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    Major swollen eye RIR rooster

    Hey everyone. Yesterday I noticed my RIR rooster’s left eye was extremely swollen and the eye looks a bit grey. He also seems to not be able to hold his head completely stable, but he had a neck injury a few months ago. he’s not sneezing and he’s still crowing. Poop looks normal. Our chicks free...
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    5 week old chick started walking funny

    I have a 5 week old RIR who today I just noticed is walking hunched down. The feet and most of the leg to the joints is touching the ground. He can walk around but isn’t moving like the others and isnt has hyper/playful. I checked for any external injury and can’t see anything. Seems to still be...
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    Growing fodder in hot climates

    Where we live our greenest most vegetation filled times are over the winter and early spring. From mid May-late Oct we see no rain. Even with watering parts of our property there isn’t much that grows this time of year. I was thinking of starting to grow some fodder and tried a small batch but...
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    Coop door and kids

    So we Black and copper Marans and Plymouth rocks. And I have a 3year old and one year old. 😂 I see the recommended coop door size is 10x10. How small can I go so that my kids won’t be able to climb in and out? Current door is 10x16
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    Ventilation for free range birds

    We are in the midst of constructing our chicken house for our 7 chickens (though will be 5 in a few weeks). We have around 300m fenced in space out side with 5 fruit trees that we will let them run freely in. My question is HOW much ventilation is enough since they will be outside most all day...
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    Grit...can you make it from stuff outside?

    My chicks aren’t ready for grit yet but been thinking about it. Can I just go outside and bring in bits of dirt/sand from the yard and gravel? We live in a rocky/mountainous area with natural porous volcanic stones everywhere. Could I just collect those from outside and bring them in? How small...
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    Introductions! From Israel

    Hi, I’m Karen and I’m a wife and mother of 2 (soon to be 3) kids. My husband and I are originally from the USA but immigrated 4 years ago to Israel 🇮🇱. While it’s been a journey learning a new language and culture, we wouldn’t trade it. We now live in the northern part of the country called the...
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