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    ideas for a “green” run

    Hi all, Seeking ideas from everyone around designing runs with greenery in a way that the chickens can’t destroy it all - hard I know! For instance by surrounding a plant with heavy rocks I’ve been able to have such plants survive even if the leaves are picked on occasionally, the roots are...
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    Autopoop.. designing for easy poop cleaning

    Greetings all, I was curious to see if any of you had achieved a coop design that made cleaning after poop particularly easy. I know a board poop works for many but I’m looking for a design that solves it a bit further. I was hoping to see designs where at least some of the poop falls...
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    Chicken lays soft shell eggs and they eat it together

    I have a white leg horn x (barter white) that use to lay good shell eggs. But for the past 9 months or so the norm has become soft shell eggs. Today I saw her purposefully lay the egg white while balancing herself on a rock feature i have in the run, so that the egg would break on lay and she...
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    Lash egg / salpingitis diagnosed - what next?

    Hi trusted backyard chook keepers! my 2+ year old barter brown stopped laying a few months ago and I pinned it on old age, but today i found 2 little distinct and ugly lash eggs! Pinkish nugget like, poop sized. She seems perfectly fine, if anything, better. what I’m not clear on is do I have...
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    Broody hen pecked on when removed from nest

    Hi all, seeking your advice as I’ve got a broody hen and I remove her from the nest and return her to the run to change her behaviour, but my other chook pecks her As soon as I do so. I’ve read somewhere that this is normal in that broody behaviour is natural (albeit unwanted by humans), so...
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    Aussie backyard chook keeper

    Hi All, I’ve relied on this website ever since getting chooks almost 2 years ago and thought I’d now join for more active engagement. I'm based in Sydney and have 2 chooks. I like to be scrappy and environmentally conscious so have built the coop with repurposed materials as much as possible...
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