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    Broody Jail! So proud of my husband's creation!

    We were at our wit's end with 4 broodies and no rooster nor room for babies. I had a broody jail I made from a really big dog crate but it was a nightmare to clean since I had to access it from the small end and three hens was already overbooked! So he built me this behemoth creation. Posting...
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    OMG everybody's Broody!

    Mostly venting here but i have 12 hens and 4 are broody! We don't have a rooster, nor do we have space for more chickens so I put the first one in broody jail, and now I added another to the cell (LOL) but they are an atrocity to clean - having them in a crate for a full day you have to clean...
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    California Fires

    My goodness friends - I just cannot stop thinking about these terrible fires that have obliterated whole towns in so many areas. I just wanted to send my love and prayers out there - in general but with relevance to our group - for the chickens and their owners who have had to lose or transport...
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    WINDY day - hiding in the coop

    Good morning! Today is a snowy and very windy day. We have a covered (very large) run and another one connected to that one. We have water heaters and a sweeter heater out in the runs but today with the low temps and wind and snow, they are all staying inside the coop! I don't know if the...
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    The lesser of two evils

    Hi All. I have a tiny fluffball frizzle - she is beyond the bottom of the pecking order, she is like if you put a kitten in the flock. Tiny, sweet, silly, can't fly at all, and the butt of all of the flock's jokes. She sleeps in the first nesting box in our coop. Since she can't fly, she...
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    bald bottom Frizzle Bantam (warning - picture of gross butt LOL)

    Hi All - I have a frizzle bantam who is about a year old. She is a funny little sassy lassy but she has the ugliest bald bottom! She is healthy - no mites - and tho the other hens don't love her (she is the bottom of the pecking order) they don't terrorize her. The worst they do is chase her...
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    best automatic chicken door?

    Is there a favorite automatic chicken door that most of you agree on? Would be cool to have one that is wired in, rather than batteries, and works with phone alerts. Any suggestions?
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    Have many of you lost chickens in the heat wave?

    Hi All - WOW its been hot. Triple digit heat and 90+% humidity. I have been losing sleep over losing some of my girls. I am doing all of the things - the fans, the misters, the air flow and ventilation, the shade, I even bought some rolls of sod that I laid out inside the runs so I could...
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    Goodness Gracious it's been a Broody Spring!

    Such a crazy spring with the broodys! One of my little "cookies and cream" hens has been broody twice already this season and it was less than a month apart. One of my sweetest girls who has never been broody decided to give it a try. Luckily she was easier to break. Here is the one that has...
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    broody but not acting broody?

    Hi All - Usually when one of my hens is broody I get the "cluck-cluck-cluck" and the screech with the fluffed out wings etc....the whole broody ball-o-wax. One of my hens is NOT acting broody in terms of behavior, but she has been nesting on and off for 2.5 days including two overnights. I...
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    blood on perch - how to best clean?

    Hi All - my sweet Cookies n Cream (named Cookie - creative, I know...) tore off a toenail. We brought her inside, cleaned the wound, put antiseptic on it and put her in a hospital crate for the night. Problem is, there is blood all over the perches. What is the best method to clean blood off...
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    Dust Bath Too Dusty?

    Hi All! Our dust bath consists of dirt and I have added "dust bath" (wood ash/DE product) here and there but even without that added in, our dust baths seem TOO dusty! We have an area of our coop that is 4x4 beams filled up with loose dirt so that they have a nice plush place to bathe separate...
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    cage bottom for broody hen

    Hi All - I am having a tougher time than usual breaking my broody hen. Usually the cool water bath does the trick but with temps in the 40s I won't do that. So....for the first time, I have to try the wire-bottom cage. Here is my question. How is that not cruel - doesn't it hurt their feet...
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    twitchy chicken

    Here's a weird one.....we have a cream legbar who has always had a head twitch. We have had her now for two years and she has had it ever since she was young. She is perfectly healthy, lays daily, great coloring in her comb so she is not sick but it almost seems like she has a "tick" or like...
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    will my cockerel get more gentle at mating?

    Hi All This is my second accidental rooster. My first one was really rough on the hens and constantly. It was obvious that I had to get rid of him and luckily I have a farm not to far away who will take them. This latest one is now 4+ months old and has been jumping on the hens to mate for a...
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    SORRY two posts today - forgive me (bullying at bedtime)

    Is it normal for the bedtime pecking-order routine to be SO violent? I have a few who are really mean - one in particular - at bedtime and goes out of her way to try to peck others passing underneath or looking for a place to perch, I have also added 4 to my flock (in July as babies) so they...
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    experience with Fibro Easter Egger temperment?

    Hello - well it did turn out that Wednesday, our fibro easter egger, is a he, not a she. I still have PTSD from our last and only other rooster who was an Easter Egger (from what I read docile) - He was not aggressive towards humans but was REAALLY bad with the hens. He would stand outside the...
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    Is she a rooster?😂🤣

    We got four baby chicks on July 5 and they were all supposedly females. One of them is much bigger than the rest, and the feather pattern looks different than any of the hens that I’ve ever had. I can’t really tell if the comb is three bridges or one, but can anybody gets from these photos? They...
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    12 week old, roosting outside

    We have four pullets (? 12 weeks old) that we raised with a brooder outside in our run. they have been outside their whole lives pretty much, they no longer use the Brooder, but they still refuse to perch inside the coop. I keep moving them in every night. And then, every night they go up onto...
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    chicks eating oyster shells

    Hey all - I switched over from chick/layer feed to all flock (flock raiser) for my flock that has 7 week old chicks mixed with adults. I put out oyster shells for my grown up hens and the chicks love it! They want to chow down on it! I think it is deadly for them to have too much calcium and...
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