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    113 degree projected weather

    So here's the issue. It's been in the 90s last few days. Okay, no big deal, we turn on the mister for the gals in their run, they stay under the tarp we added to the coop for rain (now used for shade) and they lay in the damp dirt to cool off. But this weekend is supposed to be NO LESS than 100...
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    A surprising dynamic shift in the flock

    It's only been one day since Unice passed away but I've already started to notice a dynamic shift in our little backyard ecosystem. Not just including the hens, but 3 wild birds. In our backyard, attached to the back of our rental property, is a bird house. Yearly, two birds who I believe are...
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    Lost our first hen, how to help the rest of the flock?

    I went outside this morning like normal. let the hens into their run, filled their food and changed their water. Hens were acting normal, even the broody girl ran out running and jumping and a little crazy (as she's been for about two weeks now, we're just thankful she's gone to broody and...
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    How do I teach my dog that the hens arent a threat?

    So, I have a pitbull. Not one of those small, short, stubby pitties- no, I've got a big, bulky, if not slightly chubby american pitbull. And that pitbull is afraid of exactly two things. Weiner dogs. And chickens. Don't ask me how the weiner dog part happened because I can't figure that out...
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    What I've Learned in Our First Year

    We sort of bought chicks on an impulse. We found this farm store in our city called 'Wilco' while we were hunting around for canning jars and most other stores were sold out. And when I walked in....I heard peeping. Peep-peep-peeping. And me and my dad walked over to a section with...probably a...
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    Chickens laying during winter - Halp I've got too many eggs

    So, my dad told me the hens were supposed to take 'a break' during winter. That we might only get one egg a day That we might get none. The 18 pack and 12 pack plus 4 eggs in the fridge right now says otherwise. We had one single day where we found no eggs in the nesting box. One. And then...
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    Change of style

    So, in the last few weeks I noticed that the dreaded Hawk that used to fly over our house has disappeared. I no longer find them staring down my hens from afar and I no longer feel unsafe letting my chickens out in the yard. So, we had a slight change of pace to how we care for the hens. With...
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    Noisy Cluck Noris

    So I love our hens. Our 4 lovely red-feathered novogen browns and our 1 sweet little black australorp who's feathers look blue when the light hits them just right. I love them They're sweet, they're friendly, they like to play, and they all have distinct personalities. One of my hen's...
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    Winter Rains and Wet Chickens

    Tis winter in the valleys of Oregon's mountains, and in has come the rain. For the last day and a half, it's been raining hard. Pouring, if you will. The streets of my poor neighborhood are so flooded we cannot walk across the street to get our mail without knee-high rain boots. The yard is...
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    In-and-out-Mice

    Alright, it was about 2 weeks ago the first time i found droppings in the food container. We recently put down layers of hay and bedding to try our hand at the 'deep litter' method of keeping the coop dry during the winter (so far, it's working very very well, and the chickens love it)...
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    Bully Hen

    Unfortunately, it had to be *my* hen. Cluck Noris, my sweet girl, has become a bully. Ever since it started to rain frequently as we started to go into the winter season, Nori has been awfully mean to the other hens. When we let them graze in the yard- there's one space she's not allowed in...
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    Winter is Coming (To the pacific northwest)

    Anyone have tips on watery winters? I know lots of places have snow over winter, however I live in a low-elevation area of Oregon that gets a LOT of rain in the winter. Which isn't usually a problem, we just sort of let the yard get overgrown and then we mow it when it dries up for a few days...
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    Good news and bad news - Update from Oregon Wildfires

    The good news is that the wind died down! Much longer with the wind heading towards us, and we would've been forced to evacuate without our precious birds. The bad news is the ash show hasn't stopped, and there's no sign that it's going to let up. Overnight, ash has piled up in small piles...
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    Emergency: Ash Snow and Fire Threatens Oregon Cities. How do we help our birds in the case of forced evacuation?

    Oregon is currently *on fire*. The nearest fire is less than 20 miles away, and we're watching evacuation warnings creep closer and closer to our city. Since late last night, ash has been falling from the sky like snow. The smoke blown into town is so thick you cant see down the road Ash is...
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    Some eggciting news!

    So today, around 8 pm, we opened the coop to show my mom something. And we look at each other and go 'wait.......we only had two training eggs, right?' And we all crowded around the open nesting boxes. And pulled out a long, skinny egg from the bottom of our nesting box. That's right! Tonight...
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    Nearing 100 degrees F

    Right now, as I'm typing this, it's 90 degrees in Oregon. Inside, the temperature is terrible. We have no air conditioning, and even using multiple fans isn't enough to keep us cool. And as for our birds? They're out in the sun. We hung up towels over the roof of their run to give them shade...
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    Help with wing clipping?

    Our chickens are getting big. They're about a month and a half from when we should start expecting to see their first eggs. And because our chickens are growing up, we have a new challenge that we need to face. They're learning to fly. Normally it's not that big of deal. They flutter their...
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    Cooling off my birds on hot days.

    It's been very hot recently in Oregon. The sun is beating down relentlessly, and it's very difficult to keep ourselves and our dog cool, let alone our chickens. If we had air conditioning, we might have considered bringing the chickens into the garage temporarily while this heat wave passes...
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    Break in attempt! Prevention and repairs

    This morning when I let my chickens out into their run, I noticed something very peculiar about the door of their coop. The wire that covered the door into my coop on the bottom section was bent inwards The section right beside the doorframe had a similar problem, but it wasn't broken open like...
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    Cat tracks! Help for a first-time farmer?

    Yesterday when we were outside checking on the chickens, my sister noticed something unusual. Outside the coop in a patch of mud (Created thanks to our chickens pecking that area clean of grass) there were little cat paw prints. A cat had been outside of our coop the night before. No chickens...
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