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  1. CarlaCo

    Chicken poo as fertilizer

    Has anyone successfully (hopefully easily) used their chicken's poop as a fertilizer or their lawn? I'm thinking of making a quick manure tea with recent poo using about 1-10 poo to water ratio in a five gallon bucket and then using the liquid after a couple days to spread on my lawn using my...
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    Poopy butt or infection?

    Hi all. One of our 5 girls has had diarrhea on and off and a poopy butt. I finally help in holding her while I clipped away as much as I could and asked a bit. We have no experience with this. She even squirted some right out as we worked. Yuck! I did not see any bugs or mites. But as you can...
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    Missing feathers molting or illness.

    My son has 4 Rhode Island Red chickens about 1 1/2 years old which live in an eglu and have a large open air pen. They seem to be suffering a lot of feather loss, one more than others but all are starting to show bare spots and he fears it could be illness. They were treated twice with...
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    Omlet auto door - Door fault"

    Hi having a problem with our Omlet door, which is displaying "door fault" message and no longer knows when it is closed. Anyone have that problem or any solutions? We cleaned, did factory reset, changed batteries etc. no luck.
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    Bulk seed

    We are looking into mixing our own feed using this fella’s formula on a YouTube video: Premium whole oats 30lb Whole corn 20lbs. Black oil sunflower seeds 20lb Split Peas 10lbs Flax seed 5lbs Add DE as well maybe a cup? So we see that TS is where we can source the first three ingredients...
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    Caring for their feet

    Hi all. I will try to post pics later but I have a question about my chickens feet health. We raised 12 from day 2 and they are now 15 weeks old. We split the flock with my son and each of us took 5 hens and one roo. His are in an eglu but free ranging in his fenced in suburban lawn. Mine are in...
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    Metal run in the snow?

    Hi all, trying to solve one potential problem at a time. We bought this metal run for our coop. I bought some tough tarp, but I can see how snow may cave in the wide expanse under the dome where there is little support. Does anyone who lives where it snows have a metal run? What kind of things...
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    Bags of mulch under the coop?

    Hi all. I have an idea for the winter, which can be pretty brutal here. Our tractor coop is about 14” off the ground. They love going under there, but I’m not keen on trying to keep it clean under there during snow and cold, and it’s difficult to catch or corral a wayward chick. So I know our...
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    Add door to metal run?

    How do you add a 2x4’door to the other side of a run like this one. I’m confused cause everything I see involves wood but this is a galvanized metal frame. How can it be done. I want to have the ability to attach to the coop or be free and move about the yard after the chickens go in for the day.
  10. CarlaCo

    Need roof over 4x5 run

    Hi all. Still problem solving as we go on this very pretty, well-constructed, over-priced, POORLY designed, supposedly Amish-built coop. (I should make that my tag line😂) We had several days of heavy rain, and I had to concoct a roof over the mini 4x5 run so the food stayed dry and the babies...
  11. CarlaCo

    Looking for extra run

    Hi all. I started a thread and we are receiving loads of help for the many issues with our well-built but stupidly designed supposedly Amish-built coop by HenHouse collection. I’m starting this thread so it’s all about the run room in the winter. We haven’t decided if we should free range or...
  12. CarlaCo

    Is my coop all wrong?!

    I’m new here and would appreciate any advice or help. Our chicks are 4 weeks old. We are getting the overpriced coop ready for them and I’m panicked as I notice (too late) bad design. Background info: We will have one rooster and five hens- all Rhode Island Reds. We live in Upstate NY and our...
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