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    Happy to be back, looking forward to starting a new flock

    I started with 6 chicks in January of 2020 in a suburban neighborhood that didn’t allow chickens, perfect timing with COVID locking us all down. We live on a bayou so we only have neighbors on either side. Before getting my girls I cleared it with them. As I think we all do, we learn what works...
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    Call me crazy but I added a small evaporative cooler to our chicken run- hens are laying again though

    We grappled with this idea last year because I thought it was a bit crazy, but it has just gotten too hot. We are in SE Texas and last Sunday the “feels like” factoring in humidity temperature was 109 degrees Fahrenheit. I have a smallish wooden fenced in run (10x20) with hawk netting and areas...
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    Everything about these two confuses me

    Come February 2021 I will have gone through my first year with chickens. This site has taught me so much and I appreciate how engaged everyone is. I love having chickens! Thank you to those that were spot on in identifying Fowl Pox recently. I ordered and vaccinated the 4 with the help of my...
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    Are these pecking injuries or something worse?

    Hi all, last week I noticed blood on one of my girls combs. That led me to checking the other 3. I found injury to the comb of another. Some looked scabbed. It also looks like frostbite pictures to me but its still in the 99’s here in SE Texas. I cleaned applied disinfectant. Don’t know what...
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    Keeping young chickens from nest boxes

    Hi all, my chickens are 18 weeks old. They primarily sleep in the roost in one big clutch just above the open door. They don’t typically spread out to the roosting bars. In part I think it’s faulty coop design and probably because simply it’s hot at night here in Houston so they stay by the ooen...
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