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    My hen is doing better!

    My poor sickly hen! Sat. dad and I took all the wood shavings out, and put in sweet smelling straw, and I keep feeding them yogurt with spinach and add some corn meal and dad bought some pork and bone meal. She has really perked up! She has not layed any yet, but I keep them in my...
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    2nd hen dying

    Last week, one died, and right now another is dying. She had yellow custerd poo this morning. I do not know whats wrong, and my father is blaming me because he said we have no rooster, and the other hens are picking feathers. I can not get him in here to look at BYC being he is in his 70's and...
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    Hens being pecked too.

    Ny hens have been pecked on their backs. One Isa Brown, whom I call "queen bee" has no missing feathers. All the others have missing feathers. I lost one girl this week. She was ok, and one day I found her, huddled looking, back in the corner, eyes closed. She didnt lay any eggs that day. In the...
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    Growing grass in the run with the girls there

    We put the girls in a new run last year full of grass, and in no time it was gone and down to dirt. Since the snow has gone, its a big mud hole. How can we plant grass seed in there? What method is the best? And what fast growing good seed can you all recommend?
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    My heart is breaking

    My 6 wonderful Isa Brown hens are not not doing too good. I started getting some bloody eggs. Not all of them. They were having all their eggs in a plastic tote, and were doing fine. Something changed. They started having them under the ramp that leads to the outside (on the inside of the coop)...
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    No eggs

    Every morning I go to find 5 already layed by my 6 Isa Browns (one likes to lay later). This morning there is nothing. They are not molting, and seem the same any other other day. They will be a yr old ether the last week of Janueary or February. So I really dont know what to think.
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    Candeling dark eggs

    I have a huge dark Isa brown egg. I dont have a rooster, so we have eggs to eat only. How do i candle a dark egg to see how many yolks exsist in it? Hope someone could be able to help me. I looked about candleing, and could not find anything about how to candle a brown egg...
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    Coop Help with chickens for the first winter. Lots of questions!

    My dad built a shed/coop (lean two). Half shed, but not developed yet and a fenced in coop on the other side. 1.We have one window in the coop side that I have cracked open for air. 2. We use wood shavings on a cemant floor, and it gets so dusty in there. I am allergic to dust, so I battle...
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    Coop and Run in winter time

    I have never had chickens (Iza Browns) in the winter. We made a shed (like a lean two roof) this summer. Insulated, cement floor, window with screen and a pull up-drop down door at night with a rope and pulleys. Its about 52 degrees in there all the time. We have a heat lamp, two light bulbs...
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    Trying to give my father information

    This is the first winter we have had chickens. And thanks to many of you, I have a lot of great information. My father is getting old, and set in his ways. He talks to a lot of famer folk around us for his ideas. I am trying to make him understand about a air vent or exhaust fan in the coop. I...
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    2 missing girls

    Last night we got home late, and I go out to close the their door. There was only 4 girls in their coop and 2 were missing . So I ran back into the house and dad and I got our flash lights and went back out. Here they were, down in the corner of the run. So I got them up and started to...
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    New coop and winter coop.

    Hi, This is the first winter I will have chickens. We have a cement floor. What is best for them? Should I put linolium (sp) on top of it? Will the girls be ok jumping down on that? Also, how do I clean the coop in the middle of the winter? Thank you.
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    Mean Isa Brown Rooster- At wits end!!!!

    I need help please-as soon as possible. The Isa Brown rooster that I got, is tearing the feathers out of the girl's back end. He picks at them if they are laying down, he picks at them as they are going into the roost. I caught him taking his foot raking over another hen laying on the ground...
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    Chickens and music

    Its cute and funny. I have one of the satlilite stations playing soft music, and they are sitting around calm, and seem to love it!! Has anyone else ever expierenced that that their chicks?
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    Taking the roo away from the hens

    My Isa Browns were born about the last week of February. Since I am still very new to the chicken world, the roo has a habit of pecking on the hens. It has got to a point, that when the hens are resting on the roosts, he pecks whet ever is facing him. This morning I had a egg with blood on it...
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    Please Help, My rooster is pulling hen feathers out!!! Why???

    My Isa Brown rooster pulled all the white feathers out of one hens back end. She now has no white feathers, just the red feathers. Now he is doing that to another hen. They dont seem to run from him, jump just a little, and they dont mind being around him. Is that some kind of affection...
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    Roosters/Hens pecking other hens

    Yesterday it was repeated. I can not tell them apart, they all look the same. Someone's white long feather was pulled out of them. They were parading around the run with it and trying to eat it. Which they did, and the rooster was busy pecking a hen that was laying in a pit. I can not watch them...
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    Cooking Isa brown Eggs

    Hi, I have question and some help please, for all the Isa Brown owners and egg cookers. I am trying to make hard boiled eggs, and I have a problem peeling the shell off. When I peel it, the white comes along with it. I dont know if its because they are fairly new layers (as of the 10 of...
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    Chicken Behavior

    It will probably take me for ever to figure out why yesterday the rooster and some of the hens pecked at that poor hen on the ground in a hole, and today, they are as cool as a cucumber. ???
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    Rooster Question-Thank you

    Do roosters crow in the middle of the night? Ours has already. I thought he always went outside to check if the area was clear, but not everytime.
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