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    FINALLY got down to only one roo!

    We hatched 4 eggs in the fall and integrated them with 9 girls after dispatching the only roo. He was super aggressive! Then, three of those babies were boys. Ugh! We were actually praying there would be 3 girls and 1 boy, but NOPE! 3 boys & 1 sweet little girl. So, as discussed in a few...
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    Suncast Storage for food and meds?

    Merry Christmas, y'all! We're running out of room in our storeroom and I thought that getting all my chicken food, vitamins, calcium and meds (like my hen healer and stuff) out of there, and would be better off in a shed. But don't know which is the best. I looked at Suncast small plastic...
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    30° and molting!

    My 21 month old girls are going through their very first, adult, molt and it's getting down to 30° tonight for about 4 hours. Will they be okay? 2 RIRs and 7 BRs. Then I have 4 babies who are fully feathered out and 14 weeks old. Their coop has 2 small windows above everybody's heads so...
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    Broody or sick?

    My flock is still pretty young. About 20 months. Today, I threw some BSF larvae in for them and usually, even my girls who are trying to lay will also come running out for their treats. But this time, one of them never came out for her evening treats. So I went in and checked all the laying...
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    What breed is she?

    So, my sister lives in town and my my bro-in-law called me and told me that my 73 year old sister is running down the street, barefoot, chasing a chicken! I was like..."what on earth?!" In short order, he said it's in the cage now. Can we bring it out there to y'all? I said, "Yeah! See you...
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    So, temps went from 80s to 40s all of a sudden.

    I've read a bunch of posts on temps for coops. We're in North Central Texas and weather swings are vicious on us, but I think the babies will be fine. But wanna be sure. It's dry out, we have sand right now and will be adding dry leaves as winter approaches. The hatched on March 1st and I...
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    Well...my redneck AC is a bust!

    In this EXTREMELY EXESSIVE North Central Texas heat that has been well over 110° every day for weeks, the fan that I set up to blow through the cooler with holes in it and frozen gel packs was only blowing cool for maybe 30 minutes because even the air and wind is hot!!! So I opened up...
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    Redneck AC for chickens!!!

    So it's gotten up to 113° here in North Central Texas already and been over 100° for 5 weeks, with a little rain last night. But being born and raised here, I knew that rain storm was just gonna make it even hotter today! And it did! I have a fan and mister in the chicken run, at separate...
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    Solved Article Posting? HELP!

    I have been trying to post an article that I wrote but can't get it right, so now it just looks all messed up. I've emailed the "contact" email to ask if they can just delete it all for me and I can try and start over, but to no avail. Someone out there must know something about this. Can...
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    Eeewww! SPIDERS!

    I read a bunch of the threads about spiders in the coop and decided that I'm gonna use my homemade bug spray in there. I put lavender and peppermint oil in filtered water and sprayed the wood beams and joists with it. It's 100% natural and it's got decent airflow in there. But I'm wondering...
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    What's TOO hot?

    So we're new to this. We got day-old hatchlings on March 2nd of this year. We have 3 RIRs, one of which is our rooster and 6 BRs, all girls. They have 200 sq ft of what we call the big run and about another 25 sq ft in the little run. It's already hitting triple digits in North Central Texas...
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    Foamy, almost white poop?

    My rooster is pooping thick, foamy whitish-yellowish stuff. So I have questions. 1. Is corrid going to fix that? 2. Been giving a small waterer with nutri-drench every day because one of the hens was laying eggs with super thin shells. So is that possibly causing it for the boy? 3. Could I...
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    My rooster crowed!!!

    My baby is all grown up. But I wasn't there to hear it because of stupid work. Lol
  14. Atchurch

    Super thin shells! Not anymore!

    One of the two 18 month old girls was laying super thin shelled eggs. The last one of those broke just while my husband was picking it up but the yolk and white was fine. So I started researching like crazy. Common consensus was two fold: not enough calcium and not enough vitamin D. So I...
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    Woohoo!!! INTEGRATING!

    A few weeks ago, I had no idea what we were doing. Thanks to all of you guys' advice and tips, they're all together and behaving well! We built them uneven parallels and they like it! Thank you all! P.S.-we will still build the beach hut at some point and this will go into the other run space...
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    Ugh! Integrating?!

    I've been reading through the other threads but not really seeing any definitive things. Some say put them together at night, some say let them all get close to the same size, etc. But for 3 days, we've had parallel runs and I tried to let the two, older, newest, female additions into the big...
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    Our new girls!

    We got the two new BRs yesterday after church and we figured it would be a day or two before they would lay an egg just because of the trauma of moving to a new place, but they laid eggs! Not in the nesting boxes. Lol. In the little coop, though.
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    When do I switch to layer feed?

    I'm back!! Lol. My babies hatched on March 1st so they're a little over 10 weeks old now. I have one rooster and 6 hens. When should I start getting them off their starter crumbles and start incorporating layer food? And I'm assuming the layer feed is fine for my boy, too. Correct? Also...
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    TICKS!!!

    I've been reading other posts about ticks. They just got bad out here at the lake all of a sudden. Like, the last few days! So will my chickens eat them or not? We have a lot of cedar trees (which ticks hate) but they're coming from the oaks. I use neem oil on our edible plants but I doubt...
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    Roost too high! Not sure how to fix.

    Anybody got a good idea for my new coop's top roosting bar? They get up there okay, but I have to pick them up and put them on the ground every morning. I can see them trying to figure out how to navigate the descent. I want a ramp or something to assist them, instead of me doing it for them...
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