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    FYI for sweet Pdz users.

    Just thought id give a to anyone who uses this stuff. Wilco sells the small coop refresher bag, 10 pounds for 14.99 or 1.49 a pound. Or if you use the horse version it’s 24.99 for 40 pounds! Or .62 cents a pound. It’s the exact same stuff. Bigger bag different picture. Ingredient list the...
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    Bark chips

    Anyone have experience using just bark chips instead of wood chips? How’d you like it? Think it would be a good alternative? Right now I use pellets on both ends of the run, the enclosed/covered side has pellets and straw and the open rained on side has just pellets although it gets straw...
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    Rotating hens that are all the same age.

    Advice for how I’m going to rotate my hens, I have 7 hens all of them were last may chicks. 5 of them started laying in the fall, I have two that have yet to lay and still have no physical changes suggesting they will start soon. I need ideas of how I should rotate these girls out due to all...
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    Blood

    Looks like a bird pooped one spot of blood?? Perfect splatter. What’s your thoughts???? Happened sometime this evening. Still a little wet went I went out to make sure all went in before my door shut. First time I’ve ever seen weird like this. Except the brown foamy poop I see every now and then...
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    Exhaust fan or handful of vent covers??

    Hello all. Redesigning a few things after replacing panels of the coop. Should I invest in an exhaust fan and let that do the trick on keeping air flow and moisture out?? If so what one do you have or suggest (I’d like it to be made for outdoors with the internals covered along with a safety...
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    How do you do it or what do you recommend?

    I have a short fence on one side of my yard and that I share with the neighbor. Chickens like to jump on top of it. One time I chased a bird back over to my side. Usually if I see one on the fence I walk out and light tap it on tail to get it back on ground. Is there something I could put there...
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    Who’s gonna lay next. The race is on!

    I have a green eggs coming from the first Bird shown, started last Wednesday. I have two more birds that are getting big wattles and combs! Who do you guys think is gonna lay first between dinky and scuttle?!?! My other five still have your normal sized young bird combs. Picture 1...
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    What is this spot?

    I have 8 hens I acquired right around the time they turned 4 months old so I was told. I’ve had them for just a few days shy of 4 weeks. I got my first egg today, a little thing, greenish-blueish. It was broken ( i need to throw some fake eggs or golf balls in the nesting box since it was on the...
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    Scratch grains in coop?!?

    Larger coop with deep bedding (mix of pine pellets and straw) My chickens go into the coop quite often and rearrange and kick around all the bedding and get to the floor and make piles or push it all to the sides. Noticed it a lot more when it was dumping rain, they spent a lot more time in the...
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    Why does the poop look like this?

    Why is the chickens poop weird like this. They are eating drinking and acting normally roosting and everything seems normal.
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    Can you ID the 8 of us?

    Can you ID all eight of them? I always forget what I was told and need to write them down. Left to right. 1. Black and white speckle 2. Dark one with green on neck 3. Light tan 4. Dark, looks like 2 but has red neck 5. Gold 6. Another dark looks like 2 and 4 but silver neck. 7. Black and white...
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    Weird chickens or just being dumb?

    I have a larger coop with 5 nesting boxes and 2 roosting bars the entire length of the coop and an attached run that is 8x16 feet. I have 8 hens. Two nights ago, I woke up at 330 am to go to work and one chicken was in the run all by itself laying on the ground. I watched all 8 go in about...
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