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  1. ajay

    Flies everywhere! (except for the coop)

    Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with the flies? My girls free range during large parts of the day which has attracted a TON of flies. It's not as easy as throwing down some DE, since the poop is scattered across our backyard and the flies are just going everywhere. Oddly enough, they are...
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    Need some help with my EE's please

    I have two EE's--Tweety and Ellie. Tweety I always thought was a girl, but her comb has reddened a lot lately and it has me second guessing myself. Ellie...I just don't know. She's different than Tweety, her comb is less red, but it is bigger. Her legs are bigger. Her body is bigger. But I...
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    What am I doing wrong? Or am I just being paranoid?

    So, we don't have run. Our chickens free range around our backyard. Inside our coop, we have sand. We raised the food in the coop a bit to help with spills, but apparently not enough. The chicks billed out most of their food from the feeder spilling it all over the sand coop floor. Less...
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    Do comb colors change throughout the day?

    I could swear that my EE's comb colors change throughout the day. One minute they look really red and then they go back to looking pale. This doesn't seem to be an issue with my Wellies. Am I seeing things???
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    Pullet hurt leg, now has curled toes...Infection???

    My little Lucy hurt her leg--she was attacked by my dog. She spent a few days not being able to stand or move much at all. After a few days of rest, she started hobbling, a big improvement. She was moving around fairly well despite her hobble. I put her in the coop for one night with the...
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    What a brave little chick and an amazing little flock!

    My little Wellie chicken, Lucy, 6 weeks (I think!) hurt her leg about 5 days ago. My dog went after the chicks and cornered her. She hurt her leg badly and even her wing seems a little off. We have felt her legs and checked her range of motion and all seems to be well, but she can't put any...
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    In or Out?

    I have a little chicken, 6 or 7 weeks, who hurt her leg pretty badly about 5 days ago. I don't know if it is broken or not (I can't feel or see a break), but she hobbles something awful. She hops on one foot and can't roost yet. Once she got hurt, I moved her back into the house so she could...
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    Leg Issues--Video included

    This is Lucy. She was cornered by my dog a few days ago. She is standing for a minute or two at a time now which is a huge improvement. She is eating and drinking. My concern is her leg. It looks crooked. When she stands, her bad foot turns in and rests on her good foot. I took a video of...
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    My hen was attacked. She can't stand up. :(

    I let my dog out with the chickens today and he cornered one of them. He must have had her by the leg/wing, because she is basically gimpy on one side of her body. I brought her back into the house in our dog cage with some soft bedding and water and food, but she is just panting and laying...
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    No girls, this is not a roost...

    This is where I found my girls getting ready to settle for the night They are now in their coop, thank you very much.
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    Food everywhere! Do they need more?

    I am in between feeders right now. My chickens have outgrown the small chick feeders, but my baby pig feeder hasn't come in yet. The baby chick feeder ends up taken apart and the food all over the sand in the coop, so I started just giving them a pie plate of food...which ends up on the floor...
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    First Night in the Coop! I'm so...everything!

    After a day roaming around the backyard, I was getting ready to put the chicks back in their brooder, when I noticed how flithy it was. Rather than move them back in, I put them in our coop (a place they have hung out in off and on over the past week and a half during the day.) So, now they...
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    24 hour food vs. food in am & pm--Does it make a difference?

    I was at the feed store today and spoke with one of the guys who worked there who had 40 chickens in his flock. He told me that you should feed your chickens 2x a day (morning and night) vs. giving chickens unrestricted access to food. He said that they will overfeed and then production will...
  14. ajay

    How big of a feeder/waterer do I need?

    How big of a waterer/feeder do I need for 4 chickens? The guy at the feed store recommended a 30 pound feeder, knowing that we might get two more chickens in the near future. How long would it take before I had to refill it again? My hubby designed & built a beautiful coop, but putting two of...
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    Question about Sand...

    My husband designed our coop and built it before we had our chicks, but now that they are getting ready to move in and have been spending some time in there during the day, I have some questions. The coop frame was built on brick pavers that have been covered in sand. The nesting boxes and...
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    Please tell me she is a hen!

    This is my 4 week old Welsummer, Ellie. She's a doll, but from day 1, I have been worried that she is a he. She came out of the gate a little more aggressive than the others and she has massive feet compared to our other Welsummer. I am hoping that she is a hen, but I don't know enough about...
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    I'm not sure about my dog and the chicks...ideas?

    Hi! We have four 3-week old chicks, 2 Welsumers and 2 EE. For the first three weeks, my dog, who has been with us for 11 years, completely ignored them. He came up once to smell the bedding, food etc. and then walked away and rarely came back. Today when the chicks were out walking around...
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