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I have a broody Columbia Wyandotte, I have been putting her in chicken 'jail' during the day in the run for two days now, i.e. in a dog cage with a hardware wire floor slightly elevated with food and drink. Normally I would leave here there 24x7 but it's been cold down to the...
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It's the winter doldrums here in CO and we have some pecking issues when the girls go to roost. We have two partridge Wyandotte's who are dominant and tend to peck the heck out of everyone when getting settled for the night. It is usually short lived but one of the Columbia...
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This is our first winter having chickens in Golden CO, our flock is just ten months, one being a barred rock. We just had three days of - 8 to -10 weather here and on the last day of the cold snap the barred rock started showing signs of what I think is mild frostbite on her comb -...
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So thrilled to be a part of this community! We are new to chickens and brought our girls home in mid-March. We live along the front range of Colorado. We have 7 chickens of various breeds from barred rock to Columbia and partridge Wyandotte, a Rhode Island white and Rhode...
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We are new to having our backyard chickens, they are 8 months old now (6 of them) and we live in CO. All of the girls seem to be happy and doing well, we feed an organic 18%-layer feed available to them in their feeder in the run at all times, as well as oyster shells in a bowl...