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    The stink of sand, and what to do with the yard

    Two issues here, but they're related. For reference, we have 3 hens. The "run": (8ft x 5ft) is attached to the henhouse and fully secure. They ONLY spend time locked in the run during the time it takes for us to wake up and let them into the yard for the whole day. We filled it with...
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    A cat nearly scared my chickens over the fence

    Scenario: 3 hens, ranging 17-20 weeks old. They live in a run attached to a henhouse, but we let them out in the morning the roam the back yard while we eat breakfast out there. Yard is fenced with a normal-height wooden fence, but there's also a hip-height chainlink fence *inside* that...
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    Pullets maybe not eating the bigger corn pieces?

    So, our chicks turned 6 weeks old this weekend (well, two are 6 weeks old, one is 10 weeks old). We ran out of chick feed and the local feed store recommended the next step up (pullet developer I think it was) rather than buy more chick food. My wife got the 20# bag of organic, FWIW. Anyway...
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    New coop and run - the two areas getting too much poop!

    The henhouse and run we just built has a couple areas attracting too much poop - or rather, poop I don't know how to clean up! The first area is at the top of the henhouse where the ladder leads up to from the run. We put a platform up there and the chickens (two 5-week-olds and one...
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    Have to redesign the roost

    So, I thought this 2" diameter dowel going across the henhouse like this would work OK, but now that I see what actually happens when the birds are on it, I see a major logistical issue. See photo below. This is the coop mid-construction, BTW, before I finished it. The nest box hangs off the...
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    Plymouth barred rock - another pullet/roo thread

    Well, we're new chicken owners - we just built our coop over the last 3 weekends. We got two chicks that were one week old (a Buff Orpington and a Plymouth Rock Barred) and then an 8-week old Ameracauna yesterday. All were sold as females. It's the Plymouth barred rock that I'm wondering...
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