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    Need suggestions to keep coop warm in winter!

    Hello! This is our first winter with our flock. We live in northeast Texas and although it typically doesn’t get as cold as it does for a lot of people the last few years have been very cold for several weeks with rolling blackouts, ice and snow. Plus the wind can be brutal. We bought a 8x12...
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    How long can you keep chickens in the coop

    Hello all! I have a question regarding keeping chickens cooped for a few weeks. We just bought an 8x12 shed for our 14 chickens and plan on building a chicken tunnel to their 16x20 run. The original coop was in the run and we had to take a wall down and the hardware cloth off the top to get it...
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    Impacted crop

    Hello I need help with caring for a 4 week old chick that had an impacted crop. I found her this morning with a very large hard knot in her crop (she was fine last night as far as I can tell) so I took her and fed her small amount of coconut oil and did massages every 30 minutes and it appears...
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    Baby chicks eating pine dust

    Hello I am new to raising chickens and have 14 almost 4 week old chicks. I noticed that they are now doing a lot of scratching in the pine shavings and appear to be eating the dust as well as spilled crumbles. I read that you can give them a little grit in their food if they are doing this so I...
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