't laid since Friday. I am a bit worried because her last few eggs were not...
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    turning 6 months in winter...how will I know when egg laying starts?

    Hi all; Forgive me if I am asking something easy to find here, I have searched but can't find quite what I am looking for. My 3 girls turned 6 months in December, but of course its winter ad here in WA the days are extra short this time of year. I think they have turned a corner into...
  14. Rushdoggie

    chicken doesn't sit on perch at night

    Hello, chicken newbie. I have 3 girls in a small but plenty big enough for 3 coop attached to a run coop (Buff Orpington, Australorpe, Americauna/Easter Egger). They are about 18 weeks old. All 3 return to the coop from the run or the chicken yard at dusk and get on the same side, but my Buff...
  15. Rushdoggie

    planters in run

    So my chicken area has bushs on one end and a big tree on the other and its wide open in the middle. I'd like to plant something sort of bushy and large but not huge in the open space to add some more cover from wandering hawk eyes and to add a bit more shade. I was wondering if anyone had tried...
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    is hardware cloth alone stable enough for run sides?

    So we are going to build a small run 8x4 to attach to the coop (which is inside a designated area that's fenced in and will have netting) so my 3 chickens can walk outside a bit when confined. The plan is to make a wooden frame and then cover it with hardware cloth, a locking gate and bury the...
  17. Rushdoggie

    hello, new here

    Hi I'm Beth. I am picking up my 1st 3 chickens tomorrow. I plan to get a Buff Orpington, a black sex link and an Americauna. I found the site googling info on chickens My husband and I live in Vancouver, WA (close to Portland OR). We have 3 dogs and I am hoping no issues. My dogs are well...
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