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    Roll-away : how can I add it to the coop?

    I have a coop similar to the attached pic....arrow points to where it opens for eggs, it opens from a latch at the top flipping down if that makes sense. My ladies and roo are snacking on eggs. They aren't deterred by fake eggs. I tried a roll away plastic tray and they fussed and continually...
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    Age to stop laying eggs?

    My leghorns are 3 years old as are my Easter Eggers, Austrolorps, Wyandotte. I have an orpington and a barred rock age 2. I know they lay less in winter, but it seems extreme this time around. Only my leghorns are laying, of 4 leghorns I get an egg every other day, and no other eggs from my...
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    Stinky dirt....

    What can I add to the dirt floor of the run/coop to keep down on stench especially when it gets muddy? Pellets? Sand? It's hard to clean out some parts of the coop and luckily last year was hot and dry so I kinda just let the coop floor....just be and the dry heat kept down on the smell.
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    Rolling egg/egg hiding nest box question

    I want to get a roll away egg thing so that my ladies are less apt to eat their eggs, plus the eggs will be cleaner and less likely to get stepped on. My coop is similar to the one pictured, and the roll aways I've seen all seem to open in front of the nest instead of behind as I'd need, and...
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    The accidental maybe hatch

    I was not feeling well for a few days, then we were a super busy and we also left on vacation and some time during all that, I noticed my hens were broody with some eggs, so I marked them and let them be broody with those 6 eggs. Well dummy me didn't mark a date on the eggs or even a guess of a...
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    Easy cheap ER coop ideas?

    I need an easy, cheap er coop idea. It's 24 and windy and my existing coop isn't big enough for all, or, I've got creatures of habit who only want to roost on top of a dresser. I have 11 birds and I am attaching a badly drawn picture to explain things. I want to build something tomorrow but I am...
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    Broody and perhaps more?

    My dear Orpington, Pepper, has been very broody the past two weeks. I also notice she only goes out and about when I pull her off the eggs, and then she just goes straight the dirt bath. I also noticed her face looks kinda like she has a five o click shadow and now I'm not sure if she always was...
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    My chicks stink beyond stink

    I've had chicks before so I'm baffled. Somehow they turned their indoor brooder into an inch thick of just....goo. poo and goop that stinks worse than my outdoor hens whose run has endired 5" rain in two days. I cleaned the little chick brooder and in less than a week it's worse,as stated, than...
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    Soggy stench of death, help

    We had 5 inches of rain in a few days and it was that side ways stuff so the roof didn't protect the floor of my chicken run. So it's an inch of slime with shavings and leaves and poo and mud that smells worse than death. Never smelt anything worse. It's gonna attract vermin etc. And be a health...
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    My aracauna

    I can't seem to get a good pic but I got a new chick a few days ago, a black aracauna. Except she (hopefully a she) has a white underbelly_butt area, like her vent fluff is white :) I've yet to see a grown aracauna like that. And she is yet to be named. Actually we have 6 new chicks. Two are...
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    Type of leghorn cross?

    I have three chicks and I know the mama is a leghorn full breed. Two of the chicks have black dots. Daddy could be a RIR mix (possible bar rock? He is orange with black and white mottled specks) but usually I guess if he mates with the leghorn they turn out all white no specks. There is also...
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    Coop and run math/how big?

    I have a 9*3 foot run plus a 7*3 foot run-coop combo (coop part is about 3*3) and will end up with 12-13 hens. So far I have 6 and some hatchlings. I let my 6 out daily for an hour or two to free range and then they're back in their coop-run-coop combo. But once I have up to 13..I need some...
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    How old are store-bought chicks?

    I just purchased some orpington a and araucania from Walden Farms And Ranch but the chicks were from Ohio (mount....something or another hatchery). The store posts delivery/first day of sale which was today (4/8) and I got a box that said date of mailing 4/6 but I'm not sure if it was their box...
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    Sexing chicks leghorn mixes etc

    I have two leghorn barnyard mixes, two lavender orpington and an araucania. The store said the orp. And araucania should be sexed, pullets.the leghorn mixes are from a friend so who knows. I tried feather sexing and ended up confused. Tried my best with pics but my phone didn't want to focus...
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    Jersey giant?

    I can get a picture in a few days when I get my chick but I had a friend hatch some leghorn eggs but her black jersey giant may have fertilized one as the newborn has a black dot on its but and a few black specks. Is it possible for a straight leghorn to have black ? Or is it indeed a jersey...
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    Showing off the eggs

    I just think my girls' eggs are so pretty. Feel free to share yours as well.
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    Keeping chickens safe in the cold

    We will be getting -3*f Monday and it will be windy so windchiksl will be -15 - -20. I have a small coop from tractor supply with enclosed nesting areas (all my birds can fit if they snuggle) which is about 3x2 feet and has a small 6" window for venting,a large window (2*2') and a 2*2' sliding...
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    Therapy chickens

    I had heard of poultry for patriots, and know a vet who finds solace and joy with his chickens. Well...my son isnt a vet since he is an elementary student, but he has ADHD and anxiety and our chickens are his therapy. Anyone else have therapy chickens? When he is upset he goes and snuggles and...
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    Breed, gender?

    I asked this a few months ago when they were only about 10 weeks old. Now they're about 20 weeks old. I'm thinking the mostly gold is an Easter egger, hopefully female..... gray is blue production, austrlorp or...? Black and gold an orpington or...? All female or??
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    Bumblefoot or....?

    No one else has it and it was never black or red or pussy or anything; my son noticed she was "missing her fingernail" a month ago. It hasnt gotten any worse.
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