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    Hen won't open eyes and can barely balance

    I have a RIR hen that's in a bad way. Maybe starting a week or two ago I noticed that she didn't really roam around with the other hens. She would just stand still with her head sucked down looking like a little ball of feathers and seemed pretty sleepy. She's a little smaller than the others...
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    Free feeding versus rationed feeding? Health issues?

    I was just talking with a co-worker who was interested in getting chickens herself, and she was somewhat suprised that I let my chickens free feed as opposed to rationing out how much they get. She had heard that chickens can overeat themselves to an unhealthy weight or even to death. I'm...
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    Do the eggs get bigger over time?

    Of my four hens I now have three that have started laying eggs within the last three weeks. All three are laying what I would consider to be small/medium eggs. Do they tend to get bigger as things become more regular?
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    My first egg!

    I finally got my first egg from my little flock! If I add it all up I got that egg for the bargin price of around $400 It tasted pretty good, and my two year old flat gobbled it up and asked for more. Now here's the question. I have two nesting boxes in their coop and I recently put some...
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    Chickens not interested in dried meal worm treats

    Do other find that their chickens like the dried meal worm treats you can buy from the feed store? I got a bag a while back but my chickens never seemed to interested or excited about them. Do they tend to prefer the live ones since they're move around and trigger their predator instinct? I...
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    Hens ignoring their roost and sleeping in a pile in the corner

    I have four hens all about 12 weeks old and when I check on them at night it seems like they're always just sleeping/resting in a pile in the corner of my coop. I have a roost built out of a 2" round post raised up about 6-8" off the floor depending on the litter depth (I built it out of one of...
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    19 Gauge hardware cloth strong enough?

    So I had made a post a few days ago asking if people thought basic poultry netting was strong enough to hold up to foxes and raccoons. Everyone did a good job of putting the fear in me, so I just got back from the hardware store with some 1/2" mesh 19 gauge hardware cloth. Now my next question...
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    Is poultry netting strong enough?

    Hopefully I can set the stage well enough here...I'm brand new to keeping chickens and built a A fram coop with a fully enclosed section and open-air run part. The outdoor part is 5' long with 2x4's making up the triangles on the ends and 2x2's in the middle for support. Then I just covered...
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    What do people do with pine shavings?

    All, I'm pretty new to the chicken game and I'm currently using pine wood shavings in my coop. I'm curious as to what others who use wood shavings do with them after a clean out. I'm not very experienced with compost, and I'm not sure if it's too much wood to try and turn into...
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