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    Heat for chicks in winter?

    My daughter got two chicks from her Vo-Ag teacher at the end of the semester (another class raised them). They are fully feathered but I'm not sure of the exact age. We have raised chicks for years - but only in spring! - and I can't figure out what to do about heat. We are in Southern New...
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    Eye injury - antibiotics??

    We found one of my hens this evening unwell. She was in a nesting box at bedtime obviously unwell. She appears to have an injury to one eye and is also presenting as sick - droopy, not wanting to eat, etc. I have antibiotic eye ointment which my daughter applied. She said it looks like the...
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    Predator apron help in rocky area

    I'm looking for some help figuring out how to add a predator apron to my existing run. Its a large run, kind of triangular shaped, on a hill in New England, so the area is extremely rocky. We have seen a lot of coyotes and foxes recently, and I'm also sick of my dogs pushing under the fence to...
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    Dog proof goose feeder

    Could anyone give me ideas for a goose food setup that my dog couldn't get into? Both roam more or less freely - the geese more so than the dog. Right now the goose food is just in a bowl and he can gobble down an awful lot in just a minute or two. Obviously training can be done but if it was...
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    Roundworms

    Hi, I see what I think (?) are two roundworms in a dropping this morning. I have never seen or treated for worms before. I have 23 hens of varying ages. I did some research online but am a little confused about what product to buy. I am not seeing anything for poultry worming in my local store...
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    Can you compost shavings after treating for mites?

    Hi, I recently treated for mites using poultry dust - on the chickens and on roosts etc. Normally I compost my shavings along with everything else for my (not strictly organic) garden. Is it a problem to compost the shavings? I know people use poultry dust in the veggie garden too, I'm just not...
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    Moldy bag of feed

    Is eating a little bit of moldy feed bad for chickens? I bought a bag at TSC today, brought it home and scooped from the top of the bag to top off the feed bowl. The hens came excitedly and ate a bunch. I then dumped the rest into my feed storage bin and the bottom third of the bag was one big...
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    Construction question - adding ventilation

    Hi all, I'm looking for winter ventilation for my coop. My idea was to remove the blocking in the eaves and put in hardware cloth. They aren't budging. In the image, I've cut the insulation away from the one trying to remove it. Does anyone with construction knowledge know how these are attached...
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    Using lime in coop?

    I recently dealt with flystrike for the first time, and in one of my conversations at the feed store the clerk suggested sprinkling the run and coop floor with lime to reduce flies. I'd never used it before, but I did and the result was almost a miracle - less flies, the coop smelled cleaner...
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    Flystrike - please help

    Thanks in advance for any help regarding this. We went away for 10 days and the day we came back one of out older hens was acting sick. When I looked at her her back side was covered with maggots. They were centered around a marble sized abcess of some sort, which is not open. I have never dealt...
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    Older Hen Not Using Legs

    Hi, This is my first post. I have an older hen (5 or 6 years), she has been apparently normal and healthy. When I went to close the coop the other night, I found her lying just outside the door (in the rain, poor thing) unable to stand up. I tucked her in the safe box inside the coop with...
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