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    Overly vigorous young roo

    9 hens. 1 roo. All about 1 yr old. I think his rooberty mating is a bit too vigorous. Is this bad enough, to require separation during feather recovery? I have never trimmed his nails or spurs. His spurs aren't "sharp", per se, but they seem like they're getting long enough that I ought to...
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    Dark spots on rooster's comb and wattles. Frostbite?

    Could use a helping hand (or eyes). Is this frostbite? I live in Central TX so it's not that cold, but when it was below freezing for about half a week, all of my birds refused to go in their coop until I tucked them in at night, so they probably got exposed to more cold than they should have...
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    0 to 10 in 72 hrs. A chicken math story, continued.

    I was recently made aware of this forum and figured today was a great day to move our story here. This is Angela. The resident Queen Bee of our flock was the first to lay, and has been an absolute unit. 66 eggs in 66 days on the same day that our flock reached egg 333. Angela, we salute you.
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    Chickens stopped going into coop at night

    My flock put itself to bed after about a week, but then they stopped doing it and now I have to put them to bed by hand every night. To my untrained eyes, the coop isn't that dirty or smelly (plenty of pellets and whatnot) and they certainly still go inside to use the nesting boxes every day. I...
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    Gerbil Food for chickens?

    I inherited half a bag of gerbil food. Is this safe to give chickens? I wanted to try and use it to lure them into the coop at night and/or as scratch snacks.. They will still be primarily eating a nutritionally balanced chicken feed...
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    Recommended Space in Tractor

    I'm thinking of supplementing my coop & run with a tractor for temporary grazing. How much room would you recommend per chicken if they are only going to be in there for maybe 3-4 hours max? Just trying to get an idea of how big I should make it and/or how many chickens get to go "on vacation"...
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    Gravity Feeder Modification

    My growing flock started regularly unscrewing the bottom to their mini gravity feeders. This is my attempt to combat the situation. Thought I might share the idea. My plan is to eventually replace them with an in-coop vertical PVC Tube Feeder (purely for supplemental feeding) and maybe a treadle...
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    Clerestory Roof Overhangs

    I'm in the process of designing my open wall coop and I was thinking a clerestory roof might satisfy my desire for ventilation out the top. Any/all constructive criticism is appreciated! A ridge vent would probably be the most straightforward way to do this, but as long as I cut all of my pieces...
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    Plans for a new backyard coop/run build

    Hi all, hoping to get some advice before I start doing any real construction. After buying a bunch of items that were both probably too expensive and insufficient for my flock's needs, I realized that I needed to add quite a bit more run space to hit the suggested benchmarks that everyone was...
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    Hardware Cloth Apron Design for Corners

    Can someone share how they are building hardware cloth aprons around corners? Trying to figure out how how to efficiently get this done without wasting a ton of hardware cloth by doubling up or making 1000 cuts.
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    Has anyone successfully built a coop/run around an existing tree?

    I've got a spot picked up for my chickens that's nice and shady, but I'd like to include this oak tree that's growing almost horizontally. Any ideas on how I could incorporate it safely without ruining the integrity of my boundaries? I think the tree is likely if minimal value to the chickens...
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    Chicken Math is real. 0 to 10 in 72 hrs.

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? While we've joked about having our own supply of fresh eggs, we never planned to raise chickens. As of last Friday we're now backyard chicken farmers(well garage, for now)! Here's our timeline: Thu: Our older child's class hatched 6...
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